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Thinking Quotes
"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."
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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 have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
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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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"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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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
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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."
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"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."
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"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."
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"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
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"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
42
"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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"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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"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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"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
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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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"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
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"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain."
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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 watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast."
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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."
38
"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."
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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 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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"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
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"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
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"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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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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"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."
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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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"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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"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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"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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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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"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
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