Thinking Quotes · Page 916

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

— Howard Rheingold

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

— Trevor Baylis

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

— Jamie O'Neill

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

— Chinua Achebe

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

— Danny Gregory

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

— Sol LeWitt

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls…

— Stephen Covey

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world.…

— Anonymous

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a…

— Daniel Pennac

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I…

— Xavier Dolan

To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change…

— Ted Trainer

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am…

— Katherine Jenkins

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a…

— Lynn Abbey

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you…

— Mike Doughty

I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many,…

— Ian Bremmer

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you…

— Arthur Miller

I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to…

— Paul Levinson

I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,…

— Wayne White

Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are…

— Ludwig von Mises

Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Sometimes, I'm thinking that if I didn't know you I would be happy without you.

— Anonymous

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

— Duncan Jones

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

— Mamoru Hosoda

I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about…

— Eva Mendes

Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.

— Thom Yorke

I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.

— Russell Simmons

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

— Bob Dylan

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the…

— Brandi Carlile

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

— Dave Hickey

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

— Anonymous

I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

— Josh Brolin

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

— Oscar Robertson

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

— Josh Lanyon