Thinking Quotes - Page 16

• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Feelings, Mediocrity

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• Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Decision, Answers, Way

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• How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Literature, Logic

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• I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

  Alice Neel

  Paint, Theory, Subjects

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• Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Character, Intelligent, Long

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.258, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Communication, Men, Talking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

  Charles Kettering

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• One thought fills immensity.

  William Blake

  Ideas, Immensity

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Fighting, Somewhere Else

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• It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

  Anatole France

  Fashion, Fools Day, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

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• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Seize The Day, Gusto

  Og Mandino (1986). “Mission: success!”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• At times I think and at times I am.

  Paul Valery

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

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• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

  Josiah Royce

  Love, Death, Learning

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• Don't believe everything you think.

  Unknown

  Motivational, Wisdom, Believe

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• Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Moments

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• I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

  Chuck Jones

  Bunnies, Bugs

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.165, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

  Dyan Cannon

  Said

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• Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Order, Bears

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• People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

  Christopher Morley

  Moving, People, Political

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• The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind

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• Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Skills, Ideas

  "Edward De Bono: 'Iraq? They Just Need to Think It Through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Peace, Practice

  "The Wisdom of the Upanishats: Four Lectures Delivered at the Thirty-first Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society, at Adyar, December, 1906".

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Pleasure

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.157, Diversion Books

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