I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
~By Francesca Annis ~
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
~By Anthony Head ~
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
~By John Templeton ~
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
~By Charley Pride ~
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
~By Ava Gardner ~
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
~By Arthur Baker ~
The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.
~By Cliff Richard ~
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
~By James Bovard ~
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
~By Oliver Stone ~
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
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 ~
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
~By David Smith ~
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
~By William James ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.
~By Brandon Routh ~
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 ~
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
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 ~
As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
~By Ace Frehley ~
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
~By Damien Hirst ~
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 ~
The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.
~By Emma Anderson ~
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.
~By Marian McPartland ~
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
~By John Hartford ~
Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
~By Josh McDowell ~
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
~By John Shirley ~
As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
~By John Travolta ~
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 ~
We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
~By Alex Van Halen ~
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
~By Alvin Lee ~
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
~By Claude Pepper ~
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.
~By Jane Asher ~
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
~By Garth Brooks ~
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
~By Willem de Kooning ~
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
~By Charles Kettering ~
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 ~
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
~By Richard Price ~
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 ~
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
~By David Antin ~
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
~By Alan Rickman ~
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
~By Voltaire ~
Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.
~By Robert Hofstadter ~
I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.
~By Norman Wisdom ~
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
~By Michael Palin ~
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 ~
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 ~
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
~By Terrence Howard ~
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
~By Ben Edwards ~
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
~By Rick Allen ~
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.
~By Jim Fowler ~
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.
~By Rick Yune ~
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
~By Keith Henson ~
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~By William James ~
The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
~By James Ellroy ~
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
~By Susan Taylor ~
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
~By Bill Hybels ~
I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.
~By Breckin Meyer ~
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
~By David Guterson ~
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
~By Shel Silverstein ~
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.
~By Ray Nagin ~
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
~By Alex Grey ~
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
~By Idi Amin ~
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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 ~
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
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