Thinking Quotes · Page 476

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

— Linus Torvalds

My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple of weeks.

— Gregg Marshall

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

— Frederick Lenz

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

— Gene Robinson

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

— Emily Levine

You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

— Randy Gage

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

— Warren Zevon

I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have…

— Jeff Baxter

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I…

— Natalie Merchant

“Among the many factors that differentiate successful people from consistent failures one is paramount; when failures were sleeping, successful people where thinking!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get…

— Anonymous

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking…

— Michael Eisner

My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world.…

— Nick Sagan

We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at…

— Frederick Lenz

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would…

— Michael Franti

I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and…

— Michael J. Massimino

Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes…

— Vito Acconci

Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that…

— Roxane Gay

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to…

— Walt Disney

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in…

— James Jeans

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume…

— Sylvia Earle

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I…

— Russell Simmons

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces…

— Lucy Corin

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

— June Diane Raphael

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

— Joan Severance

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

— Brian Tracy

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

— V V Brown

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.

— Sarah Brightman

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in…

— Pusha T

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

— Anonymous

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood

I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the…

— Jim Courier

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to…

— Yukimi Nagano

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

— Pattiann Rogers

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

— Ralph Lauren

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it…

— Alicia Markova

Sometimes just thinking about a beloved dish from your past is enough to tide you over until you can have the real…

— Steve Doocy