Thinking Quotes - Page 930

For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

I’ve never used music to sell my faith and I’ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. We’ve always tried to define our music outside of genres…what is a genre? A genre’s a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild.

I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

You can always do more than you think you can.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.