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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

I am not partisan in my economic thinking. We work with any number of state governments, many of which are BJP governments.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

Quotes by Abby Wambach

Good Quotes

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Quotes by Abbie Cornish

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

Quotes by Aasif Mandvi

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years...

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly...

Quotes by Aaron Rodgers

Life Quotes

It's quite strange looking down the list of players who've won the young player award in the past and then thinking I'm in there too now. There's some great names like Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy - and I can't miss...

Quotes by Aaron Ramsey

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can...

Quotes by Aaron Judge

I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to...

Quotes by Aaron Douglas

There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

Quotes by Aaron Diehl

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking...

Quotes by A. Scott Berg

Me Quotes

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

Quotes by A. J. McLean

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

Quotes by A. J. McLean

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Myself Quotes

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Quotes by A. A. Milne

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Quotes by Anthony Albanese

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

Quotes by Zosia Mamet

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

Quotes by Zuleikha Robinson

When I'm acting, there are moments where I'm thinking, 'I sound like my mom when I say that,' or, 'I sound like my dad when I say that.'

Quotes by Zoe Perry

Never Quotes

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

Quotes by Ziad Doueiri

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when...

Quotes by Zhang Ziyi

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true...

Quotes by Ze Frank

You just have to make sure you keep living your life, challenging yourself, putting yourself in unusual experiences, thinking about what you're interested in doing, and going there.

Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

People Quotes

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are...

Quotes by Yuvraj Singh

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to...

Quotes by Yuvraj Singh

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

Quotes by Young Jeezy

I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.

Quotes by Young M.A

Think Quotes

I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would...

Quotes by Young Thug

Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's what we're trying to do - to provoke thought and discussion and, you know, shake people up to start thinking about things...

Quotes by Yorgos Lanthimos

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I...

Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Quotes by Yakov Smirnoff

I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.

Quotes by Yalitza Aparicio

Time Quotes

What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.

Quotes by Xherdan Shaqiri

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Quotes by Xavi

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and...

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of...

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

Way Quotes

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

Quotes by Woody Norris

When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to...

Quotes by Winnie Holzman

You're always thinking about making new music.

Quotes by Winston Marshall

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.

Quotes by Wim Hof

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

Work Quotes

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Quotes by Wilma Mankiller

Down South, there was the old 'ladies-don't-do-such-things' way of thinking. You couldn't be a lady and a good athlete at the same time.

Quotes by Wilma Rudolph

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

Quotes by Willie Aames

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

Quotes by Willie Cauley-Stein

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you...

Quotes by William Wilberforce

World Quotes

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Quotes by William Trevor

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Quotes by William Shatner

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

Quotes by William Sleator

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And...

Quotes by William Moseley

You Quotes

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

Quotes by William Klein

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

Quotes by William Kamkwamba

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Quotes by William Irwin Thompson

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Quotes by William Gilbert

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Quotes by William Gilbert

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Quotes by William Glasser

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I...

Quotes by William Golding

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

Quotes by Willem de Kooning

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking...

Quotes by Will Self

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing...

Quotes by Will Tudor

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

Quotes by Will Oldham

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Quotes by Will Eisner

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

Quotes by Will Forte

For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.

Quotes by Will Hobbs

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected...

Quotes by Will Hobbs

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.

Quotes by Wild Bill Hickok

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Quotes by Wilfred Owen

At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.

Quotes by Wes Studi

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Quotes by Wendell Willkie

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

Quotes by Wendy Cope

We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

Quotes by Wellington Mara

I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they...

Quotes by Wayne McGregor

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Quotes by Wayne Rooney

When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone's living. It crosses through there, but it's been contained.

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who...

Quotes by Warren Spector

I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking...

Quotes by Warren Beatty

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

Quotes by Wanda Sykes

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

Quotes by Waris Dirie

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Quotes by Walter Scott

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is...

Quotes by Walter Mosley

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Quotes by Walter Lang

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know...

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of...

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Quotes by Wally Schirra

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

Quotes by Wallace Shawn

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Quotes by Walead Beshty

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