Thinking Quotes - Page 1015

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

It seems to me that there is a good deal of ballyhoo about scientific method. I venture to think that the people who talk most about it are the people who do least about it. Scientific method is what working scientists do, not what other people or even they themselves may say about it. No working scientist, when he plans an experiment in the laboratory, asks himself whether he is being properly scientific, nor is he interested in whatever method he may be using as method.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.