Quotes about thinking
thinking violence justified
I think violence can never be justified. Abbas Kiarostami
thinking talking people
When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.
thinking people want
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
thinking losing capacity
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. A. B. Yehoshua
thinking goal people
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. A. Bartlett Giamatti
thinking grace special
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
thinking relaxation calm-down
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits... A. A. Milne
thinking sea fishing
Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.
thinking peculiar vibrations
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry. A. E. Housman
thinking brain pudding
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
thinking world academic
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Adrienne Rich
thinking bridges space
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
thinking health-education poetry
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
thinking one-direction rivers
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
thinking two people
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
thinking hercule-poirot ifs
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything. Agatha Christie
thinking eggs doe
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
thinking needs deals
Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
thinking past alive
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
thinking skills ideas
It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.
thinking mind spoons
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
thinking people fool
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
thinking people fiction
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
thinking mind let-it-go
Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
thinking may imagine
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
thinking littles hearing
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
thinking numbers perfect
I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect. Adrianne Palicki
thinking people complicated
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. Adrien Brody
thinking hands interesting
It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
thinking attention doe
I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.
thinking special-you avant-garde
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
thinking roles variety
But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety. Adrienne Barbeau
thinking topshop booty
I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. Adrienne Bailon