Thinking Quotes
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Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world. ...Carefully constructed families of pictures can act as a calculus all their own. Like any successful systems of symbols, with an appropriate grammar they enlarge the number of things that we can do without consciously thinking.
John D. Barrow
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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
Anthony Daniels
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating.
Anaxagoras
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I think it's cool to give people encouragement.
Avey Tare Animal Collective
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I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!
Paul Strand
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
Chance The Rapper
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
Garry Winogrand
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Every time you think, you weaken the nation.
Moe Howard
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I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.
Serena Williams
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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Octavio Paz
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
A. E. van Vogt
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Everett Ruess
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
Virginia Woolf
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
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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
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I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.
Jillian Hervey
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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
Keira Knightley
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
R. C. Sproul