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Quotes About Thinking

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.
~ Michelle Dockery
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
~ Takashi Murakami
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
~ Thomas Paine
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
~ Toru Takemitsu
Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.
~ Robert Hofstadter
I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.
~ Chad Hurley
There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.
~ Masha Gessen
I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.
~ Jerome Powell
My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.
~ Vinny Testaverde
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
~ Matt Dillon
The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.
~ Steve Erickson
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
~ Steve Lukather
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
~ Rene Descartes
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
~ Ajahn Brahm
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
~ Plato
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.
~ Samuel Gridley Howe
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
~ John C. Maxwell
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
~ Zoroaster
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~ Herman Hesse
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
~ Ivan Panin
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
~ Daniel Goleman
Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.
~ Brian Tracy