Thinking Quotes · Page 699

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

— Julio Cortazar

“Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.”

— Ted Agon

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

— Merrill Markoe

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

— Ariel Pink

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

— Marianne Williamson

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

— William Goldman

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can…

— Dan Colen

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of…

— Mark Messier

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

— Jeannette Walls

I think I would always tell school kids that, you know, they'd say, "When did you get interested in politics?" I said,…

— Mike Pence

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested…

— Elizabeth Neel

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being…

— Matt Taibbi

But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth…

— Moby

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate…

— Jerry Rice

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet…

— Judd Trump

Jem’s eyes had widened, and then he’d laughed, a soft laugh. “Did you think I did not know you had a secret?”…

— Cassandra Clare

Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care…

— Hillary Clinton

It's never really quiet in the Wu-Tang tour bus unless it's a certain time of day. Sometimes it's quiet, but you're not…

— GZA

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in…

— Liang Qichao

“What do you think about when you brush your teeth? Probably not brushing your teeth. You’re more likely to be thinking about…

— Daniel Z. Lieberman

When I think about him, I think about him as John and John Wick. I think of John Wick being the assassin…

— Keanu Reeves

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its…

— Anonymous

If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the…

— Tommy Wirkola

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And I said, ‘I’m thinkin’ I’ve wasted too much time thinkin’, is what I’m thinkin'.”

— Melinda Haynes

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous

I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.

— Elizabeth Lesser

I just think it's a really unique thing to women, this weird psychotic jealousy.

— Sophia Takal

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

— Jack Dorsey

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

— Nathan Lane

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language…

— Anonymous

I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out…

— Jason Wade

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

— Lloyd Alexander

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

— Barack Obama

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the…

— Natsuo Kirino

I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.

— Tequan Richmond

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip…

— Tessa Dare