“Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHas BeensWould BeUsedAttitudeGoneEasierSummerWinterLondonMotivatedOlympicsMedalAdjustmentSummer And WinterAttitude AdjustmentWinter Olympics Author:Lolo Jones
“I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.” ThinkingWorldFeelsSidesGonePeriodsAweMelancholyCoinsLensesFlip Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.” PeopleIfsThinkingGoneIssuesGoes OnDefinitionsTraditionalCaliforniaAmendmentsBallots Author:Michele Bachmann
“I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensGoneProgramTranslationsMoney Well Spent Author:Elliott Colla
“David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.” ThinkingStillsMovingGoneMusic IsCreditTargetShiftingBowieBullseye Author:Carlos Alomar
“I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindUseCompanyWonderGoneStudyMarketingPhonesInnocentSellingCellsCorporationsCell PhoneAnthropologistsSelling OutNokia Author:Lily King
“We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.” ThinkingShouldIdeasShowsFallGoneBirthLosingRateTraditionalJapanStoppingUrgencyVergeSense Of UrgencyBirth RateDays Gone By Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I think it's the process of demystification, and realizing that we are not talking about some supernatural nightmare - we're talking about a natural process that the planet has gone through before, and which animals have survived before.” ThinkingProcessRealizingNaturalAnimalTalkingGonePlanetsNightmareSurvivedNot Talking Author:Annalee Newitz
“I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.” ThinkingWantSaidStuffDifferencesGoneReaderProjectsTendencies Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindMadeBookWholeCultureIndividualCommunityGoneProgramLeaks Author:Chad Harbach
“If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.” IfsThinkingLooksEndsGuyActorsWinningCareersGoneTalentDirectorsFlowExtraordinaryMonstersHuntingSurprisingGood WillEbb And FlowWill Hunting Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.” ThinkingFeelsTodayGamesInterestGoneGrowingGenerationsInternetHarderAccessVideoTeenagerAmazedGone Away Author:Adrian Tomine
“I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.” ThinkingGoneMaterialsEvolutionMusical Author:Bela Fleck
“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongHas BeensKidsSchoolSocialFeltMy OwnGoneThis WorldAmountSkillsAnxietyLong TimeEnormousWealthyPolishedPrepsSocial Skills Author:Dan Chaon
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director has run a one-off game, but if Hamlet were written last year and had been only performed once as a film, and it didn't come off well on screen for whatever reason, it would be gone forever as a literary work, and never would have been considered as one.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensReasonWould BeRunningLastsFilmMovingGamesGoneForeverWrittenDirectorsScreensLast YearScreenplaysRogerLiterary Works Author:William Monahan
“It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.” PeopleIfsThinkingMayEnoughGone Author:David Wessel
“And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.” ThinkingFeelsImportantWarCharacterFeelingsKidsFoundStarsParentGoneEmbraceFamiliarBrandsBrand NewRetro Author:J. J. Abrams
“I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."” ThinkingWayI CanRememberActorsRolesGoneImagineLuckyToughHearingActressesBizarre Author:Winona Ryder
“The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.” IfsThinkingNeedsEnoughWholeBigsEnergyGoneTheoryBrokenProveNotionStringsFlawsGalaxyBangsSuspiciousTemperatureSymmetryString TheoryReunitedGone Away Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.” ThinkingWorldShouldTryingEnoughPhilosophyFactsGoneHavensSourceConnectionsScientistCognitiveCognitive Science Author:L.A. Paul
“I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.” ThinkingYearsMadeBreakGoneTakenFiveCollegeMemorableBurn OutMemorable Movie Author:Jodie Foster
“And there's been occasions where I've gone brown and got parts! I'm not above doing that! I hope after this, I can get a role where it won't be: "Oh, you can't play any role other than a blonde." I'm proud of being a blonde. I'd be proud of being a brunette or a red-head. I don't think it matters.” ThinkingI CanMatterPlayRolesGoneProudRedOccasionsBrownBe ProudBlondeBrunette Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me."” ThinkingNeedsFeelsYearsDoneWantedPastLosesGoneCallingTenWeightFatsMy TimeSurgerySincerelyLose WeightBypassGastric Author:Khloe Kardashian
“I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.” ThinkingBreakGoneLuxuryCynicism Author:Jens Lekman
“I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.” ThinkingBitsGone Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.” PeopleThinkingMadeUsedOrderOpinionGoneHugeSensitive Author:Frances Newton