Pondering Time Quotes

#1. The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

John Cleese

#2. Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

John Cleese

#3. Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Corin Tucker

#4. At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Charles Darwin

#5. Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

Deepak Chopra

#6. I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#8. From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

#9. The amount of time you spend pondering over your problems, can be best spent resolving them.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#10. A whole extra bed without a sister to go along with it!

Jeanne Birdsall

#11. During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Mary Renault

#12. The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors.

Victoria Addino

#13. As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

Sanober Khan

#14. Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me...
I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head.

Jennifer Byars

#15. Sorrow and love
life, in other words
cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.

Italo Svevo

#16. When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.

Paolo Maldini

#17. I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

Dean Koontz

#18. That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

Laozi

#19. I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.

Rajeev Shukla

#20. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Tahir Shah

#21. By simply pondering what is good in your life every day, you will find that you're more productive, more relaxed, and more appreciative of your life regardless of what you are balancing at the time.

David Mezzapelle

#22. Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

Richelle Mead

#23. He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

Anne Rice

#24. While they were floundering / I was pondering / 'No more wandering through the dark tunnels of grim determination / For no; it is time to grow in a thousand folded folds, for which we need an infinite fuel!

Nathan Coppedge

#25. It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

James Hunter

#26. Dreams like feet, better than knees

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