Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It’s a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it. – Joe Strummer
Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake. – John C. Calhoun
I realized if I didn’t start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn’t be around to help me look back and remember. – Jacqueline Woodson
I’m not thinking when I’m writing, ‘How’s this going to read?’ Or, ‘What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?’ The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it’s deeply satisfying. It’s selfish! – Jim Crace
With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world. – John Burnside
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. – Ingmar Bergman
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they’re doing things, or why. I think it’s important to share the way you’re thinking. – John Travolta
I’ve looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good. – Joanna Lumley
I was thinking, ‘If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.’ – Jennifer Coolidge
It’s much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, ‘What was that?’ – Jessalyn Gilsig
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves. – Helen Garner
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering. – Janet Fitch
All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. – Jack Dempsey
It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way. – Johnny Weir
We shouldn’t be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest. – Jahangir Khan
It’s what the Pixies always said about music – they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. – Jonny Greenwood
My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. – Justin Cronin
I was thinking of applying to the ‘Guardian’ for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2. – Jamie Cullum
China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn’t have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. – James Dyson
Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, ‘What do I do now?’ So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, ‘I’m the Olympic champion. I can’t lose’ – being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure. – Jade Jones
In this room we’re all here together, but there’s probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don’t own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too. – Johnnie Cochran
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government. – James Bovard
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood. – Joshua Foer
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. – John Charles Polanyi
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them. – James Surowiecki
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions. – John Thorn