Thinking Deeply Quotes

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.

Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.

Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Thoughts convince thinkers; for this reason, thoughts convince seldom.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.