Quotes about thinking
thinking office special
I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that. Ricky Gervais
thinking directors actors
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
thinking creative soul
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.
thinking years people
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
thinking opposites fundamentals
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. Susan Cain
thinking philosopher accepting
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. Susan B. Anthony
thinking careers long
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career. Brian Wilson
thinking making-money notes
I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
thinking if-there-is-a-god helping
I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
thinking ideas giving
I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
thinking feelings may
I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
thinking economy fairs
I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy. Brian Cowen
thinking views political
do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage Brian De Palma
thinking numbers world
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore
thinking artist entrepreneur
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs. Brian Chesky
thinking people understanding
If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion. Brian Cox
thinking jazz painting
Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno
thinking space calm
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
thinking interesting television
I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
thinking people world
If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
thinking names working-together
Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.
thinking titles fine
When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished."
thinking voice years
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
thinking facts okay
I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay, this is what they're up to now; this is what they're doing; who's working with them?".
thinking bored elements
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno."
thinking play differences
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
thinking ideas personality
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
thinking furniture
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
thinking machines eras
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
thinking
Think inside the work - outside the work
thinking cds interesting
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
thinking listening way
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.
thinking cds differences
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.