Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

English Director

Enya

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

Irish Musician

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

German Businessman

Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Scottish Author

Mitch Hedberg

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

American Comedian

Emma Roberts

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

American Actress

Margaret Cavendish

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

English Writer

Roger Penrose

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

English Physicist

Artie Lange

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

American Actor

Edan Lepucki

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

American Novelist

Use 'ponder' when you need to express a deeper level of thought than just 'thinking'.

Deep Reflection

'Ponder' implies you're spending a considerable amount of time on the thought process.

Time-Intensive

Commonly, 'ponder' is used for serious, often personal or philosophical topics.

Serious Matters

Use 'ponder' when considering different facets before making a decision or judgment.

Decision Making

'Ponder' indicates the process of thinking with the aim of resolving something.

Resolution In Mind

When pondering, a person is often internally debating or wrestling with an idea.

Internal Debate

 I took out the rock that had nearly brained me before and gave it a hard ponder. The size of the rising bump on my conk said to me that this thing had area, and a lot of it. But what if I carved out a triangle from this side here? As any mook could see, this triangle had a quarter of the area of the full triangle.

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 You now have evidence of the origin and extinction of species over time. Get uniformitarian. Maybe a process still active today caused changes not just in rocks but in life. It might also explain similarities and differences between species found by anatomists like Steno. It's a lot to ponder,

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 I love for you to ponder do you want to be an attention grabber or an attention giver you want to be future focused or do you want to be fully present and finally and most importantly you only be Pavlovian or do you want to be truly responsive to the people around you that

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 allowing air to rush in. So the next time you take a deep breath, think of the unfathomable number of air molecules you're commanding to move. We look up at the night sky to ponder the infinity of space, but unless you're watching this video from that deep space,

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 to tell us what the product of the first three terms is. We're now finding exoplanets almost everywhere. The fractions dealing with life and intelligence and technological civilizations are ones that many, many experts ponder,

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 First, we teach them to see. Then, they help us to see better. For the first time, human eyes won't be the only ones pondering and exploring our world. We will not only use the machines for their intelligence,

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 his novel’s success in the world of his characters. This unconventional meta-awareness created philosophical complexity, as the knight and his squire ponder the meaning of their story.

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 a better life this is again something to ponder we're six and a half billion people on the planet why should we care about narang eaten for god sakes two

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 What keeps you up at night? Pondering deep questions? Excitement about a big trip? Or is it stress about unfinished work, an upcoming test,

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 know is is a great piece of literature it's a great piece of prose and it contains a really profound truth that's worth pondering Harry