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“But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Believe Littles States United United States Capable Agree Around The World Regimes If You Believe

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.”

“I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Enough Space Week Capable Exciting Profound Columns Profound Thoughts

Author:David Plotz

“In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.”

Thinking Littles Shows Bits Crazy Tvs Little Bit Capable Pressure Witch Tv Shows Being Crazy Cookers

Author:Sam Simon

“Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.”

Thinking Men Should Mind Whole Might Certain Order Capable All Things Intellect Wit Esteem Founders Measuring Presumption Surpassing Commemoration

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.”

Thinking Needs Humans Sometimes Realizing Human Beings Perfect Mistake Capable Reaching Making Mistakes Perfectionism

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”

People Thinking Greatness Judging Ought Fit Truth Is Capable Motive Sublime

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.”

People Thinking Believe Children Has Beens Stories Certain Evil Capable Commit Cruelty Good And Evil Unthinkable

Author:Michael Cunningham

“I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.”

Thinking Way Stupid College Grew Amount Grew Up Capable Horrible My Way Grades Waitress I Was Stupid

Author:Suze Orman

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Capable Positive Person

Author:Cotton Fitzsimmons

“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.”

“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.”

Thinking Writing Together Walks Millions Honest Capable Down And Deeper Eight Block Being Honest Editors Better Than You Babe Dig Deep

Author:Victoria Laurie

“I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.”

Thinking Way Enough Care Running Form Next Higher Capable Get Away Screws Hunts Deer

Author:Ted Nugent

“I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.”

Thinking Sports Havens Capable Deep Thinking

Author:Phil Simms

“We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.”

Thinking Knows Believe Capable Stronger Endure Resourceful

Author:David Blaine

“It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.”

Ifs Thinking Important Enough Stuff Bits Difficult Capable Organized Hippie Annoyed Showing Up

Author:Grace Slick

“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Persons Ideas Helping Government Might Jobs Certain Hours Five Four Week Office Capable Areas Good Ideas Distribution Monstrous Receipts Government Jobs

Author:Grace Slick

“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.”

Thinking World Feels Writing Trying Light Past Dark Style Capable Concern Details Sentences Granted Paragraph

Author:Michael Chabon

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”

“I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.”

Thinking Kind Capable Complicated All Kinds

Author:Ryan Gosling

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”

Thinking Process Understanding Results Principles Produce Creatures Capable Accidents Expected Complexity Glorious Construction Unpredictable

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.”

Thinking Fields Capable Nfl

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.”

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Author:Pete Carroll

“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.”

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.”

People Thinking Knows Capable Boxes Thrive

Author:T.I.

“As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.”

Thinking Knows Men Body Pleasure Human Nature Capable Titles

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.”

Thinking Mind Kind Different Soul Seems Existence Eternal Capable Evidence Isolation Different Kinds Psychics

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.”

Thinking Men Enough Capable Falsehood Educator Pompous Refutation

Author:John Shirley

“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”

Thinking Writing Long Said Periods Capable Long Periods Of Time

Author:Edan Lepucki

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.”

Thinking World Trying Humans Mean Made Understanding Human Beings Pay Attention Capable Pay Attention Cynical Superficial Wickedness

Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.”

People Thinking Keys Involved Capable Standards Setting Settings Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.”

Thinking Body Challenges Sleep Capable Your Body Lack Of Sleep

Author:Bill Gates

“If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Different Soul Character Form Process Objects Capable Related Thoughtful Sensible Receiving Identical Thinkable

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”

“If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.”

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”

Thinking Knows Men World Giving May Lasts Culture Black Race Virtue Conditions Circumstances Civilization Capable Surprise Oppressed Last Words

Author:Marcus Garvey

“How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?”

Thinking Courses Existence Ready Capable Take Time Time To Think

Author:Christiane Collange

“I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.”

People Thinking Writing Fighting Situation Behavior Capable Very Good Partners Observers

Author:Julie Delpy

“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.”

“We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.”

Thinking Has Beens Purpose Opportunity Realizing Destiny Waste Capable Could Have Been

Author:Colleen Houck