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Thinking Quotes

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"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
Voltaire
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
Walter Scott
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
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"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."
Dean Smith
"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."
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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."
Mark McGwire
"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 have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
Imelda Marcos
"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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"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
Tadao Ando
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
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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."
Billy Connolly
"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 more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
Martin Henry Fischer
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
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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."
Brandon Sanderson
"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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"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."
Damien Hirst
"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 aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
Kenzo Tange
"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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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."
Wendell Willkie
"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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"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
Robin Gibb
"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
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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."
Michael Leavitt
"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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"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
Don DeLillo
"For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking."
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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."
Dwayne Johnson
"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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"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain."
Daniel Goleman
"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain."
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"If I look confused it is because I am thinking."
Samuel Goldwyn
"If I look confused it is because I am thinking."
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"Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment."
Pearl Zhu
"Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment."
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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!"
Tony Danza
"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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"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."
Jerry Jones
"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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"A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking."
Arthur Bloch
"A conclusion is the place where you get tired 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."
K. Eric Drexler
"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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"A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways."
Pearl Zhu
"A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways."
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
Kin Hubbard
"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."
Mike Gordon
"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."
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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."
Anne Tyler
"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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"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!"
Shel Silverstein
"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!"
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"All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom."
Linda Fiorentino
"All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom."
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"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
George Carman
"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
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"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
Kim Gordon
"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
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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."
Denzel Washington
"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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"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."
Manuel Puig
"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."
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"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
Isaac Asimov
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
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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."
Jacques Maritain
"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."
George S. Patton
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
Erno Rubik
"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
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"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are."
Casey Stengel
"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are."
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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
Terry Brooks
"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."
Ray Liotta
"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."
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"It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician."
Yo-Yo Ma
"It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician."
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"Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum."
Tom Watson
"Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
Jules Renard
"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
Donald Trump
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
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"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."
Marian McPartland
"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."
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"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
Delta Burke
"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
Moliere
"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
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"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed."
Jim Caviezel
"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed."
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