Quotes with thinking

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  • Harry Mathews Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Charles F. Kettering You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Brendon Urie 'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Arthur Bloch A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • William James A great many
    people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ben Schnetzer A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Anne Stevenson A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Helene Deutsch All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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