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Thinking Quotes
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
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"I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it."
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"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."
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"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
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"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain."
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"You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you."
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"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!"
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"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."
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"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."
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"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."
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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."
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"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed."
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"The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable because sometimes the unthinkable happens."
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"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
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"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
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"Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!"
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"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."
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"Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that."
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"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
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"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
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"I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good."
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"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
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"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough."
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"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
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"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."
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"I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do."
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"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
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"It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others."
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"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."
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"Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'."
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"A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking."
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."
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