Thoughtful Quotes - Page 10

• To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, My Own

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• I appreciate anything thoughtful.

  Hilary Rhoda

  Appreciate

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• A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.

  Nick Kroll

  Animal, Talking, Comedian

  "Q&A: Nick Kroll Tells You About His Feelings". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

  Harold Evans

  Funny, Blogging, Journalism

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• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Fighting, Needs

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• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

  Douglas Pagels

  Friendship, Cute, Best Friend

  Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Might, Pausing, Action

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• There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

  Jack Kemp

  Reform, Debate, Welfare

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• AND THEN SOME... these three little words are the secret to success. People that follow this are thoughtful of others; considerate and kind...and then some. They are good friends and neighbors...and then some. I am thankful for people like this, for they make the world a better place. Their spirit of service is summed up in these three little words...AND THEN SOME.

  Carl Holmes

  Good Friend, People, Secret

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  People, Kind, Fit

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• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Real, Mean

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

  Kedar Joshi

  Differences, Doubt, Certainty

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• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Future, Past, Differences

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• We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Thinking, Climbing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Self, Curiosity

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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  Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

  Duke Ellington

  Past, Matter, Today

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

  Paul Cezanne

  Fall, Artist, Trying

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• The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

  Ted Nugent

  Views, Policy Making, People

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• Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

  Ann Landers

  Lonely, Kindness, World

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• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Funny, Sports, Thinking

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• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Care, Pay

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• We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

  Carson Kressley

  Saws, Serious, Skittles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Guitar, Play, Effort

  "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. Nobember 15, 2011.

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• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Art, Might

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