- Good
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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
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start thinking about the future it freaks me out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already bungee jumped, so I am thinking about diving with sharks. I watched a little snippet of 'Jaws 2,' and I was like, 'Nope! I'll save it for a rainy day.' Unfortunately, I live in England, and it's always raining.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sit in my pickup truck at 7 o'clock in the morning outside my office and listen to the Replacements or something full blast, thinking, 'What am I doing here?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020