Think One Quotes

#1. I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Amanda Schull

#2. I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'

Kaley Cuoco

#3. Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

Kenneth Branagh

#4. I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

Olivia D'Abo

#5. I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

Tom Barrett

#6. From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#7. He leaned toward me, murmuring, "I think one-on-one sounds better, don't you?"
His teeth gently caught my earlobe. All my muscles turned to liquid. I dropped the stirring rod and grabbed the edge of the table so I wouldn't collapse.

Andrea Cremer

#8. I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Jeremy Northam

#9. I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Bill Simmons

#10. everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Robert Towne

#12. Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes

Andrew Wyeth

#13. I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

#14. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Bruce Babbitt

#16. I don't think one can question MS' leadership

Virat Kohli

#17. You ask me why I do not write something ... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

#18. A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Javier Camara

#19. I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Nikki Giovanni

#20. I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

Michael Keaton

#21. I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

Anousheh Ansari

#22. I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

James M. Barrie

#23. I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

Glenn Frey

#24. I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.

Ashley Poston

#25. I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

Kevin Sampsell

#26. I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.

Warren Ellis

#27. I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We're not like show promoters where we're like, (sleazy) "Hey, come on over and do a show."

B. J. Porter

#28. Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

Jack Kerouac

#29. Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Barack Obama

#30. I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Frank Deford

#31. I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

Eve Ensler

#32. I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

#33. I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#34. I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

Johnny Hunt

#35. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

Temple Grandin

#36. I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

#37. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

Socrates

#38. I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

John Shelby Spong

#39. I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

#40. I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Quentin Tarantino

#41. If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

David Suzuki

#42. I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

Michael Lewis

#43. I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.

Tom Barbash

#44. I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

Kevin Costner

#45. What is destiny - a mechanical fact, a theoretical possibility, a concept, a superstition, a mere word? Ian McCullough was inclined to think one or another of these depending upon his mood. Destiny, the seemingly benign verso of fate.

Joyce Carol Oates

#46. I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Mark Gatiss

#47. I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

Saul Leiter

#48. But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Mary Jo Putney

#49. If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Confucius

#50. Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

Richard Roeper

#51. I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Dan Brown

#52. I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

Jeff Bezos

#53. I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

Tullian Tchividjian

#54. You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

Larry Kramer

#55. I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Colum McCann

#56. I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

Adam Schlesinger

#57. I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#58. I think 'One Woman Army' sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?

Ciara

#59. I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

Rufus Wainwright

#60. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#61. I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

John Gimlette

#62. Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

#63. I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Elizabeth Berg

#64. I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.

James Walsh

#65. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Annie E. Clark

#66. I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

Fran Lebowitz

#67. I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Ed Gillespie

#68. I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else ...

Robert Mapplethorpe

#69. I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Hilary Liftin

#70. I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.

Bryan Fuller

#71. What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Alice Walker

#72. I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adam Savage

#73. I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

Ian Williams

#74. At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

Jess Walter

#75. All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Robin Williams

#76. I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Cherie Blair

#77. I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

Melissa Rosenberg

#78. I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Washington Irving

#79. I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want ... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.

Heather McHugh

#80. There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is being organised, having things written down. Keep the players aware of the other teams, what the other teams' tendencies are, and just to keep on top of things.

Gerad Adams

#81. The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

Alan Lightman

#82. I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care ... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Michael Crawford

#83. Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

James Stewart

#84. I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.

Pat Robertson

#85. I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

Floyd Skloot

#86. I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Ron Chernow

#87. I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Arundhati Roy

#88. I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

Salman Rushdie

#89. The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

Benjamin Jealous

#90. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Albert Einstein

#91. I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

Robert Wise

#92. From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.

Haruki Murakami

#93. I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then at once thinks something else. I cannot think something else, I think one thing all my life. God has tormented me all my life.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#94. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Ben Carson

#95. I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.

Kelly Clarkson

#96. Together greet life's solemn real, Together own one glad ideal, Together laugh, together ache, And think one thought - "Each other's sake," And hope one hope - in new-world weather, To still go on, and go together.

Nancy Horan

#97. I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

Andrew Wyeth

#98. I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

David Nalbandian

#99. I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Joe Pantoliano

#100. I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

George Ezra