Quotes about thinking
thinking doors people
What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think." I think language sometimes, because it opens new channels, it opens new doors, is enormously important. John Elkington
thinking social consumerism
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. John Elkington
thinking criminals worried
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive. John Elkington
thinking validation survival
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. John Edward
thinking
I don't think God's through with me, John Edward
thinking people how-to-be-happy
How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do. John Edward
thinking important eras
I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education. John Dykstra
thinking ends plan-b
It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good. John Dykstra
thinking people done
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy. John Otway
thinking years fans
The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits. John Otway
thinking play people
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. John Osborne
thinking dying may
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for. John Ortberg
thinking joy hearing
What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. John Olsen
thinking sound racist
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent. John Oliver
thinking america people
Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing. John Oliver
thinking week hard
I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead. John Oliver
thinking voice people
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people. John Oliver
thinking rhythm
I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have. John Oliver
thinking behavior form
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. John Oliver
thinking let-it-go tvs
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.' John Oliver
thinking decision second-best
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. John O'Donohue
thinking sea break
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again. John O'Donohue
thinking people crowds
I never turn on the crowd. Sometimes, you think it's a terrible show, and then afterward, sometimes people say they really liked it. So turning on the crowd is only going to alienate the few people who might like it. John Mulaney
thinking hands lawyer
Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals. John Mortimer
thinking risk body
I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money. John Moffitt
thinking winning brain
I think we can win it if my brain holds out. John McGraw
thinking space long
An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off. John Michael Higgins
thinking want directors
A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it. John Milius
thinking artist hype
Most artists think they're frauds anyway. John Milius
thinking self origin-of-life
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed. John Desmond Bernal
thinking facts
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. John Dewey
thinking community single-word
Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word. John Dewey
thinking creative facts
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. John Dewey