- Hard Work
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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
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of me getting out of rehab and thinking about going back to work, I was scared because I didn't know if I could do this clean and sober.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm now in my late 30s, and I've been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I've decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn't really filter in to our thinking. We didn't realise it at the time - we were just making amends for 2005.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That's all. And for me, it's fine that my house's interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
- Creative Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020