“Thinking is not doing.”

— Ron English

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 2, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Thinking is not doing." by Ron English?

Ron English 183

American artist 1959

Related quotes

“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”

Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician

13 June, 2017
As President, 2017
Source: Telecinco https://www.telecinco.es/informativos/mocion-censura-mariano-rajoy-lapsus-pifias-trabalenguas-pp-partido-popular-presidente-gobierno-espana-podemos-pablo-iglesias_2_2386680191.html

“If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”

Lydia Davis (1947) American writer

“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 53
1910s

“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Variant: Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

“I do think they [the EU] understand there's an opportunity to do a deal. I think it's going to be touch and go.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

2010s, 2019
Source: Brexit: Johnson accused of ‘gaslighting’ voters amid claims he offered nothing new in EU meeting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-boris-johnson-donald-tusk-meeting-g7-summit-a9078646.html (26 August 2019)