Thinking Quotes
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This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.
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People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.
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We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.
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Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.
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What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.
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I don't go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.'
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I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.
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I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."
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It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.
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Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
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A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
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I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
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It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.
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What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.
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I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.
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If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
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I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
