- 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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
- Faithful
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
- Good Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think responsibility does come with a lot of power, and more than that, it comes with the fact that you can actually change the thinking of those not only in your country but in the countries where your films are watched.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020