Quotes about thinking
thinking editors lazy
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. Ben Bradlee
thinking passionate saws
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
thinking years imagination
Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination. Ben Bernanke
thinking house employment
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
thinking trying needs
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
thinking people price-of-success
It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
thinking validation ideas
It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work. Ben Affleck
thinking government people
I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
thinking long use
There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
thinking pay would-be
Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.
thinking people actors
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
thinking different architecture
Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
thinking frustrated acting
After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
thinking usa president
Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
thinking study windsor
I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right. Barbara Windsor
thinking high-heels decision
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. Barber Conable
thinking ask-me ifs
If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer. Barbara Taylor Bradford
thinking literature poetic
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. Barbara Walters
thinking interviewing-someone
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
thinking people obscure
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
thinking voice giving
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
thinking office matter
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
thinking causes command
The power to command frequently causes failure to think. Barbara Tuchman
thinking government self
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.
thinking way tough
I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself. Barbra Streisand
thinking idols play
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
thinking political-opinions people
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
thinking singing way
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
thinking
I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good. Aya Cash
thinking worry problem
For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.
thinking winning people
I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.
thinking people
We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.
thinking trying problem
There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."