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Thinking Quotes

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

– George Bernard Shaw

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can’t sleep at night thinking about it. It’s terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

– Hans Rosling

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

– George Konrad

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

– Hale Irwin

I’m against sloppy, emotional thinking.

– Herman Kahn

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

– Hannah Murray

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

– Harvey Mackay

Thinking you’ve had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you’ve been run over by a bus. Trust me – you know when you’ve got depression.

– Giles Andreae

When I’m acting, that’s all I’m doing. When I’m not acting, I’m not thinking about acting. If I’m writing, I’m just writing.

– Hill Harper

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I’m thinking.

– Gena Rowlands

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn’t. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that’s all there is to it.

– Hugh Laurie

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn’t at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

– Gil Gerard

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That’s what makes me feel whole.

– Hugh Hefner

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that’s morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

– Helen Sharman

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it’s like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can’t not do it.

– Helen Fisher

I’m thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

– Harlan Coben

Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn’t thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can’t. It’s not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you’re going to give it back. It’s something that you can never repay someone for.

– Grizz Chapman

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n’ roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n’ roll.

– Gary Glitter

I’m really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I’m not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

– Greg Rusedski

When I’m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

– George Lloyd

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

– Hunter S. Thompson

I remember thinking, ‘I can’t act.’ Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

– Garry Hynes

The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not ‘Will you run and can you win?’ There is, ‘What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?’

– Hillary Clinton

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn’t cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

– Henry Fonda

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve – and sustain – political goals.

– H. R. McMaster

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

– Henry Ford

It is not good thinking – either at the corporate level or at the personal level – to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

– Gerard Arpey

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

– Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity – a crash, an illness, some shock to the system – to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you’re living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

– Hampton Sides

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions – both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

– Herman Kahn

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