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“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.”

Thinking Feels Should Firsts Believe Pain Lasts Joy

Book:Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

Source: Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

“I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Lasts Young Next Virtue Growing Youth Generous Young Man Sentiments Old Man Acquaintance Growing Old

Author:Samuel Johnson

“First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream.”

Thinking Life Firsts Believe Ideas Dream Imagination Thirds Dare To Dream

Author:Walt Disney

“Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.”

Thinking Firsts Dies Friendship Cups Ecstasy Drank

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Bigs Steps Taken Hardest First Steps

Author:Steve Jobs

“President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.”

Thinking Way Firsts President Fire Plans Europe Presidential President Obama Ceo Bmw Volkswagens

Author:David Letterman

“Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Ideas Promise Office Vote Bigger Voting More Time Andrew

Author:Will Rogers

“A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.”

Thinking Men World Way Firsts Wells Matter States Use Care Nations Position Citizens Claims Affair Internals Household Great Nations Good Citizen Internal Affairs

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Kind Stills Hard Hours Levels Wake Up Coffee Concentration Sunday Lighters Weekdays

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.”

Thinking Firsts Consciousness Impossible Buddhism Conscious Negative Roots Purity Vague Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.”

Thinking Firsts Feelings Lost Wish Religious Existence Clear Youth Chains Paradise Primitive Thinking God

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?”

Thinking Firsts Causes Century Argument Moved Just One Prime Hume St Thomas

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Long Important Violence Depends Long Time Shots Credit Violent Genre Ultras Rambo

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"”

Thinking World Firsts Interest Wonder This World Creator Boundaries

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.”

People Thinking Men Firsts Ideas Young Black Audience Gay Proportion Gay People Demographics X Men Mutants Chimes Oddities

Author:Ian Mckellen

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Feelings Hands Fall Love Is Steps Losing Falling In Love First Steps Balanced Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

“You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.”

Thinking Firsts Choices Universe Rewards

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts May Obvious Valuable Contribution

Author:Morris Graves

“The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Today Forever Cycles

Author:Michael Sweeney

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.”

Thinking Firsts Ends Stories Perfect Figures Scene Mathematics Finals I Realized Throwing

Author:Brit Marling

“Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.”

Thinking Firsts Philosophy Philosopher Practicals Ethical Hostile Implications Socratic

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

Thinking Firsts God Political Religion Spirituality Politics Jesus Power Economics Rate Agnostic Economist

Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.”

People Thinking Men Giving Firsts Believe Real Ends Errors South Western Southern Quarters Superstitions Eastern Jungle Real Men Swamps Landlord

Author:C. S. Lewis

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.”

Thinking Giving Years Firsts Running Past Pleasure Dregs

Author:John Dryden

“You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Matter Judgment

Book:This Earth of Mankind

Source: This Earth of Mankind

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.”

Thinking Firsts Has Beens Reason Moral Draws Conclusion Folly Aphorism Dazzling Drawing Conclusions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.”

People Thinking World Firsts Earth Existence Consciousness Design Habit Citizens Madness Rational Our Time Sanity Fulfilling Requirements World Citizen

Author:Norman Cousins

“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Stills Would Be Desire Next Steps This World Harder Practicals Next Steps

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!”

Thinking Want Firsts Kids Able Remember Next Drawing Grades

Author:Dan Povenmire

“I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.”

Thinking Firsts

Author:Paul Weller

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.”

Thinking Firsts Persons I Can Home Today Together Creativity Creative Cutting Generations Type Internet Aspect Blow Online Great Times Get Together This Generation Laptops

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.”

Thinking Firsts Play Used Bits Dog Like Me My Dog Poodles

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.”

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