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“We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.”

Thinking Together Purpose Education Teacher Week Building Taught Months Patterns Educated Outcomes Affected Classroom Campus Educating Others

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.”

Thinking Book Building Empowerment India Village Lacking

Author:Narendra Modi

“A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Two Real Sometimes Feelings Together Used Left Building Prove Meant To Be Ashes Family Friends Meant To Be Together

Author:Sarah

“Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.”

People Thinking I Can Language Sports Building Universal Bridges Universal Language

Author:Sebastian Coe

“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"”

Thinking Knows Trying Moments Home Certain Three Next Stuff Four Week Building Studios Shooting Next Day Coming Back Rehearsal

Author:Anthony Heald

“This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”

People Thinking Courses Moral Novel Building Concern Block Manners Intimate Ritual Realising Old Fashioned Abolish Investigating Building Blocks Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.”

Thinking Way Kind Ideas Lasts Film Break Comedy Building Jokes Suspense Tension Thrillers

Author:Corey Feldman

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”

Thinking Should Trying Jobs Turns Nations Enemy Military Building Citizens Murder Down And Democratic Iraq Engaged Hunts Isis Utopia American Citizens Jihad Switzerland Nation Building

Author:Ted Cruz

“A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.”

Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.”

Thinking World Kind Done America Cities Building Hatred Accomplished Disheartening

Author:Frank Miller

“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”

Thinking Needs Feels Different Culture Cities Building Essence India Architect Singapore Kansas Arkansas Kansas City

Author:Moshe Safdie

“I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.”

People Thinking Littles Helping Building Window Mirrors Raises Everyday Hotel Architect Angle Cheerful Bathroom Shaving Everyday Living

Author:David Chipperfield

“Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.”

People Thinking Running Building

Book:Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

“The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.”

People Thinking Trying Helping Design Building Empathy

Author:David M. Kelley

“To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!”

Thinking World Today Christian Jesus Fire Plans Dying This World Building International Believer Ships Kicks Governing Reserved Clinging Sinking Capitol Dying Love

Author:David Wilkerson

“Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.”

Thinking Building Plant Block Poison Shells Organisms Co2 Building Blocks

Author:Janine Benyus

“There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.”

Thinking Stills School Jobs Walks New York Building Summer High School Interviews Rejected

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

Thinking Life Littles Done Able Building Tasks Manage Thoughtful Privacy Ruling Props Hoarding

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.”

“I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.”

Thinking Building Ladders Ladder Of Success

Author:Madeleine Albright

“The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.”

People Thinking Way Care Next Bits Rich Five Building Hair Debate Health Care Abandoned Harlem Parlor Hmm Abandoned Buildings

Author:Chris Rock

“Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.”

“One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.”

Thinking Men Way Important Action Together Walks Results Effort Economy Psychology Plans Building Spring Negative Impact Fabric April

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”

“I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.”

Thinking Games Building Civilization Technique Impressive Espionage

Author:Rebecca West

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.”

Ifs Thinking Pain Building Reflection Wounds Introducing Apartment Discourse Reflecting Enquiry

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Long Government Strong Cases Worst Building Taxes Raises Obvious Canada Scenarios Unstable Worst Case Scenario

Author:Stephen Harper

“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”

Thinking Firsts May Doe Wish Greater Design Humility Building Mass Foundation Deeper Height Fabric Constructs

Author:Saint Augustine

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.”

Thinking Needs Should Home Building Comfortable Suits Wardrobe Building A Home

Author:Edith Head

“I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.”

Thinking Knows Littles Steps Building Mines Happenings Metaphor Brands Wow Really True Building A Business Building A Brand

Author:Karen Walker

“There are bodybuilders who are afraid of indulging in sex or even of playing other sports for fear of harming their bodies. I think that's silly. What's the use of building your body if you don't use it?”

Ifs Thinking Use Body Sex Sports Building Your Body Silly Bodybuilder

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.”

People Thinking Art Shows Body Wanted Form Chance Building Sculpture Showing Off Body Building

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Whole Strong President Building Addresses Continents Historic Summit Kenya Us President Ethiopia Strong Relationship

Author:Barack Obama

“Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it`s the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.”

“I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.”

“When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.”

People Thinking Should Might Process Building Garden Surprise Carrie Composer Analogies

Author:Brian Eno

“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”

Thinking Should Hard Use Wish Figures Building Products Judgement Target Users Recipes

Author:Emmett Shear

“We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.”

Thinking Way Believe Looks Stills Beautiful Energy Lost I Believe Process Answers Imagine Building Keys Plant Contrary Heat Efficient Improving Genetically Modified Photosynthesis

Author:Jean-Marie Lehn

“Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.”

“I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.”

Thinking Years Jobs Worst Building Dad Lucky Office My Dad Employment Janitor Office Buildings

Author:Chris Carmack

“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.”

Thinking Should Humans Self States Nature Human Beings Existence Support Building Architecture Interfere Ecology Ecological Ecosystems Sustaining Stasis

Author:Ken Yeang

“I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a green building everything is going to be fine, but actually it's not just the green buildings we need, but green businesses, green governments, green economics. We have to extend the greening of buildings to our business and our lifestyles - that is the most important thing to do next.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Important Government Next Building Fine Economics Green Important Things Lifestyle Things To Do Equations Greening

Author:Ken Yeang

“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."”

Thinking World Way Needs Mean Desire Pleasure Secret Building Conflict Pressure Overwhelming Relieved Secretive

Author:Philip Schultz

“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

“I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.”

Thinking House Water Nice Land Building Woods Being Nice

Author:Ethan Canin

“People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.”

“I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.”

Thinking Trying Wells Would Be Building Spending Spending Time

Author:Paul Goldberger