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“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”

Thinking Hands Eye Able Building Skills Achievement Models Construction Architect Transfers Coordination

Author:Frank Gehry

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.”

Source: The Art of Travel

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.”

Thinking Giving Eye Dark Flower Birth Breeze Prudence Abode

Author:William Wordsworth

“The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility”

Thinking May Stills Facts Shows Seems Eye Century Everyday Interpretation Phenomenon Blindness Innate Utility Commonplace Nineteenth Century Epoch Utilitarian

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.”

Thinking Knows World May Feelings Eye Common Higher Prejudice Clouds Stranger Defense Contrary Shy Disputes Quarrels Disgrace

Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Eye Film Environment Risk Worst Red Flags Frustrating Red Flags Frustrating Things

Author:Anna Kendrick

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“I think I ended up on 'People”s '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Eye Beautiful Color Pops Lists Beautiful People Eyeliner Bummer

Author:Pete Wentz

“This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.”

Thinking Men Stories Eye Past Cold Difficulty Poetic One Man Pessimism Hiding Veils Casting Slogans Cold Eyes

Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.”

Thinking May Bigs Eye Earth Treated Royalty Down To Earth Public Eye No Friends

Author:David Oakes

“I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.”

People Thinking Humans Eye Faces Evil My Own Pure Capacity Noble Virtuous Face To Face Frailty Human Frailties Pure Evil

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”

Thinking Persons Done Bigs Light Eye Actors Can Do Lines Studios Bored Dull Memorizing

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Everything that we think comes across in our eyes. Our eyes really are the windows to our souls, and that's why at least I can tell when somebody doesn't mean what they're saying - if you just look at them in the eye.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Mean I Can Soul Eye Window

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes.”

Thinking Stills Eye Games Chance Arms Tools Seasons Excellent Makeup Plus Camps Offensive Outstanding Ceilings Receiver Catchers Josh Bards

Author:Theo Epstein

“I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.”

People Thinking Feels Believe Eye Evil I Believe I Believe In About Friendship Bollywood Evil Eye Friendships And Relationships

Author:Arjun Rampal

“Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.”

Thinking Eye Darkness Mortals

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.”

Thinking Men I Can Eye Turns Males Invisible Holes Dirty Milk Fence Fridges

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.”

Thinking Eye Age His Eyes Bogs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Book Ends Problem Eye Millions Written Reader Solitude Hundred Upset One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.”

Thinking World Eye Observation Respectable

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”

Thinking Eye Form Memories Half Vision Path Shapes Disappear Sensations

Book:The Monkey Grammarian

Source: The Monkey Grammarian

“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”

Thinking Long Light Eye Sports Emotion Happened Fans Horror Worship Blind Cups Fixed Scare Long Ago

Author:Boris Becker

“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”

Thinking Way Kind Eye Running Youth Silly Hills

Book:Buried Child

Source: Buried Child

“Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear”

Thinking Made Eye Faces Night Dark Clear Draws Sight Calm Our Thoughts

Author:Iain Banks

“Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how much I've learned over the years. I think both books are essential, as they don't really teach you one particular look that will go out of style next season, but rather tools and tricks you can use over the years.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Book Use Eye Next Realizing Teach Fashion Style Particular Essentials Tools Seasons Tricks Opening I've Learned Eye Opening Fashion And Beauty

Author:Lauren Conrad

“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.”

Thinking World Want I Can Eye Beautiful Laughing Bears Horrible Mess Blur

Book:Ignite Me

Source: Ignite Me

“Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.”

People Thinking Looks Eye Order Effects Birth Corners Disappear Data Analyzing

Book:The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

Source: The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.”

Thinking Giving Should Kind Eye Beautiful Space Liberty Essentials Distance Simplicity Variety Ingredients You Choose Principal Grandeur

Book:The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

Source: The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

“Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, "You can do it now!"”

Thinking Needs Looks Stills Sometimes Hands Eye Can Do You Can Do It

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.”

Thinking Feels Government Eye Belief Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Religious Belief

Author:Michael Newdow

“In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”

Thinking Way Kind Littles Eye Sin Cities Behinds Boys Talent Draws Casts Mickey Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.”

Thinking Knows Way Helping Eye Voice Talking Comedy Outsiders

Author:John Oliver

“I think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think we're all created equal in God's eyes, I think we need to respect and love those we disagree with. I think we can have religious liberty without discrimination. My views on marriage aren't evolving with the polls. It's based on my faith, I think it should remain between a man and a woman.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Eye Religious Views Liberty Equal And Love Discrimination Evolve Disagree Polls Love And Respect Religious Liberty

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I think it's offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being racist. We're not racist. We love our fellow man, we think we're all equal under God's eyes, we don't believe we should change the definition of marriage simply because of opinion polls or because of a court that quite frankly isn't looking at the constitution.”

Thinking Men Should Believe Eye Christian Views Opinion Equal Constitution Catholic Fellows Court Don't Believe Definitions Racist Offensive Polls Fellow Man Evangelical Opinion Polls

Author:Bobby Jindal

“Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.”

Ifs Thinking Character Feelings Home Eye Individual Virtue Land Intellectual Connections Connected Arise Locals Perceive Native Attachment Native Land Birthplace Topography Birth Place

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”

Thinking Eye Security Source Anxiety Possession Dazzle Security And Freedom Earthly Possessions

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

Ifs Thinking Made I Can Different Real Eye Age Form Grows Growing Up Doubt Claims Metaphor Hungry Coming Of Age Mixing Winnipeg

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Eye Young Certain Girl Responsibility Deserve Look Up Public Eye

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”

Thinking Two Eye Realizing Hours Hair Wake Up Magazines Bags Makeup Plus Pimples Cindy Hair And Makeup Retouching

Author:Cindy Crawford

“You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.”

Thinking Heart Sometimes Enough Eye Mistake Broken Sock

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.”

Thinking Life Eye Mistake Missing Aim Details Making Mistakes Modest Small Details

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?”

Thinking Knows Firsts Persons Eye Difficult Appearance

Author:Elizabeth Madox Roberts

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