Thinking

Discover New Examples

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don’t know half as much as I think I do.” ~ Paul Auster

“It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, “Read,” but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or “Don’t read, don’t think, just write,” and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you’re going to be a writer, you’ll probably take …

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“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.” ~Lydia Davis

Writing/Meaning/Thinking

“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

Calm State Of Mind

alone at his favorite outdoor table while quietly thinking … blocking out the sounds of the traffic and people passing by … completely focused on the other world that he knows will never happen

Life Is Too Short

“I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.” ~ Amy Winehouse, Singer-songwriter, Born: September 14, 1983 – Died: July 23, 2011

Morning Quote

“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.” ~ Vivien Leigh

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” ~ Carl Jung

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ~Martin Heidegger

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felt the pinch therefore I exist

brewed coffee makes a great statement vs instant, it just doesn’t make the cut

“When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Climbing Out Of Bed

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ~Charles Bukowski

a thought

and so it goes. so it goes…

Wrong Planet

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?” ~ George Harrison – Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001

Majority Of Men

“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. ~Carl Jung

Realistic Fiction

“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin – Author, Born: October 21, 1929

Afternoon Naps

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” ~ Barbara Jordan

We think to much and feel to little. ~Charlie Chaplin

“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie

Music may not make you a genius …..

“Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.” Joanne Lipman

For What Its Worth

Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing.

Problems of the world…..

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

Thinking Silently

thinking silently a smattering of thoughts are swirling in my mind nothing bad nothing harmful nothing slanderous just normal thinking that I usually do throughout the course of the day

Thinking

brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas

Just Thinking

nobody ever said that writing comes easy

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka

Thinking

“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.” – Slavoj Žižek

Today

Today was a strange day Woke this morning thinking that today was Saturday but it turned out to be Friday IT was eerily a quiet day odd for a Friday Come tomorrow it being Saturday I should be back to a normal human self

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“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” – Albert Einstein

Three Things

“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” – Jim Valvano

Robots

I don’t thing the robots are taking over. I think the men who plays with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. -Ray Bradbury

Mainstream Media

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Life

Life consists in what a man is thinking all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cookies And Milk

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -Barbara Jordan

I Write Differently …. – Franz Kafka

Margaret Mead On Thinking

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Jack Kerouac

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. Jack Kerouac

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato

Allen Ginsberg On Poetry

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Just Thinking

There’s the saying(s) “time goes by to fast,’ “where did the time go?’ “time sure flies when you are having fun,” etc, etc. If you ever want time to go by slow, pull up a chair, sit, relax and give the clock your undivided attention, and witness time passing by. Call it meditation by clock.

A Pondering Moment

Sitting on the couch writing this post while watching TV or is the TV watching me Could it be I am doing both It could be that I am multitasking Its not really a complicated thing to do What I have been watching for most of the day Blue Bloods and Seinfeld Speaking of Seinfeld …

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George Carlin Quote

I do this real moron thing, it’s called thinking, and I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinion. George Carlin

The Paper Napkin Chronicles

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Existence

“You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.” –Frank Herbert

Just Thinking

Snow is white. When it melts, it’s colorless drops of water. —— A Pondering Mind 9/20/2014

Just Thinking

There are no two clouds that look the same.

Wisdom

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Dogs make you …..

Dogs make you walk. Politics makes you think. Only boredom makes you old. Barbara Anne Castle October 6, 1910 – May 3, 2002 British politician

Power

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Music

Music is the art of thinking with sounds. –Jules Combarieu

Reality

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We may believe ……

We may believe that we know what another person is thinking, but most often our efforts at ‘mind reading’ are projections of our own inner, self-centered concerns. — Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff

Thinking

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. — Jack Kerouac

“Stop thinking,…” – Lao Tzu

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.” – Lao Tzu

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Zen does not confuse… – Alan Watts

We are what we think. …

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The trouble is… – Buddha

Our Life Is Shaped By Our Mind… – The Buddha

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. – The Buddha