Thinking Quotes - Page 976

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt.

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.

Donald Trump basically said: One state, two states, do whatever you like. I do not think this was a serious statement of American policy. This was him shrugging his shoulders and saying: Who cares about it. I think he doesn't even have the faintest idea of what he wants to do in the Middle East.

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.