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Thinking Quotes


"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."


"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."


"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."


"Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'."


"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."


"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."


"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."


"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."


"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."


"Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign."


"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."


"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."


"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."


"It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking."


"I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do."


"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."


"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."


"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."


"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."


"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."


"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."


"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."


"You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in."


"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile."


"Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly."


"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."


"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."


"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."


"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."


"The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking."


"I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast."


"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."


"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."


"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."


"The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that."
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