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
Tag Thinking
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
Thinking #2
felt the pinch
therefore I exist
Thinking
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
Thinking
“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
Born: March 24, 1919
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
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
Thinking
Thinking
Thinking
Thinking: the
talking of the
soul with itself.
Plato
Allen Ginsberg On Poetry
Thinking
Source: Wordables
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
I still laugh watching
Jerry and the gang
as it’s one of the
best TV sitcoms
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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Thinking
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
Thinking
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
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
Beautiful Girl Thinking
Beautiful Girl Thinking
Zen does not confuse… – Alan Watts
We are what we think. …
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
What A Pigeon Thinks About
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