Quotes about thinking
thinking america stories
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller. Norman Rockwell
thinking great-love people
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. Norman Schwarzkopf
thinking reflection order
The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection. Northrop Frye
thinking answers literature
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
thinking waste wasting-time
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered. Norman Mailer
thinking library sanctuary
In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.
thinking roots creative
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
thinking groups action
Group action - yes; group thinking - no Norman Lamm
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I don't think of myself all the time. Norman MacCaig
thinking people way
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
thinking taught poetry-is
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
thinking violence way
I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made. Norman Reedus
thinking yelling people
Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.
thinking zombie want
I don't think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.
thinking who-i-am people
I'm in a happy place. I'm very at peace with who I am and what I'm doing and the people around me, so I think I'm probably most ambitious at where I am.
thinking hell hours
I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much. Norman Lear
thinking my-favorite human-condition
I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
thinking timing enough
Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
thinking people age
That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.
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I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.
thinking feelings
I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.
thinking giving leader
I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
thinking culture
I think for television generally, the question that often arises is, "Does television lead, or does it follow?" You know, does it lead the conversation, or culture, or does it follow what's going on? And I think it does both.
thinking people chosen
I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.
thinking people underestimate
As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.
thinking people mind
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
thinking world
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world. Orson Scott Card
thinking grandparent polls
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls. Os Guinness
thinking each-day rewards
I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do. Oscar de la Renta
thinking way firsts
I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.
thinking way born-free
Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
thinking people long
The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success. Orson Welles
thinking people want
I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.