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“Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.”

Thinking Want Long Art Simple Demand Works Of Art Expecting

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.”

Source: Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated

“He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.”

Thinking Want Giving Television Pride Demand Creating Lows Standards

Author:John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

“I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.”

Thinking World Lying Responsibility Fashion Demand Variety Collectives Fashion World

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.”

Thinking Should Kind Government Political Leadership Demand Voters Transparency Political Leadership

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.”

“I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.”

Thinking Political Social Process Doubt Media Demand News Constant Social Media No Doubt Advent News Channels

Author:Tony Abbott

“There are tons of gay issues that are important, from gay marriage to adoption rights to work-place discrimination and more... but I think the biggest gay issue is the level of involvement of the gay community to demand change. So many gays think that other gays will take care of it. To fix this, people need to realize that they CAN make a change, but no one person can do it alone.”

“Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.”

Thinking America Class Economy Middle Politician Demand Middle Class Complacent

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Should Stills School Understanding Depends Demand Happenings Should Have Mindset Math What You Want Legislation Segregation

Author:Deborah Meier

“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.”

Thinking Knows Years Humans Ideas Reason Brain Demand Function Suspects Principal Doing You Leading Me Rationalize Lizards Human Reason

Author:Dave Hickey

“I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Long Made Use Certain Opportunity Community Responsibility Doors Awareness Skills Demand Long Time Advantage Decided Made It Acquire Cracks Long Time Ago

Author:Angela Davis

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.”

Thinking Doe Problem Demand Fundamentals Oil Pricing

Author:Ahmed Zaki Yamani

“As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.”

People Thinking Littles Special Demand Expectations Prepared Patient Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Steven Pacey

“I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.”

Thinking World Way Feels Humans Children Earth Community Human Beings Views Rights Land Demand Concern Standing Separation Compassionate Womens Rights Extensions

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”

Thinking Humans Reason Problem Suffering Too Much Demand Solutions Evidence Rational Guardian Rational Thinking Human Suffering

Author:Sam Harris

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

Thinking Knows World Humans Looks Light Comedy Awareness Periods Demand Human Life Tension Adages Lighters Lightness Languish

Author:James Thurber

“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”

People Thinking Way Wells Two Ability Trouble Safe Demand Labor Tragedy Luck Brilliant Absence Guts Pessimism Smarter Recognizing Live Well Happy People

Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

“Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.”

Thinking Writing War Government Demand

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Children Might America Young Found Heard Taught Poet Demand Letters Better Ways Illiterate Inconsiderate

Author:Conrad Aiken

“Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.”

Thinking School Levels Quality Teacher Students Inspire Higher Demand Performances Excellence Mere Conformity Nurture Great Teacher Higher Level Quality Work

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.”

“I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Reason Character Stories Happens Today Turns Voice Tvs Demand Surprise Things Happen Storytelling Mediums Memorable Sensibility Vivid Reversal

Author:Nick Antosca

“It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.”

People Ifs Thinking Done Jobs Inspire Demand Democrat Inspired Servant Get Better Having Hope Public Servants Things Will Get Better

Author:Roseanne Barr

“We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.”

Thinking Way Mind Talking Demand Sitting Embrace Details Smallest Sitting Around

Author:Jean Houston

“The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'”

“I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that Stars records have themes, I think what they mean is we write songs - or try to write songs - that are timeless. We try to write songs that catch you at the right time in your life, and that you can hold on to. We write kitchen sink songs. If you're doing the dishes or you're driving to your mom's funeral, or if you're getting over having done MDMA and you feel sad, you can listen to Stars because we're not going to demand of you that you be cool.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Trying Mean Different Done Song Stars Records Mom Demand Driving Kitchen Theme Funeral Dishes Timeless Right Time Your Mom Being Cool Kitchen Sinks

Author:Torquil Campbell

“If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.”

Ifs Thinking Film Horror Demand Sequels Horror Film

Author:Fede Alvarez

“I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].”

Thinking Want Children Parent Decision Information Demand My Children Comprehension

Author:Will Smith

“Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.”

People Thinking Matter Facts Spiritual Taught Materials Demand Ordinary All Things Assuming Block Spiritual Life Vehicle Honored Implications Withdrawal Impervious

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.”

“A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.”

“There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.”

Thinking Way May Song Prayer Levels Behinds Seeing Divine Scene Demand Worship Meetings Affair Breathing Gentle Adoration Discussing Deep Within Behind The Scenes Calculating

Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly

“We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.”

People Thinking Pay Millions Demand Entrepreneur Accomplish Priorities Selling Producers Consumers Buying Relative Signals Subjective Scarcity Buying And Selling Abstaining

Author:Sheldon Richman

“Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."”

Thinking Art Self Desire Artist Grows Groups Influence Demand Art Is Evidence Empowerment Stronger Historical Isolation Contracts Overwhelming Temper Proficiency Bunk

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.”

Thinking Men Way Needs Trying Ideas Different Jesus Sin Pay Enemy Blood Demand Died Flesh Accepted Different Ways Questioning Vengeance Loving God Atonement God Image

Author:Jay Bakker

“I don't have an agenda. I don't have things I want to get to or something. I have like a broad, slim grasp of certain periods and certain shows within that period, an awareness of them, but they demand re-listening. I have a flimsy grasp of all the eras and ideas within each period of what would be a good show to think of.”

Thinking Want Ideas Shows Would Be Certain Awareness Listening Periods Demand Eras Agendas Broads Slim

Author:Dick Latvala

“I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.”

Thinking Demand Sexy

Author:David Morse

“We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.”

Ifs Thinking Want Values Numbers Demand Achievement Program Accounts Impact Complaining Consumers Streams Milestone

Author:Cary Sherman

“I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.”

Thinking Guy Fans Demand Excellence

Author:Adam Cole

“I think there came a time - probably when I was about 13 - when I started to struggle with an increasing volume of schoolwork and the demands from my golfing schedule and aspirations. I'm not sure if the decision to leave school was very clear in my mind then but I did know that in the juggling between the two, my energies were most definitely in the golfing direction.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Two School Energy Decision Struggle Clear Demand Not Sure Aspiration Volume Schedules Golfing Juggling Schoolwork

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.”

People Thinking Want Years Believe Long Stills Past Form Strong I Believe Quality Technology Demand Depth Despite Journalism Over The Past

Author:Chris Hughes

“I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.”

Thinking Kind Doe Certain Dies Language Attention Demand

Author:Edward Hirsch

“It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.”

People Thinking Giving Doe Certain Order Space Attention Amount Demand Threatened

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Shows Running White Demand Majors Guilt Critics Distracted Reflecting Get Real Pioneers Otherness

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Compassion is the key to a successful relationship because by means of compassion we can access the innermost needs of the other. When we are aware of those needs, we can begin to communicate and not just profess what we think we know and demand that others change because we want them to.”

Thinking Knows Want Needs Mean Compassion Successful Keys Demand Communicate Access Successful Relationship

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.”

People Thinking Feels Two Important Night Levels Creativity Struggle Skills Demand Highest Areas Theater Exposed Every Night Improvisation Intimidated

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.”

People Thinking World Said War Self Government Would Be Able Past Lost Company Cases Demand Responsible Great Men Not Alone Responsible Government

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.”

Thinking Wells Feelings Black Cost Demand Optimism Olympics Brazil

Author:David Neeleman

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