Deep Thought Quotes - Page 17

• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  Michelle Williams

  Water, Want, Ships

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• Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

  David Jenkins

  Understanding, Gains, Wells

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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

  Peter Drucker

  Humor

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• Quality requires your Presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Quality, Your Presence

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Humor, Caring

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Humor, Your Presence, Sells

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• It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

  Josh Billings

  Humor, Rich, Knows

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• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Running, Humor

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

  Bob Parsons

  Humor, Opportunity, Would Be

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• The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Inability, Remember

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• Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Humor, Caring

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• The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

  Thelonious Monk

  Humor, Cat, Chance

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• I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.
  Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Levels, Realizing

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• I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Effort, May

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.

  Sjon

  Issues, Use, Literature

  Source: wwd.com

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• I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mean, Quiet, Traveled

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  Laura Miller

  Attention, Demand, Commodity

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Effort, Climbs

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• There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Israel, Recognizing

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• It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  Speak Your Mind, Mind, Speak

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• I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

  Sybil Marshall

  Children, Integrity, Hard Work

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• The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Brothers Karamazov

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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