Thinking Quotes - Page 37

• I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

  will.i.am

  Boxes, Think Outside The Box, Realising

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• The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

  will.i.am

  Ideas, Computer, Speed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Civilization, Important

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• I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

  Al Yankovic

  Media, New Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

  Al Yankovic

  People, Finding Yourself, Events

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

  Paula Yates

  Time, Children, One Day

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, War, Times Like These

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Censorship, Mankind

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Censorship of Films Bill, June 07, 1923.

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• I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

  Donnie Yen

  Directors, Stories, Film

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2004.

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• There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Flying, Looks

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• A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

  Susannah York

  Relationship, Lovely, Interest

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• I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Art, Writing

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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• Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

  Thom Yorke

  War, Reading, Years

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

  Andrew Young

  Ideas, Two, Insanity

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• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

  Brigham Young

  Character, People, Earth

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• I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

  Loretta Young

  Hurt, Long, Judging

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• I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

  Loretta Young

  Despair, Want, Contribution

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• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  Neil Young

  Workout, Keys, Knives

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• Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

  Neil Young

  People, Say Anything, President

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• What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Opportunity, Growth

  "How We Can Bring About Change" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

  Lin Yutang

  Life, Success, Lying

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Heaven, Grace

  "What Makes the Christian Message Unique?". Interview with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com.

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• I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Practice, Names, Interviews

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• I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Knows, Implants

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