Thinking Quotes · Page 927

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's…

— Brian Urlacher

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

— Daniel Kahneman

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

— John Hurt

I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

— Julian Casablancas

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

— Alain Resnais

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

— Carla Gugino

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you…

— Charleszetta Waddles

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting…

— Sam Altman

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things…

— Bruce Greenwood

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of…

— Will Self

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put…

— Shanice

If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing,…

— Nicolas Godin

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we…

— Zach Anner

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those…

— Salman Rushdie

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and…

— Octave Mirbeau

I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a…

— Robert Redford

The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner…

— Nat Hentoff

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I…

— Lorin Stein

Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and…

— Joe Flaherty

How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else.…

— Victor Pelevin

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think we're seeing in the wake of the last election that evangelicals - especially young evangelicals - are no longer inextricably…

— Kevin Roose

We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

— Rashida Jones

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

— Michael Foot

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

— Shayne Ward

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

— Luther Allison

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's…

— Malcolm X

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

— Jeb Bush

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my…

— Iman Shumpert

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in…

— Forest Whitaker

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

— Jemaine Clement

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

— Blaise Pascal

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

— Dylan Moran