“We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemTodayHappeningsSolveOur WorldHalfwayWorld TodayInterconnected Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.” IfsThinkingFilmMiddleFrontsLike YouCallingDirectorsConversationHappeningsRelationCamerasMediumsExtrasNo PointLoopsCinematographersKidding Yourself Author:David Douglas
“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindArtIdeasRealSpaceHappenedStreetsMovementPaintingPureHappeningsTrainCuriousSpontaneousReflectingAcademyAngstCombustionFuturistSpontaneous Combustion Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.” IfsThinkingKnowsHardFeelingsEmotionListeningHappeningsHardestDamn Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPersonsIdeasEnoughCharacterFeelingsBigsActorsSpaceSkillsHappeningsUnderstoodTechniqueShootingConfused Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantLooksLittlesI CanCan DoHappeningsMaskTranslateCan Do SomethingTouch Me Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.” ThinkingAbleArtistStepsMastersHappeningsI RealizedCrafts Author:Kalup Linzy
“You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy most of the profitability of the two franchises. That must get down to the peculiarities of individual adjustment to market capitalism. I think you 'd have to know the people involved to fully understand what was happening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoIndividualInvolvedHappeningsCapitalismLots Of MoneyAdjustmentCokeProfitabilityPepsi Author:Charlie Munger
“I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.” IfsThinkingYoungGamesDrawsHappeningsRateCommentaryCommentatorsAssessing Author:Ian Darke
“Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.” ThinkingKindOrderHappeningsEmergence Author:Terence McKenna
“Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.” ThinkingGivingMindBelieveKindRealityI BelieveVisionGoneHigherHappeningsParadigmHolograms Author:Terence McKenna
“What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.” ThinkingHumansKindSelfMomentsUniverseChanceEvolutionOceanUniqueHappeningsBiggerWaveRidingExpansionPrivilegedTransformingHuman EvolutionCork Author:Terence McKenna
“Don't ever think of bad things that could happen, and you'll have a better chance of them never happening. Don't ever think about doing something bad to someone, because depending on the intensity of your mind waves, something bad could really happen to them. Think love. Be love. Breathe only love, and love you shall be. When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.” ThinkingMindHappensChanceLove IsLove YouMastersHappeningsAnd LoveStressHarmonyWaveBreatheBad ThingsIntensityUnnecessaryVibrationsOnly LoveUnnecessary Stress Author:Suzy Kassem
“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.” PeopleThinkingLooksMadeWholeBigsFilmProcessTermSimpleImagineEasierCostHappeningsEnglandDollarsStudiosFinanceBudgetsMovie SetsWrong Words Author:Eric Fellner
“I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.” ThinkingShowsForceClearHappeningsAdmireStorytellingVisualsFilmmakingVisual Storytelling Author:John Kahrs
“Bill [Condon] is such a great actor's director. He cares about what you're thinking. And, he's very open. Even though he was pressed for time, and he was doing two movies at once, and all this stuff was happening around him, he would still take time to sit there and talk to you about your scene and your character and what you were going through. That was really a treat.” ThinkingStillsTwoCharacterCareActorsStuffSceneDirectorsHappeningsTreatsBillsTake TimeGreat Actors Author:Kellan Lutz
“The one who plays this game the best is Iniesta: he knows exactly when to go forward and when to drop back. He picks the right moment to do everything: when to dribble, when to speed things up and when to slow things down. And I think that's the only thing that can't be taught or bought. You can learn how to shoot and how to control the ball, but being aware of everything that's happening out on the pitch - that's something you're either born with or you're not.” ThinkingKnowsPlayMomentsGamesBornTaughtHappeningsPicksBallsDown AndSpeedRight MomentDribbleIniesta Author:Juan Roman Riquelme
“I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeRunningPastCitiesLibertyStreetsHappeningsParksStatuesEcosystemsBatteriesHoratioStatue Of LibertyNowhere To GoCentral ParkFerry Author:Andy Cohen
“There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.” IfsThinkingLongLeftForeverHappenedMagicBandPagesHappeningsPlantNostalgiaBotherJimmyZeppelinsJohn Paul Author:Jimmy Page
“My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.” ThinkingWantedRememberPlayerHappeningsGuitarMumSurgeonsGuitar Player Author:Brian May
“At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.” ThinkingYearsI CanNextPartyLeaderHappeningsVariousReasonableLabourAnticipateLabour Party Author:Neil Kinnock
“In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenTwoBodyActorsStuffMemoriesEmotionCasesDyingSceneLosingHappeningsDaughterThings HappenKicksMy DaughterConnectingLosing YourselfHorrificTrusting Each Other Author:Michael Sheen
“I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingSometimesMatterInspirationWalksCasesTerribleLateHappeningsTreatsNo Matter WhatLibraryVersionsTendenciesMondayFriday Author:Roberto Orci
“One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.” ThinkingKindSeemsFatherGoalEmotionalSonHappeningsAdmireHopefullyBoxingBe KindSentimentalRobotsUnderdogFather SonPoignantScreening Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensStatesSchoolUnitedClassUnited StatesHigherHappeningsRateIncomeLiteracyScandalSchool SystemIlliteracyDropouts Author:Milton Friedman
“3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced it's the future of home entertainment, as well as cinema entertainment. I think it's a paradigm shift, in terms of cinema, and those things don't happen very often. The introduction of sound, the introduction of color photography and now 3D have been the big shifts. They happen once every 40 or 50 years, so it's very exciting to be a filmmaker, working while one of them is happening.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensHomeBigsHappensSoundTermColorPhotographyHappeningsExcitingEntertainmentConvincedCinemaFilmmakerIntroductionParadigmParadigm ShiftColor Photography Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.” ThinkingFilmTurnsHappeningsPressureInnovationStudiosGoldenEggsGolden Eggs Author:Neal H. Moritz
“What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsShowsPhotographyHappeningsCatPhotographBillionsCostumes Author:John Szarkowski
“If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLongMistakeWorryComedyLong TimeHappeningsStartingThings HappenIf I CouldRelax Author:Christian Finnegan
“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.” IfsThinkingWayI CanWould BeLanguageToo MuchFineHappeningsAskingStructureIntentionReachingWorking ItViewersConstructsDisruptionAsking Too Much Author:Lorna Simpson
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.” PeopleThinkingLevelsAudienceLateHappeningsTwentiesRememberedSeventiesConfinedLate Twenties Author:Mike Batt
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksRealFacesHappeningsVoteWake UpComplicatedRegionsReal WorldHumiliationMenaceMarginalization Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.” ThinkingShowsFilmCertainImaginationDealsMassHappeningsCollectivesCapture Author:Laurie Foos
“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsFallGayHappeningsFirst TimeFalling In LoveTransgender Author:Cate Blanchett
“What is it that we need to do to explain to the public exactly is what is happening? We are destroying our precious water resources at this alarming rate, and again, why? When we have so many viable alternatives? "Oh,alternative power is too expensive, what about the jobs" - this is dinosaur thinking.” ThinkingNeedsJobsWaterHappeningsResourcesRateAlternativesExpensiveDestroyingDinosaursWater ResourcesExactly Is Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtCertainCreativityHappeningsCubaArt World Author:Rachael Price
“I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we're supposed to live, we find more and more often that we're not paying attention to what's actually happening.” ThinkingGivingLooksCountryFactsNationsAttentionExampleShapesHappeningsPay Attention Author:Immortal Technique
“I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.” ThinkingHardShowsProblemCrimeYouthHappeningsMental HealthCausalityHealth Problems Author:Edward Zigler
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.” ThinkingCountryResultsTakenHappeningsCurrentsOur CountryAdministrationWrong ThingsWrong Direction Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingChildrenHardSongGirlHappeningsAlbumsPopsSatisfiedTwelveUrbanElevenGood GirlBest Of Me Author:Chrisette Michele
“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.” ThinkingYearsFirstsUsedWalksHappeningsFirst TimeRedCarpetRed Carpet Author:Jeff Bridges
“I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsCountryHappeningsGood ThingsFeel Good Author:Ronald Reagan
“When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.” ThinkingPersonsGoneAliveImagineBecomingDegreesHappeningsSickSick Person Author:John Green
“The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and so they'd think about you know what's going to prevent that happening with my medical records. And interestingly enough, patients are less worried about that than their doctors are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsEnoughSocialBreakRecordsSecurityHappeningsDoctorsConstantPatientFinancialMedicalDataWorriedReportsSocial SecurityStolenMedical Records Author:William Davis
“I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.” ThinkingDoneBodyUnderstandingEnvironmentSeaLandHappeningsGreedHungerCancerProfitRealizationImplicationsCarelessFast PacedLand And Sea Author:Eve Ensler
“My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything about polar bears dying or the death of bees. There were certain things I knew I couldn't go near because they were too devastating. But I don't think until I got cancer did I get it in my body, what was happening to the earth. I finally went: "Oh! Earth! Organism!"” ThinkingBodyEarthCertainWatchesDyingBearsIntellectualHappeningsSickCancerBeesOrganismsTheoreticalPolar Bears Author:Eve Ensler
“I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsBelieveHelpingSpiritualProcessTalkingJourneyHappeningsTransformationPsychologicalWhy NotBurnedHelping PeopleOncologists Author:Eve Ensler
“I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to what is happening here. I've definitely been in a place where I've felt some energy that someone was watching me.” ThinkingHomeWould BeFoundEnergyFeltHappeningsGhostAttachment Author:Jeordie White