Thinking Quotes

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

~ Jonathan Ive

I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

~ Flume

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

~ Kellan Lutz

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

~ Vera Wang

I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.

~ Chad Hurley

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

~ Jane Mcgonigal

Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

~ Imran Amed

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

~ Olivier Theyskens

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

~ Niklaus Wirth

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

~ Greg Lynn

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

~ Adam Lambert

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

~ Lance Secretan

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

~ Wilma Mankiller

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

~ Jim Valvano

I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'

~ Tig Notaro

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

~ Simon Mainwaring

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

~ Martha Smith

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

~ Marcelene Cox

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

~ Clifford Geertz

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

~ Chris Pine

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

~ Daniel Tammet

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

~ Lauren Graham

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

~ Billy Connolly

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

~ Charles Kettering

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

~ Lele Pons

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

~ Samuel L. Jackson

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

~ Jamie Dornan

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

~ Jared Polis

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

~ Stanley R. Jaffe

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

~ Patti Smith

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.

~ Nicolas Cage

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

~ Jane Campion

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

~ Paul Davies

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

~ Alexander Meiklejohn

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

~ James Frey

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

~ Tadao Ando

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

~ Paddy Chayefsky

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

~ Ray Bradbury

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson