“All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 572 of 4756
“It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.”
“Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.”
“I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...”
“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.”
“I think [Donald Trump] is going to be inaugurated this week. I have great concerns, and apparently Republicans do as well, and there's going to be an investigation about the role that Russian hacking played in getting him elected.”
“Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.”
“I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.”
“There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.”
“And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.”
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”
“I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.”
“The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.”
“To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
“I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.”
“Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.”
“Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.”
“I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.”
“When it comes to football I think it's vital you always enjoy playing.”