#thinking

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. ↗

— Stephen King

#positive-thinking #self-empowerment #writing #think

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strategy #thinking #action

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#willful-ignorance #die

Stop thinking, and end your problems. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#problems

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution. ↗

— Zach Dodson

#thinking #art

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dystopia #thinking #trouble

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#sages #thinking #violence #pain

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #questions #thinking #man

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33) ↗

— Nicholas G. Carr

#thinking #internet