- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I went and got my first job at 28, trying to think what I am going to do, I've never worked for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at home, an IBM compatible computer, and then I started to sell computers, and when I sold a computer to a company called Ligo I think, and they were selling systems which became blockbuster.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X-Factor'. I know I am. But 'Dragons' Den' will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it's fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have dreams, don't they? Young people have enormous vision for their futures. I think a lot of them are realising that they won't necessarily be Robbie Williams but they might be brilliant businessmen and businesswomen.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020