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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. -- Stephen Covey
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone. -- Robert Genn
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 some one tapped gently at his door. -- Alexandre Dumas
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. -- Walter Scott
Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it. -- Asafa Powell
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person. -- Bernadette Peters
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. -- George Santayana
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. -- Stephen Hawking
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership. -- Marilyn Nelson
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. -- Chief Joseph
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. -- Steve Carell
Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about? -- Dawn French
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days. -- William Clay Ford, Jr.
The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson
I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years. -- Deborah Kass
I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain. -- Ildar Abdrazakov
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill. -- Parvesh Cheena
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. -- Dylan Thomas
The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you. -- Laurie Helgoe
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby! -- Matthew Perry
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem. -- Joyce Meyer
Hey kid...Im thinking of you! Keep the faith! Youre never alone. -- SQuire Rushnell
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. -- Anthony Trollope
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, -- Stephen Hawking
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -- George Bernard Shaw
There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home. -- Heather Brewer
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. -- Aldous Huxley
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly. -- Orson Scott Card
Think big, and don't stop at thinking big alone. Attempt to achieve what you think. That's the difference between dreamers and achievers. -- Constance Chuks Friday
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface. -- Ellen Glasgow
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone. -- Mitch Albom
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out. -- Vin Scully
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange. -- Lisa Kleypas
Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. -- Franz Grillparzer
Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be. -- Douglas Adams
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action. -- Shantideva
I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation. -- Wayne Coyne
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking. -- Catherynne M. Valente
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. -- Jane Austen

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