“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

— Dave Barry , book Peter and the Starcatchers

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

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“Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

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“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

“It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind.”

Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) American journalist

Preface
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943)

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”

George Will (1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author

Quoted in A Ford Not A Lincoln (1975), Richard Reeves, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ch, 1 ; as cited by The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p. 707 ISBN 0231071949
1970s

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

Bertrand Russell book The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.”

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

“The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up…. He has no discipline.”

Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician

Washington Post interview (1994)

“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

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