Quotes with no-thinking

Quotes 301 till 320 of 462.

  • J. G. Ballard The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
    On liberty (1859)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Milo Bloom The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert The first time I went to Sturgis, I remember thinking, 'This motorcycle thing, this is me.'
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax The greatest Part of Business of the World, is the Effect of not thinking.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • J. G. Ballard The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
    Kingdom Come (2006)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • William Bragg The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
    William Bragg
    English physicist, chemist and mathematician
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Plato The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Claude D. Pepper The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Burt Bacharach The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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