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“In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.”

Thinking Way Mind States Problem Certain Unhappy Daily Life State Of Mind Way Of Thinking

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.”

People Thinking Certain Normal Dignity Strive Quitting Collapse

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.”

Ifs Thinking Certain Actors Gone Mad Height Extras Temperament Voltage

Author:Laurence Olivier

“In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.”

Thinking Mind Self Whole Certain Speak Prayer Conversation Lips Praying To God

Author:Thomas Merton

“No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.”

Thinking Knows Want Philosophy Seems Certain Process Approach Concepts Thinker Dogma Accord Thought Process Thinking Process

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

“If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Certain Responsibility Alive Type Amount Projects Sticks Decent Teamwork Flexibility Rest Of Your Life Notoriety

Author:Clint Eastwood

“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

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

People Thinking Want May Mean Jobs Certain Sound Born Simple Class Conditions Perspective Betrayal Betray

Author:Thomas Frank

“As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.”

Thinking Mind Believe Persons Matter Certain Humanity Opinion Principles Particular Caught Being True Caught Up Precarious Relationships With Others

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.”

Thinking Feels Years Certain Theater Actresses Backgrounds Ties Kinship

Author:Joan Allen

“Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'”

Thinking Way Giving Certain Challenges Struggle Feet Giving Up Down And Perseverance My Way Knees Beaten Never Giving Up

Author:Randy Pausch

“Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.”

Thinking Mean Certain Laughing Losing Being Yourself Sense Of Humor Childishness

Author:Walt Disney

“I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Knowing Example Draws Fellows Animation Caricatures Hardy Laurels Laurel And Hardy

Author:Walt Disney

“When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.”

Thinking Way Ideas Together Certain Easy Share Working Together Sensibility Coordinates

Author:Barbara Crampton

“When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music." Then there were all these things that I learned to get myself over certain humps, but I think it just comes down to: do I have something to say or not? If I'm feeling something I should try to get that out, and maybe it's not words, but trying to turn it into something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Should Trying Feelings Certain Turns

Author:Mikky Ekko

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.”

Thinking Kids Age Certain Parent Teacher Player Regret Musician Decided Baseball I Regret Baseball Player Music Teacher

Author:Charlie Day

“Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Running Certain Parent Common Situation Extremes Goodbye Common Denominator

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.”

Thinking Art Film Certain Quality Share Visuals Similarity Hyper Lowbrow

Author:John Waters

“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Writing I Can Certain Social Bits Levels Deals Amount Cat Nuts Not Alone Because I Can Like Being Alone Cat Lady

Author:Courtney Love

“I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.”

Thinking Years Kids Certain Left Too Much Threat Episodes Naive

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.”

Thinking Should Certain Teach Genre Movie

Author:Jordana Brewster

“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.”

Thinking Writing Doe Hard Certain Discipline Intellectual Structure Sentences Mapping

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.”

People Thinking I Can Helping Feelings Might Certain Audience Jokes Disbelief

Author:Michael Showalter

“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Doe Pain Desire Certain Waiting Know How Successful Failing Contrary Desperate Impatient Obtaining

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.”

People Thinking Want Sometimes Reason Certain Stars Destiny

Author:Morgan Parker

“Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.”

Thinking Needs Years Mean Long Government Certain Careers Citizens Politician Office Now And Then Skepticism Associates Sixteen Public Office

Author:Ronald Reagan

“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles I Can Certain Bits Talking Little Bit Tone Timing

Author:David First

“I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.”

People Thinking Knows Way Looks Two Age Young Certain Dresses Eras Code Punk Hippie Dogmatic

Author:David First

“I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.”

Ifs Thinking Political Certain Hate I Hate Unemployed Consultants

Author:Rob Zerban

“I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.”

Thinking Way Character Problem Certain My Own Situation Serious Outsiders Going To Work Craziness

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Happens Certain Term Loses Concern Long Term

Author:Eric Horvitz

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

People Thinking Persons Real Hard Use Certain Turns Stuff Events Clothes Making Money Real Friends

Author:Sophie Monk

“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.”

Thinking Should Facts Political Certain Courses Party Degrees Careful Certainty Useless Tonight Skepticism Political Parties Barren

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.”

Ifs Thinking Men May Mean Art Certain Courses Found Bits Powerful Events Blessing Difficulty Average Mood Firm Streams Carrie Serenity Unfortunate Harbors Gloomy Mood Changes

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mean Use Feelings Certain Attitude Seeing Influence Subjects Style Produce Reader Determination Atmosphere

Author:Randall Jarrell

“There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.”

Thinking Happens Certain Car Amount Bravery Brave Drivers Sensible Be Brave

Author:Paul Newman

“I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.”

Thinking Certain Circumstances Defined Abortion Against Abortion

Author:John Bolton

“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.”

“Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign, and you and I will stand there. I durst not touch that subject. Take it into your own hearts, and think about it, a kingdom, a judgment-seat, a crown, a gathered universe; separation, decision, execution of the sentence.”

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.”

People Thinking Way Reason Certain Knowing Judging

Author:Blake Lively

“I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.”

Thinking Play Character Certain Values Actors Huge Degrees Presses Staying Target Radar

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.”

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Certain Growing Up Comedy Growing Cynicism Indiana Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.”

Thinking Way Writing Certain Decision Active Comedian Persona

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.”

Thinking Want Reason Age Certain Careers Mom Clothes Labels Soccer Our Society Categories Gals Career Women Soccer Mom

Author:Elizabeth Heyert

“I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.”

People Thinking Certain Benefits Asking Asking Why

Author:Elizabeth Holmes

“Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.”

Ifs Thinking Certain Fall Girl Sides Black Streets Asking Ice Covered Slips Alright Lanes Certain Death Black Ice

Author:David Bowick

“I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.”

People Thinking Way Used Certain Knowing Psychology Ties

Author:Molly Quinn