- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking Quotes
How different minds work through doubt, bias, and possibility.
These quotes trace thinking through several angles: imaginative military leadership, the swing between doubt and optimism about humanity, and a writer's fear of losing the ability to work. For quotes centered on inner dialogue and identity, see Myself quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020