Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes

I like to take my time with things.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I choose my roles carefully.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.

I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.