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Quotes About Thinking

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.
~ Kanye West
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
~ Amy Winehouse
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~ A. A. Milne
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
~ John Mellencamp
To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.
~ Jeff Kober
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
~ Simon Sinek
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
~ Wallace Stevens
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
~ Edward de Bono
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
~ Joan Chen
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
~ John Stuart Mill
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
~ Joshua Reynolds
People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.
~ Marie Kondo
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
~ Thomas Huxley
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
~ Stacy London
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
~ Tommy Shaw
Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
~ Maya Hawke
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
~ B. R. Ambedkar