- New
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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
- Confucianism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
- Big Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I'd be very down. I'd go home, and it would drag on for days, I'd be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020