Think Quotes

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.

~ Kelsey Grammer

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

~ Maya Lin

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

~ Thom Mayne

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

~ Tony Scott

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

~ Larry Wall

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

~ Minoru Yamasaki

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

~ David Chipperfield

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

~ Stefan Sagmeister

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

~ Bjarke Ingels

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

~ Ron Eglash

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

~ Antoine Predock

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

~ Steven Holl

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

~ Anna Eshoo

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

~ Alanis Morissette

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

~ Parker Posey

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

~ Frank Deford

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

~ Arlen Specter

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

~ Jon Oringer

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

~ Diane Kruger

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

~ Edmund Morgan

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

~ Deirdre O'kane

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

~ Zoe Foster Blake

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

~ Catherine Tate

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

~ Fred Thompson

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

~ Susie Bright

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

~ Ferdinand Mount

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

~ Ted Ligety

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

~ John Avlon

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

~ Confucius

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

~ Salman Rushdie

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

~ Flora Lewis

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

~ Gates Mcfadden

I think you never stop learning.

~ Norman Foster

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

~ Edward Young

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

I think you're working and learning until you die.

~ J.k. Rowling

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

~ Taylor Momsen

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

~ Ty Segall