Quotes with thinking

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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Jules Combarieu Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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  • Brent Sexton My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Billy Connolly My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Bill Parcells My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Busta Rhymes My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Miller Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ruth Benedict No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Bernadette Peters No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Voltaire No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Jerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, ''How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?''
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Anita Roddick Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Paul Bourget One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
    Paul Bourget
    French writer (1852 - 1935)
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  • Kin Hubbard One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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