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Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. -- Robert Martin
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. -- Malcolm Forbes
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. -- George Pataki
Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small. -- Christina Baker Kline
I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?' -- Trinny Woodall
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. -- Nicholson Baker
Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry? -- Thomas Bangalter
I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do. -- Lori Greiner
I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well. -- Vikram Seth
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. -- LL Cool J
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. -- Niklaus Wirth
I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious. -- Hannah Murray
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. -- Orlando Bloom
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time. -- David Lipsky
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. -- Gertrude Stein
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. -- Kim Gordon
I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting. -- Anders Hejlsberg
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking. -- Kate Winslet
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. -- Sol LeWitt
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next? -- Andrew McCarthy
Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing. -- John C. Maxwell
I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours. -- Michael Thomas Ford
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. -- Peter Jackson
To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking. -- Nir Eyal
Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking. -- Deborah Tannen
Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing -- Robin Sharma
I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy. -- Rachel Weisz
Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. -- Doris Lessing
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good. -- Eric Clapton
When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking. -- Roger von Oech
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. -- Theodore Levitt
People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things. -- Erik Weihenmayer
Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff. -- Jamie Bell
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing. -- Jennifer Westfeldt
Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up. -- J. Lynn
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. -- Paul Krugman
You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing. -- Helen Van Wyk
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. -- George R. R. Martin
Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it. -- Henry Ford
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. -- Olafur Eliasson
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing -- Stephenie Meyer
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. -- Sue Grafton
Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition. -- Bill Mollison
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. -- Stephen Shore
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God. -- Thomas Yellowtail
The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. -- Terry Pratchett
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. -- Myles Munroe
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley
My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence). -- Barbara Hepworth
I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. -- Namsoon Kang
I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. -- Kim Ji-woon
These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking. -- Marianne Williamson
My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. -- Rajneesh
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. -- Grenville Kleiser
Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young. -- Doyle Brunson
Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world. -- DeWayne Owens
I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all. -- Nicolas Jaar
Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way. -- Hal Elrod
I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well. -- Monica Youn
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. -- Anna Quindlen
Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation. -- Matt Cutts
Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it. -- Branch Rickey
Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing. -- Sam Snead
I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something. -- Jonathan Glazer
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do. -- Eddie Campbell
You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right? -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?' -- Georgette Mosbacher
I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it. -- Ryan Guzman
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things. -- Bill Mollison
The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. -- Ajay Naidu
There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things. -- Alexander Dale Oen
I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?' -- Jack Kerouac
It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think. -- Hannah Arendt
I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. -- Daniel Rossen
You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes. -- Jane Goodall
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out. -- Robin Trower
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. -- Alain de Botton
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough. -- Douglas Horton
My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower. -- Liane Moriarty
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you -- Oprah Winfrey
In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking. -- George Raveling
The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking. -- Peter Senge
I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking. -- David Duchovny
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. -- Virginia Cary Hudson
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting. -- Keith Stanfield
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger. -- Miuccia Prada
Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. -- Hannah Arendt
Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem. -- Rick Warren
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. -- Rudolf Flesch
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. -- Nick Saban
When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do. -- Brigid Brannagh
Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization. -- Tom Rath
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' -- Daniel Woodrell
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. -- Hill Harper
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else. -- Magnus Carlsen
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking. -- Robin S
At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is. -- Michel Foucault
I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom. -- Toba Beta
It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals. -- Thomas S. Monson
What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive. -- Tom Odell
If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden. -- Kris Allen
A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking! -- Kevin Heath
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God -- J. C. Ryle
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling. -- Meg Rosoff
One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking. -- Eckhart Tolle
I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking. -- Lil B
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing. -- Charlie Chaplin
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time. -- William James
Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one. -- Chris Benz
I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers. -- Tyra Banks

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