Best ability & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

People Thinking World Children Ability Psychology Examining Prodigious Life Living

Author:Jodie Foster

“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.”

Thinking I Can Happens Ability Comedy Wife Achievement Approach My Wife Working Women

Author:Nick Offerman

“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.”

Thinking Years Art Ability Five Fields Make Sense Martial Arts

Author:Jet Li

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Thinking Writing Trying Character Ability Vacation Sensibility Another Time

Author:Ron Rash

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Looks Three Ability Four Havens Consumers Online Four Years

Author:Stuart Rose

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

People Thinking Self Running Ability Successful Focus Taught Thread Successful People Self Taught

Author:Fred L. Turner

“I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.”

Thinking Years Sports Ability Independent Theatre

Author:Jack Wagner

“As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.”

People Thinking Want Enjoy Ability Judged Being Judged

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”

Thinking Should Self Action Ability Self Esteem Overcoming Self Confidence Esteem Delusion

Author:Shantideva

“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.”

People Thinking Years Stills Country Ability Watches Television Tvs Internet Wide Inches Foreign Countries Csi

Author:Leslie Moonves

“When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.”

Thinking Kind Art Girl Ability Martial Arts Really Cool Karate

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.”

Thinking Feels May Important Self Ability Keys Mouths Tools Defense Fats Allowing Mechanism Sane Self Defense Starks Being Funny Uncontrollable Defense Mechanisms

Author:Jen Lancaster

“I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.”

Thinking World Different Culture Ability Starting Privilege Different Cultures

Author:Chris Cornell

“I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.”

Thinking Littles Two Ability Perfect Pieces Minutes Arms Speed Release Quarterback Montana Poise

Author:Peyton Manning

“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”

Thinking Men Simple Ability Achieve Paper Decent Pens Yarn

Author:Graham Moore

“Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.”

Thinking Language Ability Concepts Manipulate

Author:Leslie Lamport

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”

Thinking Feels Long Art Soul Moments Able Goal Ability Secret Oneness Readiness Realisation Inhale Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.”

People Thinking Sometimes Used Strong Easy Voice Ability Common Effects Instruments Core Used To Be These Days Underrated Craftsmanship

Author:Victoria Legrand

“The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.”

Thinking Knows Grows Ability Greater Wake Up You Think You Know Waking Up Early

Author:Hal Elrod

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“You can travel with the speed of thought! You just think you're on Jupiter and you're there, boom! You just think you're on Saturn and you're there, boom! You just think you're on the nearest star and you're there, boom! You don't have to have transporters, spaceships or speed of light or anything, you're just there like that! So we will have the might and the power of angels and the speed and the ability and we will be ruling and reigning spirits with resurrected bodies, but spiritual bodies which have enormous angelic powers like the angels of God, like Jesus when He was resurrected!”

Thinking Body Light Might Spiritual Spirit Jesus Stars Ability Angel Speed Enormous Heavenly Ruling Spaceships Angelic Jupiter Saturn Speed Of Light

Author:David Berg

“I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.”

Thinking Play Feelings Ability

Author:John Frusciante

“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Moments Stuff Ability Scene Pages Spontaneity

Author:Ben Stiller

“A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.”

People Thinking Ability Labor Fruit Entitled

Author:Paul Solman

“It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.”

Thinking World Book Ability

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.”

Thinking Way Ideas Running Courses Loses Ability Pride Findings Tools Combination Rebel Formal Strict New Thought Rigidity

Author:Gregory Bateson

“The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.”

Thinking Ability Class

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.”

Thinking Way Want Firsts Ability Steps Rich Acquire First Steps Get Rich Visualization

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.”

Thinking Want Giving Ability Dog Exercise Perception Areas Abandon Accurate Tails Blanche

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.”

Thinking Giving Problem Faith Peace Loses Ability Emotion Situation Worry Cold Filled Worried Heat Filling Ruthless Gloom Scrutiny Apprehension

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.”

Thinking Doe Faith Ability Lord Raises Bread Etc Grain Pigs Leading Me

Author:Brigham Young

“I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities.”

Thinking Ability Practice Meditation Seeing Quiet Psychics Innate Psychic Abilities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.”

Thinking Way Mind Ability Seeing Periods Structure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.”

Thinking Writing Humans Ability Creativity Wonderful Special Singing Areas Something Special Writing Music

Author:Kim Gordon

“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.”

People Thinking Littles Would Be Ability Acting Advice Instinct Access

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.”

Thinking Ideas Reason Bits Ability Clear Nice Beats Priorities Logical Clear Thinking Bright Ideas

Author:Carroll Smith

“You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.”

Thinking Mind May Mean Long Ability Gone Goes On Losing Losing Your Mind

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”

Thinking Men Feels Mind Heart May Ability Accepting He Man Determine Nevertheless Intimidating

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.”

“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.”

Ifs Thinking Ability Creativity Environment Written Details Designer Description Minimum Playwright Input Playwriting

Author:August Wilson

“As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.”

Thinking Moving Ability Results Coaches

Author:Brad Stevens

“The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.”

Source: Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government.”

Thinking Feels Mean Important Government President Ability Roles Equal Understood Court Congress Supreme Branches Supreme Court Branches Of Government Congress And The President

Author:Rick Santorum

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