- Foundation
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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
I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I'm just really relaxed, that's also a creative time for me, because that's when my mind is more open because I'm not worried or thinking or being very analytical.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of people thinking, 'Oh God, look at this terrible refugee crisis; we must do our bit', there's a lot of people thinking, 'How can we get out of doing our bit and find reasons not to provide sanctuary for these people?'
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'
- Anecdotal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.
- Pose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020