You can't think forever. Sooner or later, you've got to make a move.
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Quotes tagged ‘Thinking’
You could learn something from Mr. Spock, Doctor. Stop thinking with your glands.
— George Clayton Johnson, James T. Kirk, William Shatner, imdb.com
Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.
[On humans] I guess I just realized how amazingly screwed up they all are. I mean, really, really screwed up, in a monumental fashion. And they have no purpose that unites them so they just drift around, blundering through life until they die…which they…they know is coming, yet every single one of t…
— Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, Anya Jenkins, Emma Caulfield, imdb.com
Nowhere to go, nothing to do… lost and found in the moment... just practice this. Maybe here is where we find wholeheartedness and our true freedom.
Are you taking me off the case? Please don't take me off the case! Because if you take me off the case, that means I'm not working, and if I'm working, it means I have to think thoughts!
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
I’m bored is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. It goes on forever, inwardly. Do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say I’m bored.
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me—almost as if I were going to think!
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part; on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and…
Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: ‘Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.’
Aristotle approves of food, drink and sex (all in moderation – he’s big on moderation); he believes leisure is more important than work; that we all have innate talents and that we don’t peak until we’re 49. What’s not to like?
We're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, cease…
I’m still at the point where I think that I get my best thinking done when I’ve got a fucking cigarette in my mouth.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
The central fallacy in modern life is that accomplishments can produce deep satisfaction. That's false.
The average college GPA for a self-made millionaire is somewhere in the low B range. But at some crucial point in their lives, somebody told them they were too stupid to do something and they set out to prove the bastards wrong.