#thinking

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#businesspeople #days #did #door #else

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#go #home #home runs #middle #pennant

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#even #feeling #johnny #know #problem

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#control #dent #facts #gun #gun control

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#about #else #other #romance #significant

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. ↗

— Britney Spears

#book #every #every night #i #mind

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? ↗

— Regina Spektor

#accomplish #been #distance #dust #else

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#actor #attitude #because #center #child

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#even #know #look #slip #stuff