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“Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.”

Thinking Spirit Ability Boxes Australia Free Spirit Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Brian Schmidt

“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”

People Thinking Should Humans Wish Ability Havens Circumstances Degrees Dignity Hopefully Someday Discovering Wish You

Author:Rachel Corrie

“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”

Thinking Men Country Matter Reason Form Freedom Ability Opinion Speech Concern Every Man Stations Free Country

Author:Edmund Burke

“This is the eighth game in the series and when we work on a Mario Kart title, we work on courses and we create them and then we work on them again, and again, and again, and we revise until we come up with something that we think is going to be fun for everyone to play over and over again. So we have a lot of confidence in our ability to do so, but we understand what a tough challenge it is to create those courses.”

Thinking Play Courses Games Fun Challenges Ability Tough Series Come Up Titles Again And Again Mario Mario Kart

Author:Hideki Konno

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.”

Thinking Knows Way Sometimes Play Found Games Ability Mines Balls Caught All Time Supposed To Be Ran Right Thing Dull Idols Right Way

Author:Hank Aaron

“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.”

Thinking Way Ability Numbers Creativity Talent Depends Skills Capacity Including Dry Spells New Ways Technical Skills

Author:Teresa Amabile

“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.”

“Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.”

People Thinking Feels Humans Moments Turns Human Beings Ability Struggle Creative Worst Circumstances Built Jazz Dialogue Teamwork Attributes Human Experience Constructive Admirable Fiber

Author:Herbie Hancock

“If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Would Be Together Spirituality Ability Hero Picks Curiosity Size Seeking Genuine

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”

Thinking Knows Men Littles Important Different Action Ability One Thing Tasks Pressure Threat Dear Great Men One Time Really Great Little Man Smallness Pettiness

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.”

People Thinking Want Mean Littles Kids Artist Girl Fighting Ability Results Harder Rejection Dancer Unnecessary

Author:Laurieann Gibson

“It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.”

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”

Thinking World Way Should Children Ideas Home Hurt Ability Views Personality Elements Caring Point Of View Curious Toxic Should I It Hurts Allowance Positive Things Home Life

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.”

Thinking Knows Years Important Ability Player Trust Me Footballer Ability To Adapt

Author:Alex Ferguson

“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”

People Thinking Way Self Individual Ability Changed Communication Mass Self Absorbed

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.”

Thinking Persons Stills Used Given Ability Situation Known Sitting Sitting Still

Author:Trey Songz

“I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.”

People Thinking Ability Decision Judging Healthy Direct Intelligent Access Sufficient

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

Ifs Thinking Government Ability Party Doubt Policy Tasks Strategy British Labour Diminish Historic Alliances Irresponsible Programmes Nato Labour Party

Author:Richard Perle

“Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.”

“I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Use Ability Love Is Brain Complexes Focused Pushing

Book:Nancy Crow

Source: Nancy Crow

“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”

Thinking Long Art Artist Imagination My Own Ability Responsibility Gone Concerned Being An Artist

Author:Pierre Coupey

“Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.”

People Thinking Way Humans Mean Different Ends Might Speak Human Beings Ability Doubt Dog Standing Communicate Visuals No Doubt Fur Unfriendly Ability To Speak Communicating With Others

Book:Micromessaging

Source: Micromessaging

“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”

“I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.”

People Thinking Knows Important Young Imagination Ability Teach Creativity Creative Fundamentals Be Creative My Imagination What's Important

Author:Lyle Lovett

“I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general.”

Thinking Long Lasts Guy Sports Ability Long Time League Get Better Sports In General

Author:Tony Romo

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

Thinking Men Opportunity Chance Ability Break Advantage Luck

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.”

People Thinking Knows Trying May Persons Book Able Lying Language Ability Example Truth Is Degrees Sells Crowds Convince Knack Shady

Author:George Orwell

“David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.”

Thinking Giving Helping Shows Chance Ability Football England Bottom Managers Soccer Frustrated Chairman

Author:Glenn Roeder

“Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.”

Thinking Littles Bits Sports Natural Ability Little Bit Yeah Progression

Author:Brian Boitano

“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”

Thinking Humans Asks Language Ability Consequence Sophisticated Spoken Language

Author:Jane Goodall

“The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.”

Thinking Wisdom School Politics Ability Results Economy Generations Western Liberalism Coming Out

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.”

“You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.”

Thinking Men World Way Wells Done Whole Problem Moving Loses Ability Behinds Brain Focus Degrees Perception Behave Tricky Behind You Moving In Whole Picture Multi Tasking Blinkers

Author:Meryl Streep

“One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.”

Thinking Way Giving Children Mother Ability One Thing Have Confidence Great Gifts

Author:John Turturro

“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Character Jobs Film Actors Ability Fit Theater Musical Definitions Accomplished Framework Musical Theater

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

Thinking Should Art Said Happens Actors Given Ability Principles Pieces Advice Fine Speech Yeah Dramatic Subtle Royal Academy Make It Happen Monologues

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.”

Thinking Enough Ability Acting Wonder Magic Movement Shame Tricks Factors Rely Get Away Magician Lighting

Author:David Copperfield

“I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder.”

“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Kind Littles Ideas Courses Actors Bits Ability Acting Know How Week Fronts Drama Directors Six Little Bit Built Cameras Good Ideas Clue

Author:Paddy Considine

“I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.”

Thinking Country States Ability United United States Middle Dangerous Israel Terrorism East Iran Middle East Rockets Missiles

Author:Dutch Ruppersberger

“Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Ability Expectations Focused Bars Consistent Reset

Author:Seth Godin

“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Certain My Own Ability Secret Goes On Essentials Gains Calm Requirements Peace Within Stay Calm

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source: And so it goes

“I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.”

Thinking Ability Accomplishment Occupation Leisure Verses Pastime Refining

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Ability Company Directors Letting Go Artistic Dancer Blank Canvas Choreographers You Think You Know Blank Canvas

Author:Misty Copeland

“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.”

Thinking Important Ideas Social Justice Ability Cities Vision Conditions Balance Resources Social Justice Fundamentals Available Streams Sustainability Citizenship Equity Utopian

Author:William J. Mitchell

“I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.”

Thinking Way Wells Able Ability Talent Television Direct

Author:Frank Whaley