Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that her abilities or qualifications would ever be questioned.
If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.
The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.
