“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.” ThinkingWayHappensFilmActingSkillsEnteringTechnicians Author:Jodie Foster
“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.” ThinkingKindPlayHappensParentNaturalPassionateIntenseProgression Author:Jodie Foster
“To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsIdeasRealWholeHappensCausesStrangeFameTestsThings HappenPeculiarStrange Things Author:Tobey Maguire
“I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.” ThinkingKnowsWayHappensFilmNextToo MuchInformationToo Much Information Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.” ThinkingI CanHappensAbilityComedyWifeAchievementApproachMy WifeWorking Women Author:Nick Offerman
“Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.” IfsThinkingWorldKindWholeHappensEarthDown AndWhole WorldDestroyedAliensFascinatingShattering Author:Evan Peters
“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsWellsMeanI CanImportantBookReasonDoneHappensEnjoyWrittenHugeAmountPlanningRelaxChaptersOutlines Author:R. L. Stine
“I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.” PeopleThinkingWellsImportantHappensCultureForceDangerousCommunicateMoraleBad Politics Author:Aaron Levie
“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.” ThinkingWorldNeedsEndsEnoughBigsHappensEnergyLevelsFocusUsersMicrosoftOraclesIbmUser Experience Author:Aaron Levie
“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.” ThinkingWritingWholeHappensActorsHouseLostSceneDeeperThings HappenUnconsciousEmail Author:David O. Russell
“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.” ThinkingChildrenHappensYoungParentSidesGroupsAdultsOur ChildrenYoung AdultYour ChildrenMentor Author:Geoffrey Rush
“I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.” PeopleThinkingHappensWeight Author:Nicole Richie
“When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.” ThinkingWritingYearsMadeHappensYoungDiaries Author:Jonathan Stroud
“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindMayHappensCausesTermEnvironmentalFactorsNervousAgentsDamageChemicalsPentagonEnvironmental Factors Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.” ThinkingMenWantHappensHappenedMen And WomenLiberationFallacy Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingHappensMen And WomenComplicated Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.” ThinkingSometimesFactsHappensValuesGamesSoundPresidentHeardCriticismBlameFaultsConservativeAccidentsAdministrationThroatBootsHeelsSpillsBlame GameConservative ValuesAccidents Happen Author:Rand Paul
“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.” ThinkingWritingKindLittlesI CanIdeasHappensAbleBoysNovelPathCuttingWillingHolesLeapGet BackBroadsSectionsBlacknessRight Path Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.” ThinkingHappensPartyRepublicanAppreciateLaborEnglandDisappearComparisonModeratesExtremistBlair Author:Evan Thomas
“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanImportantEndsHappensReadingNovelMiddleBuiltAnnaPredictability Author:Scarlett Thomas
“Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.” PeopleThinkingEnoughStoriesHappensSexInterestingTelevisionSellsTunesCablesNudityDaytime Author:Jack Wagner
“Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsHappensResourcesChineseGoodsClash Author:Daniel Yergin
“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSometimesHardBigsHappensSongNextInterestingFocusBridgesSectionsBassSketchy Author:Ryan Adams
“I'm not a big fan of guitar face. You know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye and it's really humiliating. You know some people have that really embarrassing guitar face? I remember thinking about this when I was doing the DJing, because... you do have to focus, and that's what happens, it's your focus face. But you're in a movie, so you should probably lock it up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldLooksBigsHappensEyeTogetherRememberFacesFocusFansGuitarLipsLocksEmbarrassingHumiliatingPlaying Guitar Author:Lucas Till
“Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels of mind, and that happens automatically.” ThinkingMindDifferentHappensLevelsObjectsBuddhismAccessDimensionsDifferent LevelsChakra Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.” IfsThinkingHappensWaitingInterestingForeverOur LivesSomething InterestingWaiting For Something Author:Donald Miller
“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHelpingHappensJobsLeftPovertyRightsDespairWorkersFewerProvidingCompetitors Author:Louise Mensch
“My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.” ThinkingWantReasonHappensMy OwnTasteAverageBrilliantTunesFormulasBatting Author:Cameron Mackintosh
“I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.” ThinkingKnowsWayHappensPrepared Author:Chrisette Michele
“'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.” ThinkingKnowsWayHappensDiesAsksAnswersSickSo Sick Author:Ellen Muth
“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.” ThinkingPlayHappensMusic IsPlaying MusicMeditating Author:Rick Wright
“I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.” IfsThinkingFeelsSometimesHappensGamesSportsKnowingWindOne DayThrowingAnything Can Happen Author:Barry Zito
“I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.” ThinkingProblemHappensLove YouPersonalityLuckyRelationWho I AmRecognitionWorking ItLove Your Work Author:C. C. H. Pounder
“I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.” IfsThinkingWritingHappensStuffMaterialsDown AndNotesPhonesCome UpAlways Thinking Author:Wanda Sykes
“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsHappensKidsMotherFatherParentUnderstandingRightsSeparationWhatever Happens Author:Dwyane Wade
“When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.” ThinkingBodyLightHappensBeautifulWaterGratitudePureShiningYour BodyCrystalsEmbodiment Author:Masaru Emoto
“There is temptation to place too much importance on those things that you're meant to do, and not on to little everyday happinesses. I think if you do what makes you happy on a daily basis, your days gather into years and you have a happy life. I don't want to think too far ahead. I want to make sure that I enjoy tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. And we'll see what happens.” IfsThinkingWantYearsLittlesHappensNextEnjoyToo MuchTomorrowImportanceBasesEverydayTemptationHappy LifeNext DayMake You Happy Author:Guy Garvey
“I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.” ThinkingChildrenWarHappensWould BeYour ChildrenUnbearableTearing Apart Author:Dawn French
“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.” ThinkingWorldShouldRealRealityHappensSufferingHappenedIllusionExpectationsShould HaveProjectionWhatever Happens Author:Jacque Fresco
“I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.” ThinkingNeedsPersonsStatesHappensRunningUsedStrong Author:Mike Curb
“I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.” ThinkingHappensCertainNiceDrivingThings HappenPlanesNice Things Author:Andrew Dost
“It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.” ThinkingPersonsTwoHappensSubjectsCommunicationReasoning Author:Oliver Evans
“I was disappointed not to be able to sign [for Barcelona] last season. When the best club in the world calls you, then it is something that you want to happen. I have signed for the only club who really wanted me. In no moment did I ever think that Inter was a possibility. Rafa valued me and perhaps that is why people started saying that I could go there but this is the only club that pushed to sign me.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantMomentsHappensAbleWantedLastsPossibilitySeasonsClubsDisappointedBarcelona Author:Javier Mascherano
“I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.” ThinkingMindChildrenHappensTerribleBraveNarrativeTerrible Things Author:Daniel Handler
“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.” ThinkingMenHappensCan DoWhitePeriodsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerHeat Author:Walker Evans
“The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesBookHappensBitsCommunityLittle BitCosmic Author:Tommy Wallach
“Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.” ThinkingHappensDestinyDetermineMapsOur DestinyExterior Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsHappensBlackWhiteRightsCivil RightsHispanicBlack PersonRudolph Author:Lynn Samuels
“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.” IfsThinkingI CanHappensFilmChoicesDealsCareersClearBalance Author:Lukas Haas