Most of the time I’m thinking, I’m glad that scene was improvised.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it’s hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes...

Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!

I don’t know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

I swear, I didn’t really go in thinking, ‘I’ll be the Simon Cowell’ of ‘Top Chef.’ I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and...

You need to manage your expectations. You’ll live longer.

The pondering heart is a thankful heart.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a...

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you...

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

It’s hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I...

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

I’m not a robot. I’m a freak of the universe … a thinking animal … and I’m trying to see my way clear through this morass.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by...

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can’t really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

I have a long view of history – my orientation is archaeological because I’m always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn’t open the lid.

I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an...

There’s a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You’re not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It’s a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with...

It is not good thinking – either at the corporate level or at the personal level – to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

If I didn’t know you I would say I don’t know you.

…most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.

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...

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

Give me another Chance Then, You will Get Less than I Gain…

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I’ve worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and...

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Il se servait de son esprit comme d’un coin pour élargir de son mieux les interstices du mur qui de toute part nous confine. Les failles grandissaient, ou plutôt le mur, semblait-il, perdait de lui-même...

My dad said to me a few years ago: “There’s no harm in thinking.” We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.He said, “You...

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro’s question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?

…Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking’s no good, is it, madam? Thinking won’t help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, “come along, Ellen! Stop it...

It is so important to think for yourself.

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.

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.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad...

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, ‘This has all gotta be important!’ I would just underline the whole...

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was...

Why should things be easy to understand?

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move...

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.

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.