- 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
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom bought me an 'Anne of Green Gables' journal. And I just remember thinking it was so cool, and I could write anything in it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're supposed to be bringing out-of-the-box thinking and innovation, and you cannot do that unless you've got diversity... It's everything from gender to ethnicity to geographic diversity.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from 'Jersey Shore.' The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience for a mystery. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always on the edge of my seat.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love watching programmes about food. I always think, 'When I'm old, I'll take up baking.' There's something calming about watching the recipe and thinking, 'I'm going to make that' - and it's never going to happen.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020