Thinking Quotes · Page 1,261

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

— Larry Wall

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

— Jane Campion

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

— Elena Anaya

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

— Beth Ditto

It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.

— David Legwand

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

— Mike Dirnt

And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition.…

— Michael Fassbender

It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do…

— Molly Antopol

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as…

— Carl Jung

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with…

— Dennis Brown

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to…

— Nguyen Quyen

Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into…

— Nicholson Baker

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will…

— Calvin Harris

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well,…

— Dale Carnegie

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.…

— Malcolm X

I think we're coming into a time where it has to do with how you stand in relationship to your own world…

— Steven C. Hayes

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when…

— Wilhelm Reich

We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and…

— Morgan Freeman

That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a…

— Gustav Vigeland

Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're…

— Stephen Covey

The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair…

— Lleyton Hewitt

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

— Don McLean

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

— Derek Bailey

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is…

— Kevin Sessums

I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process.

— Neil Cavuto

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

— Tom Peters

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

— Gish Jen

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

— Tiger Woods

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

— Tennessee Williams

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

— Hesiod

I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

— Eric Abetz

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how…

— Alain de Botton

I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different.

— Mat McNerney

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

— Hugh Hefner

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

— James F. Cooper

When you think that the road has ended, you must know that it is your ability to go beyond has ended, not…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan