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Creativity requires courage to think beyond boundaries.
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Lily Smith
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I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.
Author:
Rick Yune
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I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Author:
Steven Wright
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
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Lee Westwood
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Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.
Author:
Tom Watson
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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Voltaire
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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Donald Trump
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I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Author:
Donald Trump
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I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Author:
Kenzo Tange
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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Gay Talese
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All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.
Author:
Leo Strauss
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If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
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Martha Smith
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I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
Author:
Dean Smith
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Author:
Shel Silverstein
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It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
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William Shakespeare
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Author:
Walter Scott
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
Author:
Erno Rubik
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Author:
J. Rowling
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Adrienne Rich
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Author:
Jules Renard
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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Author:
Eric Raymond
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
Author:
Irene Peter
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Author:
George Patton
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Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.
Author:
Ray Nagin
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
Author:
Rick Moranis
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Author:
Moliere
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It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.
Author:
Marian McPartland
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I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
Author:
Mark McGwire
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I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.
Author:
Craig McCracken
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Author:
Yo-Yo Ma
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The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
Author:
Ray Liotta
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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Author:
Maya Lin
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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
Author:
Sol LeWitt
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I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
Author:
Arthur Levitt
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The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable because sometimes the unthinkable happens.
Author:
Michael Leavitt
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I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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I'm against fashionable thinking.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.
Author:
Jane Kaczmarek
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Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.
Author:
Jerry Jones
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You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
Author:
Dwayne Johnson
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I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.
Author:
Paul Ince
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I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
Author:
John Hope
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
Author:
Thomas Hood
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But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
Author:
David Hockney
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But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
Author:
Damien Hirst
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I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.
Author:
Robert Guillaume
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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
Author:
Matt Groening
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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
Author:
Mike Gordon
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
Author:
Kim Gordon
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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Author:
Daniel Goleman
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
Author:
Samuel Goldwyn
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
Author:
Robin Gibb
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It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.
Author:
David Gest
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You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
Author:
James Gandolfini
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Author:
Robert Frost
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
Author:
Martin Fischer
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All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
Author:
Linda Fiorentino
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Author:
Clifton Fadiman
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Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
Author:
K. Drexler
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Author:
Walt Disney
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
Author:
Tony Danza
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Author:
Billy Connolly
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We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.
Author:
Erika Christensen
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Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.
Author:
Jim Caviezel
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He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
Author:
George Carman
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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
Author:
Eric Butterworth
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I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.
Author:
Delta Burke
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So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.
Author:
Sylvia Browne
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
Author:
David Brower
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Author:
Terry Brooks
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
Author:
Beau Bridges
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
Author:
Richard Brautigan
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A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
Author:
Arthur Bloch
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Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Author:
Michael Bergin
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I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.
Author:
Burt Bacharach
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
Author:
David Antin
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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
Author:
David Antin
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
