- Never
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- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.
- Fashionable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against fashionable thinking.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've decided to go for a B.A. in art. It's the shortest route to a degree. I'm thinking about teaching.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you're thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, there's no room. There's no room for the character you're trying to build.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020