Quotes about thinking
thinking would-be taxi
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet. Dan Stevens
thinking people very-good
Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do. Dan Abrams
thinking shields phenomenal
I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale. Damon Lindelof
thinking cynicism persons
One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.
thinking sensitive greedy
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed. Craig Kilborn
thinking apples iphone
Apple released the upgraded version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. I think the S stands for suckers. Craig Ferguson
thinking saudi-arabia misery
I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.
thinking voice people
I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike. Connie Smith
thinking two islands
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. Conor Cruise O'Brien
thinking feelings sitting
I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage. Conor McGregor
thinking opposites data
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.
thinking maps world
It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me. Elizabeth Strout
thinking like-you drowning
I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it. Elizabeth Scott
thinking want ends
I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.
thinking choices telling-the-truth
I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not. Ricky Gervais
thinking careers use
I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.
thinking people empathy
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.
thinking buying pants
I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.
thinking wire damage
When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.
thinking years people
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
thinking philosopher accepting
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. Susan B. Anthony
thinking careers long
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career. Brian Wilson
thinking jazz painting
Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno
thinking interesting television
I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
thinking voice years
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
thinking bored elements
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno."
thinking play differences
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
thinking furniture
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
thinking ideas creating
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
thinking way computer
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
thinking play sometimes
Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!" Bret McKenzie
thinking
When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.
thinking world want
I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.