- Exercise
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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
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nando's - boom! That's what I'm thinking of whenever I'm in London. I go there every time.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I’m thinking or feeling something, I have to record it somewhere. If I don’t, I worry the thought will be lost and I’ll never get it back again. I never self-edit and I don’t write in one place or in a special book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020