Top Thinking Quotes
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Ruth Benedict
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
Wim Wenders
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
Terry Goodkind 
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We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Hillary Clinton
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall
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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
John Zorn
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I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
Patsy Cline
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
Francesca Annis
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Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
Linda Lavin
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer
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