- Look
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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and how we can tie it all together.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020