Thinking Quotes - Page 491

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all your other feelings, every time you think of her, or hear her voice in your head, or remember a happy time together, you realize she's still a part of you and will never be totally gone.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.