“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativeGratitudeDrugClaimsSellsAddWanderExpertsBe CreativeGreat Idea Author:Hal Elrod
“Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.” GivingFeelsIdeasSometimesWholeGrowsTeamBirthGratitudeGratefulWhole LifeHumbling Author:Glen Hansard
“Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.” MenMindPersonsIdeasChoicesEasyLove IsHe ManGratitudeBenefitsBoundsAffectionOur ChoicesHumiliating Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings
“I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.” MenMeanIdeasUseHappensWiseGratitudeEvery ManThings HappenGood ManRidiculeMaintainingIngenious Author:Richard Cumberland
“In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.” ThinkingTwoIdeasDoneThreeTermTalkingRiskSourceGratitudeDebtRejectsDebt Of Gratitude Author:Laura Poitras
“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.” WorldWantFeelsYearsHumansDoeArtMadeIdeasReasonFeelingsEarthCertainLosesDutyGratitudePleaseShapesConcernAimDebtDrawingTendenciesThirtyConcentrationSincereSerenityCalmnessThirty YearsSouvenirs Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.” WantYearsFirstsArtIdeasEarthCan DoPayWonderPaintingExpressionGratitudeArt IsProductionsSeekingMakersEpiphanyFramedDensSouvenirsExpressions Of Love Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I'm very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.” ThinkingWayIdeasEndsWould BeProcessProudGratitudeTitlesAugustBland Author:Edward Hirsch
“I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.” ThinkingWayShouldIdeasHardAmericaGivenGratitudeCapableIndiaProfoundIndianValleysNew IdeasNicheSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Manmohan Singh
“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.” IfsYearsLittlesIdeasShowsAgeHistorySacrificeMiddleGratitudeLatePerfectionWesternDefeatProsperityUnhappyCommunismFascismElitesMiddle AgesLatitudeBeneficiaries Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.” ShouldIdeasReligionAtheismGratitudeBlessingInnovationWorthyDisasterTheologianDisingenuous Author:Daniel Dennett
“There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.” WayIdeasOpportunityGratitudeFlowWindowGratefulEntrepreneurBe GratefulThanksgivingThankfulnessBeing ThankfulWindow Of Opportunity Author:Jim Rohn
“I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.” KnowsFeelsShouldLooksMayIdeasMomentsFormSpeakReligiousTalkingAtheismGratitudeIgnorantTunesArrogantRejectedEmbarrassedAgnosticismGod ExistsGifts Of LifeWhether God Exists Author:Karl Popper
“Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you.” PeopleIdeasBodySocialPayAttentionAttitudeHabitGratitudeAnxietyCuriosityYour BodyPay AttentionUnconditional LoveCustomsSchedulesRelaxedUnconditionalAttitude Of Gratitude Author:Wallace D. Wattles
“...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.” IfsIdeasDifferentUseTurnsForceCausesAttentionSituationEffectsStyleGratitudeDuesTemporaryOptimistDifferent DirectionsDistressingRefocus Author:Price Pritchett