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“I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Writing Trying Able Poet Function Melody Songwriters

Author:John K. Samson

“The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.”

Thinking Way Kind Stories Function Yeah Mythology Landscape Dystopian Superhero Zombie

Author:Adam Frank

“There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.”

People Thinking Difficult Argument Function Providing Globalization Difficult Things

Author:Ken Moelis

“Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.”

Thinking Brain Function Structure Disorder Autism Syndromes Savants Brain Function

Author:Darold Treffert

“I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.”

People Thinking Writing Answers Fiction Function Fiction Writers

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many other Pakistani writers, they encounter ideas, notions, ways of thinking about the world, thinking about their society that are different. And fiction functions in a countercultural way as it does in America and certainly as it did in the, you know, '60s.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Doe Ideas Different America Young Fiction Novel Function Notion Encounters Pakistan Way Of Thinking

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman stands at the post and there is a very real possibility of dying in the next five minutes. Whether he dies or not depends partly on him and partly on luck, and yet he must continue to function.”

Thinking Men War Real Dies Next Five Minutes Dying Possibility Depends Aspect Function Luck Killing Psychological Posts Five Minutes

Author:George Friedman

“I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.”

Thinking Information Tools Function Plus Volume Derivatives Overload Information Overload

Author:Paul Saffo

“What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.”

Thinking Needs Long States Happens President Levels United Party United States Function Democratic Chiefs Democratic Party Commanders Commander In Chief Haul Organizer Long Haul

Author:Barack Obama

“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.”

Thinking Stills Whole Form Young Term Space Pleasure Levels Fantasy Our Lives Function Dialogue Factors Anxious Architect Superficial Visceral

Author:Tom Burr

“I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.”

Thinking Comfortable Function Selling Entity

Author:Val Kilmer

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mother Inspiring Like You Function Void Mothers Day Sad Things

Author:Marie Osmond

“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Whole Fall Family Roles Morning Succeed Function Packs Falling Apart Parameters Packs Of Wolves Wolf Packs

Author:Jodi Picoult

“This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Kind Ideas Helping Turns Source Needed Function Human Mind Stable Theoretical Way Of Thinking Harmonious Fertile Orderly

Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.”

People Thinking Needs Hard Seeing Function Bottom Ancient Income Hard Times Gaps Egypt Pyramids Telescopes Ancient Egypt Pharaohs

Author:Molly Ivins

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”

“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)”

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”

Thinking Believe Body Science Lying Certain I Believe Memories Taken One Thing Shapes Illusion All Things Function Senses Location Extensions Body Shapes

Author:Rene Descartes

“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”

Thinking World Humans Wells Kind Sometimes Earth Next Human Beings Animal Evolution Function Clean Destructive Phases Plague Deck

Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

Thinking Men May Reason Moral Teach Dangerous Prove Function Brilliant Criminals Efficiency Gifted Menace True Education Purpose Of Education

Book:The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”

Ifs Thinking Two Reason Feelings Passion Activity Intellectual Flow Function Rational Torn Neurotic Thoughts And Feelings Rational Thought Torn Apart Schizoid

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”

Thinking Men Firsts Looks May Said Different Seems Might Purpose Wise Design Keys Fit Shapes Opposites Function Useless Locks Glances Examination True Nature Lock And Key

Book:Mistborn Trilogy

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Kind Matter Behinds Brain Special Like You Function Importance Mark Tables Supposed To Be Odd Uniforms Desks Sergeants

Book:Iorich

Source: Iorich

“Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!”

Thinking Knows Needs Doe Said Ends Enough Picks Function Grass Muscles Chairs Eggs Cigarette Bent Blades Footprint Blades Of Grass

Book:Five Little Pigs (Poirot)

Source: Five Little Pigs (Poirot)

“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”

Thinking Age Social Virtue Nice Risk Wall Easier Safe Function Twenties Oneself Settling Upset Prisoner Organisms Hierarchy Rest Of Your Life Making Changes Disapproval

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.”

Ifs Thinking Function Pants Bodily Functions

Book:The Darkest Night

Source: The Darkest Night

“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”

“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”

Thinking Firsts Whole Stories Numbers Happened Dog Evidence Areas Cat Function Agents Native Companion Efficient Accurate Grain Egypt Psychics Snakes Tamed Weasels Rodents Mayans

Author:William S. Burroughs

“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”

Thinking Men World May Doe Matter Ability Function No Matter What Every Man

Book:Novels, 1942-1952

Source: Novels, 1942-1952

“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”

Thinking Way Long Has Beens States Problem Would Be Able Function Constant Panic

Book:Worm: The First Digital World War

Source: Worm: The First Digital World War

“Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.”

People Thinking Made Sometimes Stories Light Would Be Dark Happened Figures Shapes Shadow Function Mirrors Screens Motion Pictures Dark Places Fooling Around Projectors

Author:MacDonald Harris

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

Thinking Giving Persons Self Hands Half Awareness Normal Function Self Awareness Very Good Endless Conclusion Desperation Time To Think Loops Living Alone

Book:One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.”

“Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.”

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.”

Thinking Needs Economy Opposites Function Burden Administration Regulation Private Sector

Author:Dick Cheney

“The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”

People Thinking Way Ends Philosophy School Literature Education Knowing Function Educational Organs Sole Outstanding

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!”

“Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.”

Thinking Mind Whole Dream Remember Effort Consciousness Awareness Pure Function Endeavor

Author:Rajneesh

“Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"”

People Thinking Knows World Speak Strong Women Wife Effects Projects Approach Smart Function Hearing My Wife Barack Remarkable Wow Strong Women Charming Being A Strong Woman

Author:Barack Obama

“There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.”

Thinking Want Soul Purpose Glory Experience Function Your Soul

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.”

Thinking Should Children Parent Education Teaching Function Anxious

Book:Summerhill: for & against

Source: Summerhill: for & against

“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.”

Thinking Years Seems Together Science Individual Lines Information Communication Band Function Library Connected Wide Reasonable Users Wire Present Day Storage

Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.”

Thinking Inspirational Mean Different States Feelings Remember Consciousness Function Oneself States Of Consciousness

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.”

Thinking Men Mind May Emotion Teaching Flow Function Paid Missions Customers Ass Delusion Pupils Ebb And Flow

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.”

Source: Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era

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