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“Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.”

Thinking May Form Emotion Behavior Negative Optimism Addiction Familiar Pleasant Destructive Invoke Negative Thinking Destructive Behavior

Author:Lauren Mackler

“When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.”

Thinking Form Color Edges Surface Contrary Internals Conception

Author:Jules Olitski

“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

“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”

“The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.”

Thinking Needs Writing Has Beens Done Whole Light Form Written Lays Rhetoric Swans Jasmine Surrealist Fauns

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.”

Thinking Writing Children Littles Reason Hands Form Teach Letters God Love Reasoning His Love Love One Another

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“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.”

“The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.”

Thinking Men Real Running Beautiful Form Sex Fire Flower Passionate Lust Lamps Real Happiness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.”

Thinking Facts Stories Form Interesting Hotel Essays Most Interesting Interesting Things Containing

Author:Tom Stoppard

“We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Form Courses Planets Distance Immense Unlikely Solar System

Author:Paul Davies

“What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.”

Thinking Needs Kind Dream Action Form Values Kindness Violence Talent Conflict Ambition Everyday Resolution Nurturing Conflict Resolution Using Your Talents

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.”

Thinking Art Form Situation

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”

Thinking Men Country Matter Reason Form Freedom Ability Opinion Speech Concern Every Man Stations Free Country

Author:Edmund Burke

“It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.”

Thinking Way Mean Form Spirit Realizing Holy Eternal Infinite Awful Holy Spirit Glorious Overwhelming Solemn Dwelling Solemnity Glorious Life

Book:THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Source: THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.”

Thinking World Real Stories Form Actors Emotion Audience Special Humour Lofty Comedic Real Emotion

Author:Jim Carrey

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.”

Thinking Form Design Drawing

Author:John French Sloan

“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.”

Thinking Character Kids Together Form Stuff Can Do Pieces Color Shapes Hot Paint Painter Tone Fooled Neckties

Author:John French Sloan

“They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.”

People Thinking Care Form Too Much Shy Egotism Think Of You Shyness Caring Too Much

Author:Mika

“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.”

Thinking Art Made Important Happens Form Special Standards Jazz Say Anything Ambiguous

Author:Stefon Harris

“The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mean Stills Matter Might Form Hate Actors Differences Rooms Fronts Walking I Hate Theater Embarrassing Old Fashioned Avenues Nostalgic Helen

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.”

“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Form Young Decision Seeing Habit Walking Intelligent West East Think For Yourself

Author:Malcolm X

“Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.”

Thinking Form Disease Complexes Vulnerable Code Suggestions Liable Infectious Diseases

Author:Arthur Koestler

“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”

Thinking Form Flow

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.”

Thinking Want Form Poet Agree What You Want Sonnet

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying Faces Form Christ My Own Emotion Meditation Office Disease Conviction Warm Heal Ingredients Urgent Invitations Alarms Lively Threshold Obstinate

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.”

Thinking World Firsts Form Given Immortality

Book:Lifted Masks, and Other Works

Source: Lifted Masks, and Other Works

“I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.”

Thinking Firsts Art Form Political Speak Levels Special Weapons Art Is Details Contrary Radical Revolutionary Humankind Repression Political Power

Author:Joseph Beuys

“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.”

Thinking Kind Form Growing Tree Planets Elements Concepts Symbols Sculpture Oaks Regeneration Concept Of Time Growing Tree

Author:Joseph Beuys

“I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.”

Thinking Way Should Form Clear Communication Be Good Resolve Bad Things Misunderstanding

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?”

Ifs Thinking Government Form Universe Republic Monarchy Forms Of Government

Author:Alan Watts

“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

“I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done - I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mind Looks Littles I Can Done Helping Form Deals Warm Determined Spots Landscape Parks Pale I Am Determined

Author:John Constable

“I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?”

People Thinking Want Should Writing Said Humor Funny Form Hate Duty Like You Return My Friends I Hate Racist Jury Chinks Jury Duty

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?”

Thinking Form Female Males Erotic Female Form

Author:Christina Aguilera

“The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.”

Thinking Wells Form Fronts Events Particular Degrees Standards Insanity Captains Crew Lifelong Aberration

Author:Hal Clement

“I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.”

People Thinking Form Media Television

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?”

Thinking Knows Way Form Capitalism Currents Best Way

Author:Richard Branson

“I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues.”

People Thinking Should States Form Nations Democracy Issues Nationalism Obsolete Tribalism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Doe School Form Order Universe Consciousness Function Fundamentals Hopefully Universality

Author:Vanna Bonta

“It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Doe Art Problem Light Form Fun Rooms Okay Entertainment Substance Frivolous Not Okay

Author:Davey Havok

“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."”

“The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed.”

Thinking Believe Ideas Whole Christian Form Needed Mark Flesh Officials Conventions Resurrection Immediacy Phenomenology

Author:Yves Klein

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