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Quotes About Thinking

In meditation, placing our attention on the breathing takes the mind from daydreaming, worrying, thinking, and fantasizing. It gives our mind something healthy to do.
~ Sakyong Mipham
We are not computers; we cannot download information about God or life by direct transfer. Life is beautiful and barren and impossibly complex. Books and conferences help us think about our lives, but most of life is not thinking about life—it's living through
~ Sally Clarkson
This is not a mystical adventure. You are not the protagonist. You're seeing and doing things which are having profound emotional effects on you. You're being irrational. You're not thinking things through, you're not working things out. You're going on mental arithmetic instead of paper arithmetic and you're going on gut instinct instead of worked, peer-reviewed results.This is not good science.
~ Sam Hughes
Well, thinking about what's not supposed to require thinking, that is philosophy, no?
~ Samuel R. Delany
A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra
~ Samuel Shem
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time for Original Thinking, Long Term Approach, Innovation, Building Great Products, Large Scales & Solving Challenging Problems. Enough of Myopic/Weak Start-Ups in India.
~ Sandeep Aggarwal
I have definitely started to edit a lot of things that I would not have thought twice about saying 10 or 15 years ago. It simply isn't worth it to be exposed to the unsophisticated thinking of so many people. I've learned how to recalibrate my approach to social commentary.
~ Sandra Bernhard
Stockholm syndrome, wherein people held in captivity begin to empathize and identify with their captors as a way of adapting to their situation. It is too incongruous to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking and behavior are disturbing. Something has to line up, so women accept the pathological thinking and behavior to eliminate the disturbance they feel.
~ Sandra L. Brown
You can change your brain for the better or worse through behaviors and even ways of thinking. Bad habits have neural maps that reinforce those bad habits.
~ Sanjay Gupta
By giving good fame your beauty and nobility to such friends you sicken me with pain Blame you? Swollen Have your fill of them For my thinking it is poorly done and all night I understand baseness Other minds the blessed
~ Sappho
Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about it.
~ Sara Hylton
Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about.
~ Sara Hylton
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.
~ Sara Sheridan
Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking
~ Mike Tyson
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
~ Anthony Doerr
Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.
~ Max Brooks
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
~ Watchman Nee
Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.
~ Yann Tiersen
It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
~ Tim Winton, Breath
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
~ Simon Newcomb
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
~ Alan Alda
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
~ Aldous Huxley
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
~ Maxwell Maltz