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 ~
Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
~By Dyan Cannon ~
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
~By Al Goldstein ~
The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
~By Erno Rubik ~
Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.
~By Ricky Skaggs ~
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 ~
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
~By Mimi Rogers ~
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 ~
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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 ~
I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
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 ~
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
~By William James ~
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
~By Will Cuppy ~
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
~By John Sladek ~
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. ~
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
~By Taylor Lautner ~
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
~By Wellington Mara ~
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
~By Robert Hass ~
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
~By David Amram ~
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
~By Naomi Judd ~
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
~By John Mellencamp ~
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
~By Shel Silverstein ~
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
~By Ann Patchett ~
I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.
~By Norman Wisdom ~
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
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 ~
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
~By Dean Kamen ~
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 ~
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.
~By Jerry Jones ~
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
~By Eugene O'Neill ~
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
~By Edward Tufte ~
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
~By Terry Goodkind ~
These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
~By Linda Lavin ~
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
~By Emily Watson ~
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
~By Oskar Schindler ~
And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.
~By Terrence Howard ~
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
~By Alfred Korzybski ~
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
~By Dean Kamen ~
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
~By Michael Chabon ~
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
~By Thomas Paine ~
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
~By Teresa de Lauretis ~
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
~By John Shirley ~
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
~By Alison Moyet ~
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
~By Phaedrus ~
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
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 ~
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
~By Bill Gates ~
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
~By George Pataki ~
I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.
~By Mary Ann Mobley ~
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
~By Anita Roddick ~
Music stops you from thinking.
~By Peter Weir ~
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
~By Jules Renard ~
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
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 ~
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
~By Lynn Davies ~
I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
~By Rick Warren ~
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.
~By Erika Christensen ~
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
~By Jacqueline Susann ~
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
~By Alvin Lee ~
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
~By Adam Michnik ~
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 ~
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.
~By Robert Towne ~
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
~By Walt Disney ~
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
~By Terry Josephson ~
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
~By Dean Smith ~
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
~By Jenny Holzer ~
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 ~
I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'
~By Tina Fey ~
I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.
~By Shaun White ~
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