“If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.”

George S. Patton, General U. S. Army

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain

"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

Buddha

"When you are not told what to do you begin to think what to do."

Roger Cohen, Op-Ed Columnist New York Times

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

Voltaire

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

"You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think."

Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

Winnie the Pooh

"Time to think matters ─ at least if we’re interested in getting the answers right."

Stephen L. Carter

"Thinking is always out of order, interrupts all ordinary activities and is interrupted by them."

Hannah Arendt, Life of the Mind

"Too often we…enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John F. Kennedy

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

Will Durant

"Thinking is like living and dying. Each of us must do it for himself."

Josiah Royce

"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory."

G. Behn

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

Albert Einstein

"Pursuing our thoughts in silent contemplation takes an investment in time that few can spare."

Stephen L. Carter

"A moment’s thinking is an hour in words."

Thomas Hood

"Sometimes I think and other times I am."

Paul, Variete: Cantiques spirituels 192

"To think is to differ."

Darrow

"To think is to live."

Cicero

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

William Jones

"What we think, we become."

Buddha

"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."

Anonymous

"The person who thinks before he speaks is silent most of the time."

Anonymous

"Think ─ and you will be very lonely."

Anonymous

"Thought is action in rehearsal."

Anonymous

"We live in a world that leaves very little time to contemplate."

Anonymous

"Don’t worry too much about what people think because they seldom do."

Anonymous

"Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest."

Anonymous

"One cannot think crooked and walk straight."

Anonymous

"Think Differently + Do Things Differently = Better Results"

Anonymous

December 19, 2013

A Life Story

The New York Times is reporting that E-book sales have been flat or in decline for most of 2013. They’re actually down 3 percent from August of 2012. Could it be that hard cover books and independent book stores might be making a dramatic comeback during the final breathless shopping days until Christmas? I hope so. But if you’re looking for a fascinating read for the price of a newspaper, try reading one-and-done biographies with no chance of a sequel: the daily obituaries.

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December 03, 2013

Revisionist History

A friend of mine recounted a story of taking her 12-year old niece Haley to dinner to celebrate her sister Sophia's 8th birthday.  Haley mentioned that some celebrity was born the same day as she was.  Not to be outdone, Sophia announced that she shared the same birthday as the 19th president of the United States. Impressed, her aunt said, "Really? Who was the 19th president of the United States?"  Without missing a beat Sophia replied, "John Wilkes Booth!" Funny, right? Maybe not…

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November 26, 2013

What’s Not to Like

Our local business publication runs a CEO Profile feature that always asks the question, “What is the one word that best describes you?”  The C-level answers tend to be perfunctory: leader, focused, driven, passionate, curious. The usual suspects. In thinking about my own response to that question, I have to say the one word that comes to mind for me is grateful.

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