I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can’t be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn’t discuss media coverage. 730
We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that. 692
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. 594
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It’s always something you’re thinking about unconsciously. 2.16K
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. 608
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. 2.09K
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person. 2.31K
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when someone tapped gently at his door. 651
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. 2.18K
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. 2.22K
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they’ve changed overnight. 596
In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. 629
The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn’t really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I’m gay know. 1.45K
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. 1.37K
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. 597
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. 667
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. 639
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. 963
