One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
~By Moliere ~
The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.
~By Andrew Shue ~
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
~By George Murray ~
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
~By Jerry Brown ~
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
~By James Merrill ~
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 ~
You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
~By Dennis Farina ~
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
~By Ted Rall ~
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
~By Jacques Delors ~
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 ~
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
~By Raymond Berry ~
I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
~By Erno Rubik ~
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
~By Beverly Jones ~
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
~By James Earl Jones ~
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
~By Eric Bogosian ~
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
~By Layne Staley ~
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
~By John Lennon ~
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~By Septima Clark ~
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
~By Bob Dole ~
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
~By Roland Joffe ~
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 ~
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
~By Merton Miller ~
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
I want to get people thinking.
~By James De La Vega ~
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
~By Jane Taylor ~
The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.
~By Charlie Daniels ~
I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.
~By Gus Van Sant ~
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
~By Richard Bach ~
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
~By Tom Araya ~
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
~By John Zorn ~
When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
~By Oskar Schindler ~
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.
~By John Tesh ~
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
~By Jan Morris ~
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.
~By Leo Strauss ~
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
~By Paul Graham ~
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
~By Benjamin Netanyahu ~
I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
~By Claire Danes ~
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
~By Mary Ann Mobley ~
We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.
~By Phil Simms ~
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
~By Barack Obama ~
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
~By Henry Ford ~
I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
~By Glenn Close ~
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 ~
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
~By Nina Simone ~
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
~By Barbara Taylor Bradford ~
I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.
~By Leelee Sobieski ~
I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
~By David M. Brown ~
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
~By George Lloyd ~
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
~By Donald Trump ~
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
~By Thomas Paine ~
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 ~
In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
~By Eugene Levy ~
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
~By Gil Gerard ~
We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
~By David Antin ~
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
~By Christopher Bond ~
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
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 ~
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
~By Bell Hooks ~
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
~By Geraldine Chaplin ~
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
~By Arthur Bloch ~
All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
~By Linda Fiorentino ~
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
~By Mark Messier ~
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
~By Don Knotts ~
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
~By Walter Lang ~
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 ~
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
~By Charlie Haden ~
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
~By Steve Largent ~
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.
~By Puff Daddy ~
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
~By Andrew Young ~
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