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“If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and a sense of well-being, they would never think to hurt another human being. They would be filled with an understanding of others and an appreciation of others and have an ability to reconcile differences without any violence whatsoever, to reconcile differences in a very loving way, a very happy way.”

“I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.”

Thinking Mind Heart Winning Lines Ability Behinds Enemy Special Heart And Mind

Author:Conor Oberst

“All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.”

People Thinking Should Children Made Done Ability Television Window Damage Household Small Child

Author:Laurie Colwin

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.”

People Thinking Mean Helping Use America Next Ability Company Poverty Millions Our Lives Talent Despair Gains Resources Innovation Trapped Great American Talents And Abilities

Author:Marco Rubio

“I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.”

Thinking Way I Can Care Games Ability Excited Selfish New Ways Who Cares Make You Think

Author:Norman Mailer

“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Thinking Turns Culture Parent Voice Ability Teacher Who You Are Critical Turn Off

Author:Robert Greene

“There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.”

Thinking Feels Moments Sound Sleep Ability Baby Goes On Lucky Conversation Findings Lonely Boring Bitter Bored Paris Jealous Spares Unnatural Resent Spare Time Consoling

Author:David Nicholls

“The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available.”

“I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.”

Thinking Men Persons Fall Black Ability White Falling In Love Protestants Black Person

Author:Ally Sheedy

“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”

Thinking Important Problem Ability Possibility Communication Skills Capacity Solve Critical Collaboration Academic Critical Thinking New Possibilities

Author:Tony Wagner

“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Stories Problem Ability Written Car Draws Hollywood Meetings Silly Insane Buying Despise Mechanic Pitching

Author:Jess Walter

“We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.”

Thinking Want Ability Talent Personality Patterns Determine Our Thoughts Inclination Habitual Talents And Abilities

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice”

Thinking Ability Practice Piano Violin

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.”

Thinking Way Country Life Is Community Ability Imagine Holes Climbs Better Life Better Ways

Author:Deval Patrick

“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.”

Thinking Knows Should Trying May Care Ability Issues Subjects Effects Position Particular Planets Scientist Addresses Broads Equilibrium Greenhouses General Public Visibility

Author:Richard Lewontin

“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”

Thinking Feels Writing Problem Natural Ability Five Too Much Thousand Opposites Paragraph Natural Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.”

Thinking Important Difficult Ability Skills Difficult Times Find Me

Author:Tony Robbins

“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”

Thinking Reason Language Ability Misunderstanding Crux

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.”

Thinking Given Ability Fields Research Boxes Conventional Handicaps Conventional Wisdom Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.”

Thinking Wells Mean Use Ability Land Source Waste Winter Oil Forests Touching Crops Usage Sewage Biofuels

Author:Vinod Khosla

“I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.”

Thinking Writing Mind Kind Able Ability Notion Solve Enormous Mysterious Stakes Puzzles Riddle Mysterious Benedict Society

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.”

Thinking Eye Ability Brain Beams Of Light

Author:Daniel Mazia

“Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.”

Thinking Littles Facts Ability Careful Be Careful Decline Childlike Physical Ability

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.”

People Thinking World Want Years Looks I Can Ends Done Happens My Own Ability Talking Laughing Five Player Cups League Five Years Trust Me World Cup Premier League Strikers

Author:Nicklas Bendtner

“Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.”

Thinking Facts Ability Tasks Gym Consumption Rats Alcoholics Degrading Gym Rats

Author:Clay Shirky

“I think everyone has the ability to be loved.”

Thinking Ability

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.”

Thinking May Country Sometimes Feelings Able Song Turns Strong Ability Love Is Proud Musical Intense Hopefully Memorable Very Strong Surprising Strong Feeling Musical Ability Proud American

Author:John Fogerty

“The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Problem Seems Care America Values Actors Ability Fields Concerned

Author:Lauren Bacall

“When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.”

Thinking Way Done Jobs Work Ability

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Writing Mind Ends Facts Problem Might Left Ability Opinion Events Cry Solutions Paid Solve Bunch Print Comment Blast Clutter Tick

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”

Ifs Thinking Men Country States Character Ability Doubt Judging Lows South Fallen Disgrace Benches Judiciary Federal Judges

Author:William Howard Taft

“If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Matter Remember Human Beings Ability Animal Mankind Intelligence Immortal

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.”

People Thinking Ability Politeness Tact Ability To See

Author:Carl Zuckmayer

“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”

Thinking Should Firsts Doe Ability Pay Principles Universal Determine Committed Critical Access Medical

Author:Stephen Harper

“I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.”

Thinking Writing Ability Incapable

Author:Kenny Hickey

“I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.”

Thinking Knows Want Giving Trying Wells Heart I Can Moments Past Choices Lost Ability Tragedy Breathe Thirty Emptiness Void Lungs Consumed Find Me Choose Life

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.”

Thinking Ability Consciousness Alive Awareness Curious Awake About Yourself Furious

Author:Maxine Greene

“I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Humanity Fall Found Women Religious Loss Ability Involved Be Kind Fabric Domination Falling Apart Subordinates Embedded Patronizing

Author:William P. Young

“I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.”

Thinking Firsts Ability Civilization Conversation Polite Prerequisites Polite Conversation

Author:W. H. Auden

“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”

Thinking Men Littles Causes Differences Ability Weakness Importance Infinite Stupidity Distinction One Man Organs Mistaken Ugliness

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Actors Lost Ability Performances Chosen Thrust Public Life Spotlight

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.”

Thinking Mean Important Suffering Ability Compassion Empathy Appreciate Various Factors Developing

Author:Dalai Lama

“Friends enhance our ability to think and act.”

Thinking Ability

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.”

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