Quotes About Way Of Thinking

#1. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. - Author: Rafael Vinoly

#2. I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life. - Author: Anthony Kiedis

#3. I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues. - Author: Valerie Jarrett

#4. Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally? - Author: Albert Allen Bartlett

#5. We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it. - Author: Tariq Ramadan

#6. I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis. - Author: David Blunkett

#7. We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser. - Author: Yoko Ono

#8. I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go. - Author: David Gelernter

#9. I'd like to think that I'm not just making the point that I'm an atheist over and over, but that I explore different facets of religion. There's no way of bringing up religion without sounding like an asshole. - Author: David Cross

#10. I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things. - Author: Ariel Pink

#11. I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people. - Author: George Carlin

#12. The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains. - Author: Nicholas G. Carr

#13. But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start, because Heidegger forces us in a way that few philosophers do to really think through the seriousness and all-encompassing nature of our mortality. - Author: George Pattison

#14. Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President. - Author: Andrew Jackson

#15. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New - Author: Frank Herbert

#16. People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction. - Author: David Allen

#17. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. - Author: F. Murray Abraham

#18. Polytheism is too delicate a way of thinking for modern minds. - Author: John N. Gray

#19. I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things. - Author: Jim Carrey

#20. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time. - Author: James Van Der Beek

#21. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#22. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any. - Author: Emily Blunt

#23. I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life. - Author: Billie Holiday

#24. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal. - Author: Erica Sehyun Song

#25. Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you. - Author: Rod Judkins

#26. I have gay friends, I support gay rights, I have nothing against the gay community, but when I see two guys kissing, I think it's gross. And, by the way, it's gross when 99% of straight people do it, too. - Author: Artie Lange

#27. Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever. - Author: Dodie Smith

#28. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy. - Author: Tina Fey

#29. In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world. - Author: Gregg Braden

#30. Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others. - Author: Nita Leland

#31. The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way. - Author: Michael J. Fox

#32. I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude. - Author: Karen Abbott

#33. I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what. - Author: Jackie French

#34. One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: You can't do that. - Author: Robert Kiyosaki

#35. When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking. - Author: Robyn

#36. Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example. - Author: Jim Thompson

#37. I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. - Author: Melanie Martinez

#38. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions. - Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah

#39. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then. - Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

#40. Owen remarked The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white ... in magic or in anything to my way of thinking. - Author: Luvelle Raevan

#41. I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money." - Author: Greg Brown

#42. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#43. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you. - Author: Ingrid Betancourt

#44. Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. - Author: Brene Brown

#45. The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation. - Author: Sally Potter

#46. I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable. - Author: Brian Chippendale

#47. I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. - Author: Garth Greenwell

#48. The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Author: Deepak Chopra

#49. When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives. - Author: Bonnie St. John

#50. I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual. - Author: Ravi Zacharias

#51. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. - Author: John Green

#52. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Author: Carl Sagan

#53. A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person. - Author: Kelsey Grammer

#54. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them. - Author: Al Yankovic

#55. If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true. - Author: Nancy Pickard

#56. Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad. - Author: Trevanian

#58. I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it. - Author: Kim Longinotto

#59. America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent." - Author: Hans Zimmer

#60. To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do. - Author: Arlene Croce

#61. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials. - Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#62. The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking - Author: Jacque Fresco

#63. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me. - Author: Penny Reid

#64. Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do. - Author: Patton Oswalt

#65. I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking - Author: Steve Jobs

#66. Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#67. We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists. - Author: Yoweri Museveni

#68. I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song. - Author: Mark Ronson

#69. Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs. - Author: Christine Jennings

#70. [It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants. - Author: William J. Clinton

#71. You've got to stop thinking of me that way. When it's just you and me, I'm not a Five and you're not a Six. We're just Aspen and America. And I don't want anything in the world but you. - Author: Kiera Cass

#72. Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me. - Author: Beyonce Knowles

#73. Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now? - Author: Peter Jennings

#74. I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it. - Author: Akio Morita

#75. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt. - Author: Gretchen Rubin

#76. I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world. - Author: Joseph Boyden

#77. What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him. - Author: Greg Laurie

#78. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future. - Author: Chris Weedon

#79. Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of. - Author: Robin Roberts

#80. But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. - Author: Richard P. Feynman

#81. I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality. - Author: Steve Dildarian

#82. I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way. - Author: Nick Cave

#83. I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We [actors] do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it. - Author: Emily Blunt

#84. The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics. - Author: D.T. Suzuki

#85. Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should. - Author: Todd Burpo

#86. People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way. - Author: Soren Kierkegaard

#87. The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits. - Author: Yann Martel

#88. I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks. - Author: Wanda Sykes

#89. True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less. - Author: Praying Medic

#90. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff. - Author: Oscar Isaac

#91. I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade. - Author: Bret Easton Ellis

#92. Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. - Author: Seth Lloyd

#93. Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. - Author: Grenville Kleiser

#94. I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course. - Author: Paul Lansky

#95. I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing. - Author: Mike Young

#96. I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work. - Author: Giorgio Armani

#97. I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films. - Author: Rick Moody

#98. The only thing that is limiting the blessings of God is our old way of thinking and a - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#99. I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table. - Author: Brendan Rodgers

#100. Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking - Author: Vasily Klyuchevsky