Way Of Thinking Quotes - Page 3

• My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Past, Thinking, People

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• There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Stubborn

  Nora Roberts (2001). “Dance Upon the Air”, p.256, Penguin

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• WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

  Brian Grazer

  Thinking, People, World

  Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman (2015). “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, People, Events

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• In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

  Bryan Stevenson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.

  James Madison

  Religious, Thinking, Blessing

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.97

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• [O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Inevitable Change, Way

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

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• The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

  Thomas Sankara

  Country, Successful, Thinking

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• Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Confidence, Thinking, Miracle

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.206, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Drinking, Swimming

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

  Diane Glancy

  Writing, Thinking, Events

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press

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• People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Thinking, People, May

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• History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

  Jostein Gaarder

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

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• Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinking. And I think those two structures - one highly logical, the other anything but - are always part of my thought process as I'm putting together a story.

  Brian Evenson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Two

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Thinking, Fiction, Pieces

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

  Eula Biss

  Real, Reading, Book

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• During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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• Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.

  Bristol Palin

  Dad, Nice, Teenager

  "Bristol Palin Slams Obama's Gay Marriage Stance: It's Based on 'Too Many Episodes of Glee'" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 10, 2012.

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• You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

  Charles Lamb

  Thinking, May, Way

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.52

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• To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Thinking

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Goal

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Acceptance

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