Sustained Shared Thinking Quotes

#1. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

Rufus Wainwright

#2. I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.

Shailene Woodley

#3. Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Vera John-Steiner

#4. The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

Mark Driscoll

#5. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.

Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

#6. It's always easy to be what you are-- What's hard is to be what you want to be.

Spiderman

#7. We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

Esther Hicks

#8. Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

Seth

#9. Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.

Marcel Duchamp

#12. A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.

Anuj

#13. The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Alec Soth

#14. Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.

M.H. Rakib

#15. Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Malcolm Muggeridge