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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. -- Horace
We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born. -- Jeff Yass
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all. -- Ben Stein
Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed. -- Larry Burkett
And did you have to hack his arms off?" "Yes, I did. He wouldn't go through the door." "You say it like you're proud of it." I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation. -- Ilona Andrews
Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home. -- Billy Evans
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough. -- Wellington Mara
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. -- Daniel Goleman
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. -- Stephen Covey
I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage. -- Patsy Cline
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think. -- Yoko Ono
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. -- Dean Kamen
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. -- Max Beerbohm
The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered. -- David Perry
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. -- Jim Fowler
You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors. -- Andrew Shue
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! -- James Finn Garner
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up. -- Mary Grandpre
I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. -- Susanna Kearsley
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly. -- Steve Case
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution. -- Glenn Greenwald
I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?' -- Mary Roach
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is. -- Bobby Flay
It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified. -- Robert Redford
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent. -- Diana Quick
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking. -- John C. Maxwell
What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! -- Rick Yancey
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me? -- Bette Greene
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography. -- Nicolas Winding Refn

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