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“I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.”

“I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Seems Certain Stuff Realizing Results Changed Listening Activity Elements Ears Settling Composition Seeming Filters Being Free

Author:Peter Gabriel

“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Jobs Passion Hours Pay Activity Picks Economics Trade Assuming Boring Planning Leisure Time Off Trade Offs Passion For Work

Author:Emily Oster

“I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.”

Thinking Sports Successful Groups Activity Being Successful

Author:John Wooden

“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.”

Thinking Knows Facts Spirit Father Causes Knowing Creation Divine Hair Activity Eternal Intellectual Response Daydreaming

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.”

“The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.”

People Thinking Men Has Beens Made Facts Girl Women Boys Risk Identity He Man Development Activity Majors Threat Oneself Characteristics Serving Masculine Incorporating

Book:Toward a New Psychology of Women

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".”

Thinking Writing Mean Hard Spirit Values Simple Common Activity Limits Definitions Exploration Display Exploring Cleverness Hacks Hacking Playfulness

Author:Richard Stallman

“It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual”

Thinking Mistake Creative Activity Unusual

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.”

Thinking Important Sound Movement Activity Rational Appeals Phrases

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.”

Thinking Men Lasts Realizing Perfect Love Is Common Products Activity Degrees Essence Motive Resolve Finite Common Ground Dealings Perfect Love

Author:Frank C. Lockwood

“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Thinking Needs Use Meditation Activity Intelligent Insight Discrimination Buddhist Pointless Cultivation Unintelligent Buddhist Meditation

Author:B. Alan Wallace

“I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.”

Thinking Giving Writing Firsts Stories Remember Activity Authority Give Me Dollars Selling Fifty Short Story

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Real Country Whole Body Brain Attitude Car Stupid Periods Activity Dear Scared Drivers Dear Friend Pavement Many Friends Change Your Attitude

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.”

Thinking Humans Literature Wonderful Serious Activity Human Activity

Author:David Shields

“I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Ends Artist Literature Activity

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.”

Thinking Heart Art Book Whole Hours Growing Up Growing Generations Huge Activity Sake Theatre After Hours Huge Changes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.”

Thinking Self Running Lost Behinds Awareness Activity Possession Cease Serving Autonomous Self Serving

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.”

Thinking Feelings Kids School Used Left Activity Smart Smart Kid

Author:George Carlin

“Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.”

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Author:Dave Hickey

“I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.”

Thinking Needs Ideas Artist Activity Artistic Lone

Author:Anne Waldman

“I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity, its a way of life. There is a culture that surrounds it and I think people are intrigued by that.”

People Thinking Way Culture Sports Activity Surround Fascination Surf Intrigued

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.”

Thinking Giving Opportunity Company Careers Building Type Activity Creating Exciting Entrepreneur Creating Something Helm

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Reality Might Happens Forget Advice Activity Strive Patient Cease Flexible Be Patient Forget It Hustle Disheartening

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Might Values Church Activity Conscience Catholic Being True Conform

Author:Francis George

“Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Seems Natural Example Activity Creatures South Males Testing Pacific Slap Shaving Mating Beetles Aqua

Book:The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

“If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.”

Ifs Thinking Years Believe Long Ideas Done Universe Activity Years Ago Train Seven Billions Fantastic Believe In God Satisfying Thrilling If You Believe Seven Days

Author:Bill Bryson

“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

“I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

Thinking Shows Form Artist Values Cities Building Activity Our Society Coherence

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

“There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.”

Thinking Goes On Activity Unconscious Composition

Author:Billy Collins

“Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?”

Thinking Humans Secret Race Activity Ultimate Method Nuclear Human Race Physicist Ingenuity

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Energy Pay Creative Impossible Happened Source Activity Ugly Destroyed Phenomenon Be Creative Blocked Impossible Things

Author:Rajneesh

“I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.”

Thinking Would Be Political Amount Activity Evidence Consequence Fairs Uncertainty Suspects Engaging Militancy

Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

“People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Ideas Whole Might Song Asks Sides Interesting Scene Activity Ask Me Abstract Tangible Analyzing

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense. You want to live with somebody, then live with somebody. All that other stuff is just a way for the state monitoring and codifying certain activities and ostracizing others.”

Thinking Way Want Giving States Care Certain Stuff Break Activity Taxes Nonsense Our Relationship Who Cares Monitoring Tax Breaks

Author:Dale Peck

“Communicate, communicate, communicate: If anything, make sure to communicate what you're doing, what you're up to, what's going on and what issues your facing as often as you can - even if [you think] no one's listening. This serves both as a log of your activities and a personal record that you can refer to later but also opens the possibility that someone might just come along and be able to help you in some unexpected but totally necessary way!”

Ifs Thinking Way Helping Might Able Issues Records Possibility Listening Activity Communicate Unexpected

Author:Tara Hunt

“I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.”

“There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Light Certain Impossible Blood Activity Opposites Assuming Betrayal Remarkable Desirable Juice Unbearable Deadline Unimportant Impossible Becomes Possible

Author:Walter Wykes

“If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Said Speak Teaching Activity Essentials Tradition Philosophical Accidents Biographies Linked First Person Heidegger

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Today Past Space Gone Virtue Modern Activity Gains Notion Arrogance Decay Time And Space Passivity Banality Profundity Classifying

Author:Russell Jacoby

“I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.”

Thinking Humans Stupid Activity Artistic Human Activity

Author:Christian Boltanski

“To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?”

Thinking World Writing Mean Stills Might Given Design Activity Speech Ordinary Conscious Edges Admiration Interfere Interference Physical Activity

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.”

Thinking Knows Way Matter Consciousness Know How Subjects Awareness Activity Perception Visuals Invites Pointing Subject Matter Hyper Visual Perception

Author:Uta Barth

“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.”

“What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.”

Thinking Facts Light Given Activity Being True Assumption

Author:Dallas Willard

“In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.”

Thinking Giving Trying Littles Long Stills Important Moments Eye Age Order Social Existence Middle Activity Old Age Retirement Allowing Organize

Book:Learn to Grow Old

Source: Learn to Grow Old

“In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent or to reduce transaction costs so that individuals can negotiate freely and we can take advantage of that diffused knowledge of which Friedrich Hayek has told us.”

Thinking Facts Individual Economic Cost Activity Advantage Accomplish Transactions Hayek Friedrich Hayek

Author:Ronald Coase

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