- Music
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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
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
- Nov 07, 2020
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always use the basic quality of people to achieve what I want to achieve. That's a different way of thinking. I always love that they do things. And when it goes wrong, well, try to correct it in one way or another.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020