Quotes with no-thinking

Quotes 421 till 440 of 462.

  • Benigno Aquino III When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bre Pettis When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Plato When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Sir Walter Scott When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Jacob Boehme When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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  • Butch Trucks When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Carter G. Woodson When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Seger When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Joyce Carol Oates When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Barton Seaver While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
    (2010)
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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