Thinking Quotes - Page 1227

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.

And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.

I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.