Think

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

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

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc., things becoming more composed.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

I think the Creator renews me.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

I think violence can never be justified.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.

My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I think work begets work.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.

'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

I think it's good to live an artful life.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

I don't think I'm a good dancer.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral, I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

I really didn't think about song writing.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything else.

I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show, they need songs that keep the plot moving.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.

I love technology. I have my iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and Mac laptop. Because I love technology, I think if I were not at the NBA, I would try to be part of a tech startup company.

I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.