- 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
- Exposing
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- Nov 07, 2020
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever go into anything thinking I'm going to lose. I go into it thinking and believing I'm going to come out on top. I'm going to succeed.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?'
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
- Fresher
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- Nov 07, 2020
The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020