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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
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"A 'biomass' man does not use logical and analytical thinking."
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"Your most precious asset is your right thinking!"
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"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors."
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"Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present."
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"The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems."
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"Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions."
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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."
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"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."
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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."
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"If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking."
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"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age

"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"
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"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."
Time

"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing

"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."
Writing

"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put."
Dream

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
People

"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."
Earth

"For me, writing something down was the only road out."
Road
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