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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a stethoscope name?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.
- Free Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020