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“I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.”

Thinking Knows Able Actors Walks Levels Situation Security Safe Down And Available Limbs Great Actors

Author:Katie Aselton

“We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.”

Ifs Thinking Home Government Given Generations Down And No Money Unemployed

Author:Tony Robbins

“I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.”

Thinking Way Mind Use Universe Meditation Down And Very Good Active My Way Tension Target Throwing Bows Communion Relaxation Arrows Archer Archery

Author:Paulo Coelho

“How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.”

Thinking Use Down And Jazz Backgrounds Make You Think Background Music

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."”

Thinking Ends Film Dies Three Parent Watches Dying Mom Scene Harder Died Down And My Mom

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Body Brain Planets Judgment Eating Shame Down And Guilt Fats Meals Toxic Right Place Storage Digestion Metabolism Head And Heart Stressors

Author:Marc David

“When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Wells Two Country Enough Might Water Millions Willing Giving Up Scientist Down And Clean Lists Mess Thee Canada Lakes Devoted Pledge Fresh Water

Author:Rick Mercer

“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.”

Thinking Hate Accepting Down And Tone Propositions Accepting Things

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.”

People Thinking Feels Creativity Products Down And Obstacles Finished Tunes Polished Fragmented Biggest Obstacles

Author:Jeff Mangum

“I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.”

Thinking Men Wells Kind Ends Dark White Comedy Focus Capable Down And Clean Come Up The End Of The Day Twisted Lilies Dark Twisted

Author:Brian Regan

“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.”

People Thinking Writing Down And Poetry Is

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I think a lot of people believe that they have to be poor to serve God, that they can't have anything. They don't really even know how to give. And one of the main principles in the Bible is you'll reap what you sew, and that if you give into the lives of others, that it shall be given back to you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together. If you go plant one tomato seed, you don't get back one tomato; you get a vine of tomatoes.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Believe Together Given Poor Principles Know How Down And Plant Seeds Serving God Reap Vines Lives Of Others Tomatoes

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Persons Hands Next Sitting Down And Flying Planes What If Frightened

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Character Wind Sitting Down And

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.”

Thinking Want Writing Trying Song Bed Down And Work Out Planes

Author:Bruno Mars

“Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Happens Running Stuff Car Down And Fuel Rough Slow Down Neglected Petrol

Author:William Katt

“Music is how I get free. It's a way to shut the rest of the world down and create your own world within it. I'm not thinking about what's going on around me. It's definitely an energy thing, and I'm in a zone.”

Thinking World Way Energy Music Is Down And Zone

Author:Gift of Gab

“When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."”

Thinking Writing Littles Ideas Play Light Term Interesting Down And Musical Spots Mathematical Tunes Composition Improvisation Pianist Musical Composition

Author:Aaron Zigman

“You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.”

Thinking Differences Talking Promise Sitting Down And Sitting Down Love Relationship

Author:Patricia Hewitt

“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.”

Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature

“When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way.”

People Thinking Way Should Writing Firsts Kind Ideas Happens Song Courses Stuff Magic Tvs Down And Piano

Author:Trey Parker

“We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.”

People Thinking Way Important Lost Minutes Walking Sitting Down And Thirty Who We Are What's Important Centeredness

Author:Alan Lightman

“My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Would Be Age Able Sound Interesting Advice Poet Easier Down And Digital Digital Age

Author:Rita Dove

“I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.”

Thinking Knows Actors Felt Middle Down And Casts Lists Wounds Classic Crew

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“If I have a bad hair day, I just think, Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go. Life is a bit like being on a roller coaster, which is, You get on and there's no stopping along the way. There are some days when you feel like this is pretty tough, and there are the days that are exhilarating, but you just keep on going.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Wells Life Is Bits Hair Tomorrow Tough Down And Stopping Exhilarating Roller Coaster Coasters Bad Hair Bad Hair Day

Author:Mitt Romney

“If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Helping Opportunity Growth Technology Cost Innovation Down And Stable Carbon Coal

Author:Gina McCarthy

“We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.”

Thinking Way Play Whole Song Rooms Musician Tradition Down And Whole Life Oral Tradition Mali

Author:Vieux Farka Toure

“I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.”

People Thinking Writing Firsts Book Hands Might Together Seeing Sitting Down And Deeper Attachment Sentimental Binding Sitting Down Much Love

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Mind I Can Ends Whole Form Song Seeing Down And Video Melody Writing Songs

Author:Christian Kane

“People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Persons I Can Would Be Certain Easy Easier Down And If I Could Lots Of Money Smooth Clumsy

Author:Kristen Stewart

“'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.”

Thinking Firsts Enough Shows Opportunity Happenings Down And Incredibles Clubs Broadway Gigs Broadway Shows Hairspray

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Two Song Down And Two Things

Author:Paul McCartney

“The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.”

Thinking Men Way Film Answers Consequence Down And Being True More Money Autonomy

Author:Cliff Martinez

“The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.”

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Author:Johny Hendricks

“At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.”

Thinking Way Kind Doe Ends Jobs Down And The End Of The Day

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.”

People Thinking Way Kind Hard Seems Interesting Roles Pages Down And Plenty My Way Girlfriend

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times”

“I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.”

“The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.”

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Author:Michael Korda

“I saw a lot of that. It made me uncomfortable. He's been studying me. We don't just sit down and talk, he's actually studying me. It makes me a little uncomfortable being under that microscope. But I think Eric [Bana] immured himself wight he script and is doing what he needed to do”

Thinking Littles Made Study Saws Needed Down And Scripts Uncomfortable Eric Microscopes

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.”

Thinking Feels Enough Strange Behavior Down And Feel Good Gambling Strange Things Dopamine Downers Overloaded

Author:Bill Nye

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”

Thinking Needs Two Sometimes Spiritual Letting Go Down And Instruction Spiritual Life Slow Down

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.”

Thinking Knows Writing Real Dream Reality Remember Song Sleep Subjects Creating Down And Impression Waking Trance Dreamworks

Author:Van Morrison

“There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hands Moving Spirit Community Flow Down And Rings

Author:Rumi

“As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas War Reason Seems Next House Felt Information Like You Citizens First Time Down And Iraq Connected Neighbor Burning Logical Burned Next Day Burning Down

Author:Christopher Durang

“The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind I Can Book Kids Plans Minutes Safe Draws Okay Down And Violent Lunch Blank Muse Plunge Profanity Gutters Depraved

Author:Ursula Vernon

“We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.”

Ifs Thinking America Moving Loses Hurt Sacrifice Picks Sight Down And Critics Caring Moving Forward Decent Hurting Each Other

Author:Colin Powell

“For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.”

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Form Common Opinion Doubt Minutes Judging Down And Appearance No Doubt

Author:Paul Blackthorne

“There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.”

People Thinking Way Sometimes Hard Done Certain Stuff Behinds Watches Down And Cameras Dirty

Author:Fede Alvarez

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