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“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”

Thinking Men Needs Philosophy Age Difficult Goal Term Ability Absence Vanity Aspiration Denied Academic Malady Irreligion Wrong Thinking

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati

“Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that.”

Thinking Want Littles Done Action Stuff Ability Groups Athlete Couches Great Athlete

Author:Dusty Rhodes

“I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.”

Thinking Feels Hands Ability Comfortable Tough Balls Defense Score Teammate Point Guard

Author:Willie Green

“I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.”

People Thinking Looks Important Ends Ability Greater Pursuit Motivated

Author:Anne Sweeney

“I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.”

Thinking Want Feels Hard Goal Ability Quality Leader Careers Focus Hard Work Female Males Missions Noise Nonsense Interfere Goal Oriented

Author:Anne Sweeney

“I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.”

Thinking Has Beens Stories Able Order Ability Skills Happenings Scientist Excited

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Has Beens Whole Able Bits Water Ability Careers Laughing Comedy Nice Little Bit Give Me Whole World Hopefully Tricky Negotiating Hopefully Not

Author:Anna Faris

“I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.”

Thinking Way Mean Term Ability Civilization Capacity My Way Bridges Way Of Thinking Advanced Civilization

Author:George Carlin

“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.”

Thinking Knows World Want Firsts Made Stills Matter Character Facts Film Ability Watches Audience Type Directors Storytelling Despite Aliens Mastery Another World

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.”

People Thinking Knows May Easy Difficult Sound Ability Figures Habit Creatures Bad Habits Habitual Ability To Change

Author:Eva Mendes

“Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment.”

Thinking Moments Ability Depends Degrees That Moment Emerging Ability To Choose

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Character Fall Process Ability Falling In Love Valuable Actresses Interfere

Author:Meryl Streep

“I was really impressed with Naomi [Watts]. She was a producer, and she was doing things that I wasn't really aware of. The way she was able to switch from handling problems to shoot a really difficult scene, I think is a real testament to her true ability.”

Thinking Way Real Problem Able Difficult Ability Scene Producers Impressed Testament Handling Problems

Author:Michael Pitt

“If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Age Ability Numbers Environment

Author:Andre Agassi

“I do a lot of weird movies that maybe you don't like and I experiment a lot but maybe I do appreciate the process and I think my greatest joy in this business is that I have had the ability to screw up in a lot of really interesting films!”

Thinking Film Joy Process Ability Interesting Appreciate Experiments Screws Really Interesting Screw Ups

Author:Josh Hartnett

“I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.”

People Thinking Knows Way Humans Different Real Character Action Film Ability Clear Expression Flawed Animated Action Movie Uncomplicated Animated Films

Author:Steve Martin

“We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.”

Thinking Way Should Universe Ability Space Cost Limits Driven Exploration New Ways Rockets Space Exploration Elevators Space Travel Lasers Microwaves

Author:Michio Kaku

“I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.”

Thinking Ideas Real Ability Band Originals Instruments Thrive Original Ideas

Author:Tom Waits

“I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.”

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.”

People Ifs Thinking Way States Reason Use Running Ability Talking Planets Resources Encouragement Leaving Stealing Reason Why Talking Heads

Author:Alice Walker

“Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.”

Thinking Way Hard Play Ability Structure Architecture

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.”

People Thinking Should Heart Art Ability Ordinary Art Is Should Have Mysterious Elites Ordinary People

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.”

People Thinking Black Ability Survival Core Black People Aesthetics

Author:August Wilson

“There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.”

People Thinking Humans Play Use Games Language Ability Evolution Couple Comfortable Tools Zero Human Evolution Zero Sum Game Watersheds

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.”

Thinking Persons Bigs Ability Mistake Honest Dog Integrity Capable Agree Loyal Loving You Encyclopedia Big Mistake

Author:Cesar Millan

“Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.”

People Thinking Ideas War Certain Ability Conversation Beats Complicated Ridiculous Progressive Upbringing Affinity

Author:Anne Waldman

“I think the greatest part about being an entrepreneur is the ability to create what you like and do it the way you want. You don't have to listen to anyone else or follow any instructions and that control is what entrepreneurship is all about.”

Thinking Way Want Ability Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Instruction

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.”

Thinking Today Purpose Ability Organization Structure Critical Employee Productive Capability Morphology

Author:Dave Ulrich

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.”

Ifs Thinking Use Ability Materials Communicate Ability To Communicate

Author:Marc Quinn

“I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.”

Thinking Littles Long Made Reason Body Care Able Lasts Ability Player Blessed Luck Little Things Athleticism

Author:Champ Bailey

“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Ability Forget Consciousness Effects Self Help Function Ill Producers

Book:You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Source: You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

“In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.”

Thinking Moving Ability Walks Emotion Kindness Focus Trump Limits Revenge Moving Forward Outlook Positively Walks Of Life Counterproductive Upbeat Think Positively Unproductive

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“They are able who think they are able.”

Thinking Able Ability Empowerment Psychics

Author:Virgil

“Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature”

Thinking Individual Term Ability Rooms Lord Ought Unique Billions Ems Standing Out

Author:Herbert Simon

“And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.”

Thinking Knows World May Littles Facts Able Stars Ability Consciousness Anxiety Tricks Versions Clarity Curious Alternatives Narrative Carrie Permit Crowded Spray Secured Mazes Luxurious

Author:Carol Shields

“I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.”

Thinking Men Way Bigs Running Today Ability Shots Block Posts Range Nba

Author:Doug Collins

“Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, .. I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies.”

“Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.”

Thinking World Writing Trying Wells Dream Lines Ability Compassion Careers Teaching Fine Draws Reserves Fine Lines Dream World

Author:Andre Dubus

“When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."”

Thinking Knows Needs Enough Body Happens Grows Ability Cutting Arms Bigger Size Your Body Signals Banking Liver Regeneration Donors Nutrients Transplants Starfish

Author:John Roberts

“There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.”

Thinking Believe Given Ability Bears Capacity Tradition Endure

Author:Robin Roberts

“I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.”

Thinking Mind Feelings Beautiful Song Force Ability Inspire Music Is Wave Intuitive

Author:Serj Tankian

“I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.”

People Thinking World Mind Heart Ability Inspire Changing The World Power To Change Power To Change The World

Author:Serj Tankian

“I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Humans Looks Important Play Character Inspiration Human Beings Ability Youth Regret Development Advantage

Author:Nina Dobrev

“I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.”

People Thinking Persons Use Earth Ability Space Minutes Projects Ethics Dollars Various Spending Flight Wealthy Space Flight

Author:Arthur Frommer

“I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.”

People Ifs Thinking Character Hands Simple Ability Special Design Relate Animation Character Design

Author:Tomm Moore

“Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Reason Stuff Ability Pay Proud Offers Strategy Realising Do The Best

Author:Salma Hayek

“I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.”

People Thinking Kind May Night Dark Ability Supportive Dark Night Ability To Change

Author:Sam Keen

“Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.”

People Thinking Eye Ability Credit Related Good People

Author:Roger Ailes

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