Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
~By Dean Kamen ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.
~By Brooke Burke ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
~By Jane Campion ~
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
~By Gay Talese ~
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
~By Max Muller ~
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.
~By Edith Rogers ~
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
~By Voltaire ~
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
~By John Breaux ~
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
~By Billy Joel ~
It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
~By Mick Mars ~
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
~By Bill Maher ~
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
~By Niels Bohr ~
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
~By Paul Lynde ~
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
~By Casey Stengel ~
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
~By Stone Gossard ~
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
~By John Mellencamp ~
It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
~By Albert Einstein ~
If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
~By Alexis Bledel ~
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
~By John Badham ~
For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.
~By Nick Clooney ~
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
~By Xun Zi ~
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
~By Jerry Brown ~
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
~By Lao Tzu ~
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
~By Anita Desai ~
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~By Knute Rockne ~
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
~By Larry David ~
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
~By Roland Joffe ~
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
~By Joe Strummer ~
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.
~By Roy Haynes ~
That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
~By Mary Martin ~
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
~By Bruce Lee ~
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
~By Ivor Novello ~
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
~By Avery Brooks ~
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
~By Hank Ketcham ~
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
~By James Ellroy ~
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
~By Alexandre Dumas ~
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
~By Boris Becker ~
I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.
~By Davidson Black ~
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
~By Aimee Mann ~
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
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