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“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Would Be Able Subjects Politician Members Prison Paint Saint Gang Controversial Serials Laughable Gang Members

Author:Robert Draper

“There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Able Opportunity Available Limitation Best Opportunity

Author:Natalie Portman

“Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.”

Thinking Feels Able Community Studios Pops Artistic Really Cool

Author:Mikky Ekko

“It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.”

People Thinking World Important Able Speak Language Grew Grew Up Absolutes Important Things Privilege

Author:Lucy Liu

“If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Able Forgiving Forgive Yourself Can't Forgive

Author:Bill Hader

“I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.”

“For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.”

Thinking World Feels Enough Able Share Great Things Feel Good Good Enough Pictures Of Yourself

Author:Ezra Koenig

“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”

Thinking Hands Eye Able Building Skills Achievement Models Construction Architect Transfers Coordination

Author:Frank Gehry

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.”

Source: The Art of Travel

“Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.”

Thinking Able

Author:Bob Goff

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Able Know How Fool Paper

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!”

Thinking Want Firsts Kids Able Remember Next Drawing Grades

Author:Dan Povenmire

“I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Bigs Government Able Strong Ambition Insight My Ambition Big Ideas

Author:Jasper Johns

“You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.”

People Thinking Knows Ends Feelings Able Pay Nice Goes On Involved Convincing Get Involved Really Nice Guessing Expeditions You Think You Know Nice Feeling

Author:David Ayer

“I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.”

Thinking Trying Able Accepting Manage Homelessness

Author:John Carlos Frey

“I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.”

Thinking Self Reason Able Jobs Actors Strong Directors Filmmaker Executives Very Strong Possessed Commodity Salesman Strong Self

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.”

Thinking Way I Can Ideas Different Enough Would Be Able Song Challenges Fashion Humorous Clever Different Ways Candidates Flats Parody Repetitive

Author:Al Yankovic

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

People Thinking Hard Body Would Be Able Moving Challenges Space Walks Silence Okay Be Good Stillness Interacting

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

People Thinking Writing Mind Kind Enough Would Be Able Wanted Song Wish Stars Goal Pay Rocks Willing Rock Star Of My Mind

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.”

Thinking States Character Able Mistake Audience Position Periods Smart Golden Cinema Classic Misconception

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want May Able Loses Simple Tests Seeds Destined Saving Money Infallible Failure In Life

Author:James J. Hill

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.”

Thinking Mean Two Home Able Next Impossible Opposites Two Things Nonsense Pulling Unlimited Next Day Looking Forward Confronting Cambridge Generalities

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The private years, 1884-1914

“Do you remember when you found out there was no Santa Claus? I was so upset I didn't think I'd be able to do the show.”

Thinking Shows Able Remember Found Upset Remember When Santa Santa Claus

Author:David Letterman

“I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society ... all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Believe Mean Able I Believe Study Praying Structure Strive Communism Knees Communist Transition Socialist

Author:Jane Fonda

“Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?”

Ifs Thinking Able

Book:One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

“I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.”

Thinking Littles Play Dream Able Wanted Chance Boys Golf Best Things Little Boys

Author:Tiger Woods

“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.”

People Thinking May Mean Facts Able Social Theory Evolution Aspect Scientist Philosopher Curious Biology Theory Of Evolution

Author:Jacques Monod

“As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying I Can Able Actors Mistake Pressure Over The Top No Pressure

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.”

Thinking World Looks Ideas Use Able Action Film Adventure Limitless Playgrounds Cinematic

Author:Christopher Nolan

“I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.”

Thinking Said Different Able Jobs Genius Great Men Ads Processing Think Different

Author:Walter Isaacson

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

Thinking Should May Able Mother Universe Black Born Space Answers Principles Theory Fundamentals Holes Strings Fabric Time And Space Black Hole Warp String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being An Artist

Author:David Luiz

“I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.”

Thinking Real Ends Done Able Emotion Plans Tests Enthusiasm Enthusiastic

Author:Richard Estes

“If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Able Christianity Share Scripts Believer Accepted Reputation Developing Serving Emphasis Non Believer Developing Relationships

Author:Andy Stanley

“Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.”

Thinking Knows Important Able Television College Daughter My Daughter

Author:Jack Germond

“Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”

Thinking Able Suffering Realising Affliction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.”

Thinking World Way Feels Heart Able Language Community Attitude Accepting Speech Characteristics Comment Finest Notebook Idiom Heart To Heart Accepting Life

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.”

“In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.”

“Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried”

Thinking World Love Matter Able Love Is No Matter What Rounds Denied Only Love

Author:Bob Dylan

“Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Able Names Heaven Waiting White Figures Terrible Ordinary All Things Longing Endless Gates Doomed Ordinary Man

Book:Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories

Source: Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories

“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

“In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.”

Thinking World Wells Able Water Focused Japan Mutual Assets Territory Inward Interdependence Resolute Territorial

Author:Shinzo Abe

“My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.”

Thinking World Able Lost Fans Percent My Favorite Hearing Around The World Loud Favorites Things

Author:Justin Bieber

“The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”

Thinking Should Book Able Lying Order Language Sides Expression Limits Should Have Aim Nonsense Both Sides Thinkable

Book:Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Source: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

“The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.”

Thinking Knows Mind Humans May Ideas Able Life Is Term Absolutes Infinite This Life Human Mind Sublime Knowing God Fathom

Author:George C. Lorimer

“I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.”

Thinking Important Kids Able Games Sides Basics Skates

Author:Bobby Hull

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