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“I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.”

Thinking Ends Play Able Ability Steps

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.”

Thinking Important Stories Moving Wish Ability Mines Moved

Author:Rita Dove

“Start small; Think possibilities; Reach beyond your known abilities; Invest all you have in your dream; Visualize miracles; Expect to experience success.”

Thinking Dream Ability Known Possibility Miracle Your Dreams

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.”

Thinking Culture Ability Lone Rangers Lone Ranger

Author:Arthur D. Hlavaty

“Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.”

Thinking Giving Shows Hands Speak Given Bits Enjoy Hours Ability Liberty Imagine Gratitude Enjoyment Giving Back Hands Of God Ability To See

Book:Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

“All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.”

People Thinking Humans Country Ability Design Objects Tools Instance Awful Buttons Units Extensions Fidelity Inconvenient High Fidelity

Author:Victor Papanek

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”

People Thinking Way Wells Two Ability Trouble Safe Demand Labor Tragedy Luck Brilliant Absence Guts Pessimism Smarter Recognizing Live Well Happy People

Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

“There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Heart Littles Important Together Language Ability Deals Magic Poet Materials Tendencies Unconscious Formulas Ability To See Gimmicks

Author:Erica Jong

“What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.”

Thinking Writing Long Interest Ability Our Lives

Author:Nicole Krauss

“The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.”

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.”

People Thinking World Mean Real Ability Situation Development Skills Real World Dealing With People

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.”

Thinking Ability Type Highest Connections Ability To See

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.”

Thinking Ends Self Ability Decision Quality Containment Till The End

Author:Sean Connery

“It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.”

Thinking Energy Ability Discipline Right Direction

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.”

Thinking Turns Ability Environment Organization Meetings Managers Assets

Author:Nancy Kline

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Stories Might Certain Ability Watches Millions Hard Work Limits Harder Storytelling Budgets Giants Work Harder

Author:Vince Gilligan

“I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.”

People Thinking Men Use Seems Young Individual Force Black Ability Lord Car Amount Lifetime Video Disturbed

Author:Rand Paul

“As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.”

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Author:Charles Landry

“I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.”

Thinking Kind Literature Ability Fiction Bounds Contemporary Posts Blogs Sitcom Intellectualism Contemporary Fiction

Author:Ben Lerner

“As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.”

People Thinking Believe Mean Real Ability Imagine Real Life Video Awful

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.”

Thinking Feels Hard Helping Feelings Ability Race Car Arms Shapes Tough Prepared Track Work Out Driving Heat Necks Help Me Feel Better Athletic Adjustment Reflexes Athletic Ability

Author:Kasey Kahne

“I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!”

Thinking Want Stills Shows Light Ability Love Is Green Marketing Producers Green Lights

Author:David Nevins

“Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.”

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Author:Richard Hamming

“Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.”

Source: Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln

“No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.”

Thinking Persons Realizing Ability Breathe Marvelous Just Do It

Author:Susan Meissner

“Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Ability Eternal Bird Conviction Willingness Museums Fragile Elusive Vigilance Fly Away Eternal Vigilance

Author:Alex Kotlowitz

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.”

Thinking Stories Ability Subjects Documentaries

Author:Leslie Cockburn

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.”

“Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.”

Thinking Facts Ability Memorizing

Author:Frank K. Sonnenberg

“Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.”

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Author:Cara Santa Maria

“I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.”

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Author:Peter Beinart

“When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.”

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Author:Michael Flutie

“To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.”

Thinking Ability Special Honest

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

“I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.”

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Author:David Korten

“I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.”

“You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.”

Thinking Natural Chance Ability Balls Surprise Bats Natural Ability

Author:Mike Trout

“I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Ability Skills Patterns Heavy Recognition Perceive Related Involvement Aptitude

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

Thinking Writing Ability Sarcastic

Author:A. E. Housman

“I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.”

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Author:Gary Bartz

“You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.”

People Thinking Knows Important Ability Rough Have Confidence

Author:Tom Waits

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