- Problem
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
- Fashion Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020