- Political
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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
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.
- Psycho
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020