Thinking Quotes

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. Ira Glass
You Yourself People Too Much Thinking Too Other Tool Dramatic Machine Characters Logic About Emotion Empathize Empathy Powerful Over Powerful Tool Without Contrast Gets Situations Staged Story Much Really Reason Sequence Moments Imagining
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Jacques Ellul
Game Become Thinking Purely Superfluous More More Or Less Force Exercise Without Less Internal Compelling
Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist. Jaggi Vasudev
You Courage Communism Socialism Become Thinking Way Communist Socialist
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes
Life Death People Opportunity Too Many People Thinking Too Security Seem More Instead Than Afraid Many
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking. James Howard Kunstler
You Society Thinking Delusional Understand Lot Up Get Against Hard Things Stressed
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! Jane Taylor
Man Mind Few Think Thinking Defined Though Never How Being Grand Justly Use Who Many Prerogative
If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth. Jeremy Clarkson
Truth Best You Rude Stupid Thinking Everybody Lobster Eat Red Like Comfort Got Coming Western Very America Where Holiday Your Inn Fat Programme
Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some. Jocko Willink
Work Morning You Mistake People Wake Up Big Think Thinking Out Some Execute Make Go Off Wake Clock Up Big Mistake Get Goes Just Plan Work Out Alarm Start
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brainy Looking Thinking More Knowing Than Interesting Less
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. John Polkinghorne
Too Much Thinking Too Very Much Theological Present
I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing. Kelli Berglund
Love Good People Thinking Guess Minds Out Bad Would Inside Able Bad Thing Heads Read How Get Figure Cool Thing
When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. Kris Kristofferson
Myself Me Thinking Out Gulf Through Wrote Make Mexico Just Middle Oil Help Platform Night
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about! Layne Staley
You Whatever Down Think Thinking About Songs Wrote Were Listen Things
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. Leonard Cohen
Time You Yourself Sense Thinking About Repose Stop Certain
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive. Margaret D. Nadauld
Smile Witness First Feelings Inclusive Thinking Others Say Kind All Things Part Feel Make Being Means Hello Stranger Standing Helpful Things
The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle. Marianne Williamson
Alone Conflict Mind Thinking Our Lies Miracle Simply Mortal True Beyond Devise Because Answer Israel Israeli-Palestinian Quite Cannot Level Palestinians Consciousness Need
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. Martha Smith
Best Gardening Thinking Some Weeds While Pulling
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. Mary Oliver
Morning You Wait Wake Up Important Lose Gone Down Think Thinking Rule Way Out Something Write Instantly Until Line Were Wake Up Very Things
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. Mary Roach
Best Good Home Technology Walk Old Sit Old Friends Think Thinking Everybody Guess Airplane System Out Windows Put Raymond Like Friends iTunes Walking Listen Stop Anymore While Again Loves Video Episodes Interfered Used Now Staring Watch Here
Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning. Meles Zenawi
Time Learning People Thinking Everybody Only Over Dead Dead People Course Am Still Cease Certified
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. Naomi Wolf
Patience Strategy Thinking Kids Critical Critical Thinking Obstacles Course Teach Necessary Resilience
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition Thinking Way Circumstances Hurry General Never Merely Greater Than Pace Keeps
Self-awareness is a trait - or maybe 'practice' is the more accurate way to put it - that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you. Neil Blumenthal
You Intelligence Practice Thinking Everyone Way Critical Critical Thinking Weaknesses More Emotional Emotional Intelligence Part Self-Awareness Put Also Knowing Course Always Motivates Improve Accurate Trait Maybe Means Your Strengths
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words. Patricia Marx
Buy You Words Word Somebody Important Thinking Extra Paper About Purpose Towels Like Because How False Very Going Just Just Because Store Should Your Brevity
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? Peace Pilgrim
Thoughts You Peace Judge Thinking Criterion Brought Doing Whether Which Right Things Inner Inner Peace
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. Richard Bach
Life You Be Happy Happy Yourself Will Important Lost Thinking Somehow Someone Until Make Always Manage Room Might Your Searching
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