Thinking Quotes · Page 649

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't…

— John Currin

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it.…

— Roy Blount, Jr

If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

— Vince Gilligan

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“how is it that he's always in my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.”

— Sanober Khan

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

— Theodor Adorno

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in…

— Giuliana Rancic

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where…

— Thomas Sowell

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want…

— Adam Haslett

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going…

— Ann Coulter

Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn…

— Hal Elrod

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet…

— Jacob Hashimoto

My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their…

— Caroline Fraser

Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a…

— Tucker Carlson

I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost…

— John Lewis

I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news…

— Anne Applebaum

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is…

— Evan Davis

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write…

— Melissa Febos

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone…

— Franz Kafka

I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel.…

— Matt Cullen

I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and…

— Jessica Valenti

The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Whenever you stop just to think, and forget why don't you ever start again?

— Denise Clark

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

— Anonymous

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

— Horace Panter

“So with that thought, I begin again—thinking to myself that sometimes . . . the only real thing is now.”

— Suzanne Young

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense,…

— Myrna Loy

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

— Kathleen Norris

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

— Anna Quindlen

It's important to engage with governments around the world in how they're thinking about AI - to help inform them.

— Jeff Dean

I don't think I'm ever more "aware" than I am right after I hit my thumb with a hammer.

— Jack Handey

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

— Flip Wilson

If Beauty is really in the eye of the beholder, how would you tell that to a blind person?

— Matthew Van Zyl

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

— Rand Paul

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.

— Visionist

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I just don't really want to settle and I don't think I should have to.

— Lauren Conrad