Thinking Time Quotes

When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

In my job, I have many operations, so I tend to use time in my car to think. I get in the car after work and drive all night -11 hours, Vancouver to Banff.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.