Time To Think Quotes - Page 6

• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• There is a well-established conviction that the central banks always do what is necessary to keep the system going and then afterwards you then take care of the legal aspects. In a crisis, you simply do not have time to think about such concerns for too long.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Long, Care

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

  Betty White

  Thinking, People, Larks

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• I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Thinking, Views

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

  Sam Altman

  Real, Thinking, Long

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• You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.

  Costa-Gavras

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Anger

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Dream, Simple, Thinking

  "An Interview with the Artist: Jacob Hashimoto". Pari Dust interview, www.paridust.com. September 26, 2014.

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• I really like to take the time to build things slowly and surely - to get more grounded. But it never felt for certain, like, "One day people will listen to me!" It was more like, "Perhaps I've got something to say." So it feels fantastic. It's good to take the time to think, to find, to search.

  Haider Ackermann

  Thinking, People, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?

  Carlos Santana

  Mean, Angel, Thinking

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• It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

  Bell Hooks

  Country, Thinking, Self

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• But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.

  Brian Falkner

  Dark, Thinking, Enough Time

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• [I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Mountain

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• It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.

  Liza Minnelli

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  "Super trouper" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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• The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, People, May

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• I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

  Mark Pincus

  Humble, Thinking, Way

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• I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.

  Jean-Sebastien Giguere

  Thinking, Exciting, Concentration

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• When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

  Alex Graves

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the time you've shot what you need to shoot, you don't really have time to think or shoot anything else.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Thinking, Prison

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Sleep, Thinking

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by G. K. Chesterton, p. 31, 1917.

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• We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

  Norman Cousins

  Time, Thinking, America

  "Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey".

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