Am I Thinking Quotes

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

I'm always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.

The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.

Its OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.