Quotes with thinking

Quotes 161 till 180 of 462.

  • C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Don Marquis If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Lee If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Donald Trump If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Biz Stone If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bjork In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Alex Grey In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Bonnie Bassler In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Nauman In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Schnetzer It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • Boris Yeltsin It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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