Thinking Quotes · Page 453

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

— Martin Cooper

“I thought we might share some wine." "Thinking doesn’t become you.”

— Matt Tomerlin

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

— Charles Dickens

Don't ever think that no one cares about you, for there is someone out there that would rather die than live without…

— Anonymous

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

— Anonymous

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

— Alice Sebold

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll…

— Miranda Lambert

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

— James Altucher

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others,…

— Anonymous

What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother.…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I…

— Arnold Palmer

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to…

— Amy Sedaris

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family…

— Nick Moran

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back…

— Jack Handey

Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore.…

— Sebastian Janikowski

Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by…

— Zoe Valdes

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How…

— Sarah Ruhl

I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe…

— Peace Pilgrim

Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the…

— Lindsey Haun

Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more…

— Rick Perry

If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and…

— Laila Ali

I'm one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story…

— Donald E. Westlake

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the…

— Billy Collins

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

— Ernest Hemingway

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

— Werner Herzog

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

— Alanis Morissette

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

— Ice T

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have…

— Linda Evangelista

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

— Sandra Bullock

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

— Doc Watson

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

— Steven Morrissey

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

— Ronnie Spector

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my…

— Maria V. Snyder

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

— Jon Lovitz

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

— Molly Ringwald

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

— Demetri Martin

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

— Amy Poehler