Up Thinking Quotes

#1. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Silken Laumann

#2. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

Hannah Kearney

#3. The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#4. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#5. I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

Blake Mycoskie

#6. Dreams are epitome of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.

Kristopher Belman

#8. So give up negative thinking and realize your potential

Sunday Adelaja

#9. She took a deep breath and forgot to exhale. She wondered what it would be like if she licked him up one side and down the other.
"What are you thinking?"
She suddely felt kind of hot and dizzy and accidetally let Layla out.
"That i want to lick yout tattoo" she whispered.

Rachel Gibson

#10. You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the door, and all this lad needed was a stat dose of Man-the-Fuck-Up.

Cari Hunter

#11. My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Jade Jagger

#12. The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

Ross Bleckner

#13. Never act in fear nor lose hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. This is remembered by everyone even today because, in our thinking, the past takes up more space than the future.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#15. I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Annie E. Clark

#16. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

Maeve Binchy

#17. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Clint Eastwood

#18. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

Richard Gere

#19. I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

Dolly Parton

#20. Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now ... ? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually.

Nick Frost

#21. I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Rose George

#22. I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.

Rhys Darby

#23. I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

Shailene Woodley

#24. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

Michael Keaton

#25. I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

M.I.A.

#26. America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent."

Hans Zimmer

#27. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Andy Partridge

#28. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.

Amy Alkon

#29. I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

Hector Hugh Munro

#30. I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s
t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Rosanne Cash

#31. If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You'll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

T.D. Jakes

#32. Irreverence ran on both sides of our family ... my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Richard Branson

#33. Up a set and 2-0 it's definitely a situation where a little match practice would've helped, so I'm disappointed but think I can take some positives from the first set and the start of the second.

Mark Philippoussis

#34. Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

Shirley Jackson

#35. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#36. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#37. I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry

#38. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

Al Yankovic

#39. A long time ago I'd given up on religion, thinking it wasn't for me when so many were bigoted, narrow-minded, and cruel.

V.C. Andrews

#40. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Frank Gehry

#41. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn

#42. I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

Lisa Marie Presley

#43. I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

Kim Kardashian

#44. People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.

Bradford Cox

#45. I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

Nicky Morgan

#46. One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

Judd Apatow

#47. Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.

Colbie Caillat

#48. I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

Omar Benson Miller

#49. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

Bo Burnham

#50. This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

Christopher Moore

#51. I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.

Shailene Woodley

#52. Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.

Jen Lancaster

#53. I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

Frank Zappa

#54. You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

Don Whillans

#55. I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

Benjamin Carson

#56. I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Iain Banks

#57. Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

Jim Berg

#58. I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage or the only one talking in a room, so class really helped me deal with that. It doesn't really get any easier, but it helps you focus on the acting.

Travis Fimmel

#59. A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

Carmelo Anthony

#60. I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

John Legend

#61. I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

Zendaya

#62. I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end up ragged, empty and tired. I did. I felt so empty. Everybody tried to grab a piece of me and everybody tried to push me into a corner.

Heather Nova

#63. I swallowed my own smile. I shouldn't be thinking this was fun at all; it was serious business. But I couldn't help it, if you couldn't look at the world when it fell apart around you and see the funny shit, you would end up hating everyone and everything.

Shannon Mayer

#64. I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

Kristen Bell

#65. As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Oliver Goldsmith

#66. Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.

Robin Roberts

#67. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Sharon Tate

#68. My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.

Josh Radnor

#69. They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

Kenneth Williams

#70. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

Richard Dawkins

#71. I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

Geena Davis

#72. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#73. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

#74. It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

Jim Gaffigan

#75. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.

Carl Panzram

#76. Why, whatever were we thinking, Cassie?" I find my voice and try to keep up with the banter. "We're not being very ladylike, at all!

Kandi Steiner

#77. Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Alva Noe

#78. A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

Wes Anderson

#79. I don't think that God raised up Internet bloggers to call out wolves - who have an opinion and a website.

Perry Noble

#80. Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

George Bernard Shaw

#81. But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.

Rebecca Godfrey

#82. I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Billie Holiday

#83. I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't. So now, I think that's what I need to do. I just need to grow as an actor.

Max Irons

#84. I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.

Mark Mason

#85. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

Emily Blunt

#86. Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

Ari Up

#87. I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

Nick Swisher

#88. Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and ... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

Peter Milligan

#89. Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

African Spir

#90. You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

Jason Aldean

#91. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

Frank Herbert

#92. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#93. There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.

Robert Breault

#94. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.

Jessie J.

#95. I know with my size, a lot of people might think I'm like a slasher, a make-you-miss guy, which I can do that. But I also like to lower my shoulder and get the tough yards, too. I like contact. I like to mix it up.

Javon Ringer

#96. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives

#97. The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.

Christopher Lennertz

#98. I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

Toby Keith

#99. If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.

Jean Marzollo

#100. You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. You've got to show all sides of them. There is definitely an antagonistic relationship between guards and prisoners, and I do think it flares up.

Jenji Kohan