Quotes and Sayings About Thinking
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We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
-- A.M. Homes -
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
-- A.M. Homes -
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.
-- A.M. Homes -
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
-- A.M. Homes -
But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
-- A.S. King -
Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.
-- A.S. King -
Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
-- Aaliyah -
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.
-- Aaliyah -
You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
-- Aaliyah -
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
-- Aaliyah -
If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
-- Aaliyah -
I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.
-- Aamir Khan -
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
-- Aaron Belz -
I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
-- Aaron Boone -
When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
-- Aaron Carter -
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
-- Aaron Copland -
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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.
-- Aaron Huey -
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.
-- Aaron Huey -
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
-- Aaron Koblin
