Time To Think Quotes - Page 4

• I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

  Robert Bork

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

  John McAslan

  Thinking, Practice, Design

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• I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

  Ellie Goulding

  Jobs, Couple, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

  Bill Sharman

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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• Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Meaningful, Food

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.160, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Thinking, Trivia

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• Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.

  David Sedaris

  Smart, Animal, Thinking

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Knowing, Relief

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.133, Vintage

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• The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Weed, Thinking, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Civilization, Desire

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• It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

  Bell Hooks

  Country, Thinking, Self

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.

  Brian Falkner

  Dark, Thinking, Enough Time

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• There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Morning, Eye, Thinking

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.272, Scholastic UK

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• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

  Bisco Hatori

  Girl, Thinking, Doe

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• I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .

  Karen Chance

  Regret, Blessing, Past

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Anger

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Caring, Thinking

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• I'm different now, but back then I used to be the type of guy who would say, “I like you. Do you also like me or not? No? Tell me the truth. I'll give you time to think about it!” But now This isn't a lie but I've had 3 girlfriends, and I've dated each of them for 3 years. When it comes to dating, I'm the type who would be with someone for a long time. Before we start dating, I'd keep watching her. It's because I hate being hurt. I tend to give my everything once I date

  Yunho

  Girlfriend, I Like You, Hurt

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• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  Moss Hart

  Time, Opportunity, Thinking

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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