Quotes on Thinking

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.