- Encouragement
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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
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020