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“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

Thinking Writing Persons Art Ends Bigs Artist Pay Novel Middle Consequence Resources Harder Middle Aged

Author:Dana Spiotta

“There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Thinking Men May Hands Decision Taken Magic Hundred Consequence Graves Reaching One Man Magic Powers

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Play Games Crazy Happenings Consequence Our Children Climate Atmosphere Global Warming Predictable Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:William J. Clinton

“I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.”

Thinking Company Failure Consequence Legacy Predictable

Author:Carly Fiorina

“At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.”

Ifs Thinking Use Force Military Consequence Confusion Regimes Misunderstanding Military Force

Author:Colin Powell

“When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”

Thinking Men Should Humans Law Justice Principles Conscience Consequence Eternity This Life Contradiction

Author:William Wilberforce

“Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.”

Thinking Men Feels Wells I Can Matter Reality Courses Honest Honesty Depends Consequence Concerned Mark Notion Obstacles Well Being Relative Lunatic Honest Man Rationale Relative Truth

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“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

“Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.”

Thinking Action Decision Consequence Heavy

Author:Gucci Mane

“If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Mind Firsts Enough Feet Consequence Busy Convinced Endless Ice Chains Contemplating Agony Skates Gloss

Author:Philip Larkin

“Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.”

Thinking Done Consequence Paid Worthwhile

Author:Laurence Overmire

“If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.”

Ifs Thinking Character Sin Cry Consequence Insult Hypocrisy Avert Consequences Of Sin

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.”

Thinking World Children Today Choices Opportunity Responsibility Blessing Consequence Blessed Burden Critical Endless Agency Endless Opportunities

Author:Sharon G. Larsen

“I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.”

Ifs Thinking Important Play Action Remember Choices Lines Rooms Trouble Lessons Losing Sitting Consequence I Realized This Day Save Me Important Lessons Losing Control

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.”

Source: The Robin Sharma Pack

“There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”

Thinking Mind Humans Doe Passion Human Beings Consequence Rising Dread

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Feelings Individual Dangerous Evolution Solutions Consequence Species Implications Darwinism

Author:Ben Stein

“It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.”

Thinking World Said Would Be Heaven Existence Six Consequence Simplicity

Author:Philo

“I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.”

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source: Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

“While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.”

Thinking Order Culture Economic Balance Civilization Consequence Western Indian Islamic Units Western Civilization Orientalism National Culture

Author:Hamid Dabashi

“Learning is a consequence of thinking.”

Thinking Consequence

Book:Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.”

“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”

Thinking Humans Asks Language Ability Consequence Sophisticated Spoken Language

Author:Jane Goodall

“There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.”

Thinking Wells Important Happens Action Next Consequence Asking Inaction

Author:Chuck Hagel

“I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

Thinking Needs Faces Nations Challenges Leader Willing Consequence Enormous Right Thing Telling The Truth

Author:Ted Cruz

“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.”

“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”

“You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?”

People Thinking Knows Looks Mean Persons Home Natural Consequence Standing Leaving Shoes Forgotten Like Me Smoking Irritating Sidewalk Irritated Natural Consequences Irritants

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.”

“Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.”

Thinking Knows Want Done Problem Inspiration Goal Can Do Know How Consequence Accomplished Setting Goals

Author:Bob Proctor

“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.”

Thinking Reality White Class Violence Doors Middle Grew Grew Up Consequence Violent Atmosphere Middle Class Survived Shattered Early Life Consequences Of Violence

Author:Eve Ensler

“We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot”

Thinking Want Giving Doe War Body Brain Our Lives Consequence Impulse Giving Directions

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.”

Thinking Humans May Suffering Race Wall Consequence Crisis Climate Climate Change Financial Decades Human Race Realising Hitting Severe Financial Crisis

Author:Michael Meacher

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?”

Thinking Action Realizing Consequence Gains Ultimate Punishment Too Late Irrevocable

Book:Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

“I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.”

Thinking Knows Feels Ideas Sometimes Hard Stories Taken Fire Information Consequence Reputation Comedian Confusing Schizophrenic

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.”

Thinking Play Bigs Happens Force Subjects Huge Terrible Consequence Folly Customs Momentum Accounting

Author:Charlie Munger

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”

Thinking Action Accepting Birth Consequence Misery Prepared Swings Nonconformist Prudes Scorpios

Author:Vivien Leigh

“The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.”

“Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.”

Thinking Next Too Much Stage Scene Consequence

Author:Jane Goodall

“I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.”

Thinking Government Decision Responsibility Huge Consequence

Author:Gerry Adams

“When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.”

Thinking Felt Natural Forever Huge Late Consequence Resources Users Natural Resources

Author:Bill Ford

“"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."”

Thinking Wells Littles Said Done Character Interesting Boys Consequence Interesting Characters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.”

People Thinking Ideas Sometimes Sides Violence Citizens Weapons Solutions Gun Consequence Ultimate Access Arguing Practicals Both Sides Wisest Complication

Author:Keanu Reeves

“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”

Thinking Men May Stills Matter Feelings Religion Community Church Moral Enemy Support Higher Office Eternal Consequence Leaving Insult Makers Church And State Scoffers

Book:Lincoln on Lincoln

Source: Lincoln on Lincoln

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”

Thinking Should Reason Reality Desire Evil Causes Sacrifice Bears Limits Consequence Should Have Refusal Evil Thoughts

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.”

Thinking May Action Voice Particular Duty Consequence Silent

Author:Augustus Hare

“It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.”

Thinking Matter Consequence What Matters Live Your Life Think Of You

Author:Gore Vidal