Julie Christie Quotes

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I like to take information in and let it percolate.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.

I'm not a very analytical person.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.