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“I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.”

People Thinking Love Giving Has Beens Hard Challenges Century Capacity Disturbing Console Retarded Climax Consoling

Book:The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

Source: The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

“In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.”

Thinking Mind Hate Strong Fear Doors Capacity Intense Tendencies Cowardice Nests

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Use Remember Teaching Materials Easier Capacity Lists Teaching Learning

Book:Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

Source: Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

“I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.”

Thinking Trying Brain Internet Capacity Scripture Contradiction Ants

Author:Rick Warren

“I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.”

Thinking Way Mean Term Ability Civilization Capacity My Way Bridges Way Of Thinking Advanced Civilization

Author:George Carlin

“I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

People Thinking World Needs Humans Has Beens Use Past Spirituality Lost Planets Capacity Contrary Nuclear Eras Desperate Goddess Bonding Save The Planet

Author:Isabel Allende

“The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.”

Thinking Way Wells Jobs Values Religious Prayer Influence Danger Praying Taste Capacity Consumers Materialism Consumerism Preference Our Prayers Overconsumption Tutelage

Author:Robert Wuthnow

“The essential message of my life is that all of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives. Whether it's a healing, a relationship, a promotion, or whatever form of abundance you want to manifest in your life, you have much more power to be able to manifest it than you might think.”

Thinking Want Seems Might Able Form Life Is Healing Our Lives Missing Essentials Messages Capacity Abundance Manifest Promotion

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.”

Thinking Way Giving Book Real Self Brain Products Civilization Reflection Capacity Agency Civilized Self Reflection Civilized Society

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.”

Ifs Thinking Existence Capacity Claims Likes Powerless

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”

Thinking Should Humans Important Different Courses Differences Brain Capacity Size Enormous Mice Human Brain Important Questions Vertebrates

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.”

Thinking Believe Said Moving I Believe Social Prayer Answers Responsibility Poet Capacity Tasks Mirrors Injustice Social Injustice

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.”

Thinking Knows Capacity Terror Realization Relate

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”

Thinking Life Art Soul Moments Feelings Wisdom Secret Capacity Unity Preparation Breathing Siddhartha Moments Of Life

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.”

“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.”

Ifs Thinking Use Asks Can Do Wonder Creativity Computer Capacity Remarkable Capability Fractions Personal Computers

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.”

Thinking Believe Given Ability Bears Capacity Tradition Endure

Author:Robin Roberts

“It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.”

Thinking Giving Able Stuff Can Do Hurt Imagine Capacity It Hurts You Can Do It Hurt Me Headache

Author:Stephen King

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.”

Thinking Emotional Capacity Landscape Opera

Author:Julie Taymor

“I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.”

People Thinking Firsts Wells Long Enough Literature Grief Capacity Meaningful Solace Amenable

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.”

Thinking Jobs Stuff Difficult Fields Industry Tough Capacity Exciting Officers Versus Spy Cia Glamorous

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.”

Thinking Knows Country Body Age Passion Cities Capacity Rounds Be Good Our Country Mess Developing Flaws Village Frailty

Author:Eve Ensler

“Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.”

Thinking Believe Sides Goal Term Deals Acting Careers Capacity Relation Financial Toms Cruise Financial Goals

Author:Val Kilmer

“For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.”

Thinking Self Can Do Greater Keys Higher Capacity Higher Self

Author:T. Harv Eker

“I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?”

Thinking Needs Able Wonder Imagine Planets Capacity Greatest Gifts

Author:Homer Hickam

“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

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.”

“A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.”

“As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.”

Thinking Way Believe Different I Believe Results Leader Achieve Capacity Organization Mindset Lifts Settling Different Ways Changing Your Mind

Author:Craig Groeschel

“What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.”

Thinking Awareness Calling Conscious Capacity Absolutes Arise Buddhist Manifest Domain Womb Conscious Awareness

Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

“And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary”

Thinking Violence Dangerous Capacity Adversaries Unafraid Afraid Of Death

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.”

“Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.”

Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)

“In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.”

Thinking World War Policy Capacity Constant War Of The Worlds Second World War

Book:Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

Source: Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

“If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.”

People Ifs Thinking World Happens Jobs Young Energy Economy This World Capacity Innovation Train Clean Come Up Fuel Dependent Fossils Fossil Fuel New Job Clean Energy

Author:Kofi Annan

“When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.”

Thinking World Problem Guy Water Imagine Happened Changed Right Now Computer Capacity Educated Buying Smarter Changed My Life Millennium

Author:Lance Henriksen

“My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I was thinking yesterday, what I'd like to do is maybe start to compile a list of the best 200 to 500 capacity rooms around the world and just start going to them again and again and again.”

Thinking World Want Kind Certain Courses Rooms Capacity Lists Yesterday Tendencies Agents Around The World Again And Again

Author:Will Oldham

“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.”

“People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.”

People Thinking Kind Art Difficult Levels Materials Capacity Performances Manage Performers Thinker Execution Motor High Level Great Thinkers Chipping Away

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.”

Thinking Mind Light Activity Capacity Sake Height Clearness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.”

People Thinking Want Self Matter Passion Discipline Daughter Capacity My Daughter Self Discipline Diminish Nothing Matters Slough Wild Passion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers.”

Thinking Looks Would Be Values Possibility Capacity England Infrastructure Taxpayers Passengers

Author:Andrea Leadsom

“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.”

People Thinking Way Stills Reality Fun Understanding Ability Fantasy Knowing Inspire Perspective Adults Capacity Pessimism Defiance Realist

Author:Alex Ebert

“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.”

People Thinking Way Needs States Culture Strong Loses Consciousness Forever Drug Ordinary Capacity Negative Horrible Destructive Our Society Addict Innate States Of Consciousness

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching.”

Thinking May Has Beens Different Age School Groups Teaching Benefits Advantage Capacity Small Groups Elementary School Different Ages

Author:Paul Smith

“I just think of Fannie Lou Hamer, because even though she didn't know my name Ms. Hamer was thinking of me. I just want to do a good job, because I want her to look over that edge of heaven and say, "That's why I did it. That's why. I knew we had the capacity and the talent to be everything America says we can't be. All we needed was an open door."”

Thinking Knows Want Looks Jobs America Names Heaven Doors Talent Needed Capacity Edges Good Job

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.”

People Thinking World Able Young Capacity Changing The World Shakes

Author:Nate Powell

“Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.”

Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

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