Tom Glazer Quotes

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

To live is to think.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

I try not to be overly analytical.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

Maybe I think too much.

I'm constantly thinking.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.