#thinking

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#bumps #butterflies #gives #golden #goose

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#beat #bed #broadcast #business #competition

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#being #boyfriend #cute #high #high school

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' ↗

— David Duchovny

#approaching #i #like #me #never

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #common #common way #give #most

It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself "God I'm in love." ↗

— Willa Ford

#because #depressed #down #dumps #god

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#capacity #develop #liberal #likely #linear