It helps if the hitter thinks you’re a little crazy.
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
If people are like, ‘Oh, you’re an icon,’ then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall.
Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
If I were to look in the United States or in Europe, in some of the garages, you would have a Bentley or two Bentleys or a high-end Mercedes, and you may find a Smart also in that same garage because that person thinks it’s a fun extra car to have. He may have four cars but also have a Smart because he thinks it is cute.
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying – from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it’s the funniest show on television.
If you’re a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I’m very serious. My missus thinks I’m a bit weird. I’m cold, I don’t have many emotions. It’s very rare I cry.
I don’t care what anybody thinks.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
There’s something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
I am not someone who thinks that a million products will mean that you’ll look perfect.
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they’re a designer.
If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have security. But Hef thinks I’m naive. He feels I’m vulnerable to kidnapping.
I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don’t think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they’re doing evil stuff. That’s the scary part.
I feel sorry for the man who marries you… because everyone thinks you’re sweet and you’re not.
If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small… Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
My mother thinks I’m a national treasure. She’s the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
For every person that says, ‘I love your work, and my daughter thinks you’re great, and we watch all your movies,’ and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, ‘Who are you? What’s your name? Are you on ‘House of Cards’?’
I’m a singer who thinks like a rapper.
Listen, everybody thinks I’m a Republican, but I’m not a Republican.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.
My 11-year-old thinks I’m cool because he watches things I’ve made on YouTube.
No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.
In New York, as long as you’re not peeing in someone’s doorway, everyone thinks you’re a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible ‘lifestyles’ turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
People will ask, ‘Are you famous?’ And I always answer, ‘My mother thinks so.’
Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.
Anyone who thinks they’re indispensible is fooling themselves.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I’m sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
I’m not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.
Since I’m a contrarian, I don’t want to go along with what everyone else thinks.
Mike Pence is the kind of guy that brushes his teeth and then drinks orange juice and thinks, ‘Mmm.’
That’s what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform – is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in ’86.
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
When you say ‘design,’ everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it’s an emotive word. Everybody thinks it’s how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
When everyone thinks they know you, it’s hard not to be guarded.
I want someone who can respectfully challenge me. I know what I believe, so there’s no point in my taking on a relationship with someone who thinks like me or laughs at what I laugh at. I enjoy being with someone who can offer me the opposite.
