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“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.”

People Thinking Self Whole Helping Simple Technique Endless Helpful Self Control Willpower Nudge

Author:Walter Mischel

“I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.”

Ifs Thinking Want Helping Ignorance Attributes

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.”

People Thinking Different Helping Information Internet Easier Track Checks Genre Different Genres

Author:Girl Talk

“Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.”

Thinking Littles Helping Culture Industry Internet Healthy Music Is Get Away Clique

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.”

Thinking Helping Stories Action Fighting Fun Scene Sake Good Fight

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Helping Hands Actors Materials Directors Direct Come Up Helpful Suggestions Shortcuts Considerate

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.”

Thinking Helping Jobs Brother Mom Dad Baseball Competition My Mom Great Job Mom And Dad Helping Each Other

Author:Bengie Molina

“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”

“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”

Thinking Men Helping Feelings Life Is Consciousness Maturity Traps Thinking Man

Book:Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others

Source: Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others

“Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.”

Thinking Way I Can Helping Bits Movement Painting Loud Strokes

Author:Laura Harris

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.”

Thinking Should Mind Helping Company Teaching College Criminals Recovery Advertising Pretending Offence Processors

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction. ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.”

Thinking Writing Believe Done Helping I Believe Jokes Pursuit Reactions Comedian Curse Bombs Throwing Filthy Irreverent

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”

Thinking Men World Years Long Has Beens Helping Problem Earth Lost Term Millions Tomorrow Impatient Lost Faith

Author:Rachel Carson

“I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.”

Thinking Way Persons God Helping Understanding Knowing Best Way Knowing God Right Road Understanding Him

Book:Vincent van Gogh

Source: Vincent van Gogh

“Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.”

Thinking Want Helping Demand Performing Agency Pounds Zionist Sterling

Author:Yitzhak Gruenbaum

“There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.”

Thinking Trying Children Different Helping My Own Helping Others Interpretation Rail Prodigies Different Interpretations

Author:Adora Svitak

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face”

Thinking Way Life Wells Helping Faces Gone Okay Blow Your Face Sneaking Up

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!”

“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”

Thinking Long I Can Ends Done Helping Running Moving Order Lost Known Listening Goes On Losing Tasks Forgotten Accomplish Help Me Labour Long Runs Neglected Console Getting Lost

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.”

People Thinking Knows Helping Running Rich Office Wealthy God Knows Rich People Running For Office

Author:Julie Roginsky

“I don't think there's a conflation between somebody's personal wealth and whether they should run for office or not, assuming that they're not actually pursuing policies that help them make a lot of money.”

Thinking Should Helping Running Wealth Policy Office Assuming Lots Of Money Personal Wealth

Author:Julie Roginsky

“I think that Bible principles will help anybody.”

Thinking Helping Principles

Author:Joel Osteen

“I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.”

Thinking Way Believe Helping Dream Kids Past Can Do Walks Numbers Deserve Get Up Stumbling

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.”

Thinking Trying Helping Given Process Pressure Sticks Efficient Parameters Time And Money

Author:Christopher Nolan

“I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.”

Thinking Doe Helping Shots Calm Nerves Ritual Whiskey Knocking Booze

Author:Rose Leslie

“Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.”

People Thinking Important Helping Realizing Economy Streets Wall Important Things Ingredients Clients Global Economy Help Yourself

Author:John Kasich

“I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.”

People Thinking Giving Feels I Can Helping Impact Everyday Focused Everyday Life Stay Focused

Author:Joel Osteen

“I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Character Helping Actors Roles Written Becoming Pages Casting

Author:Scott Michael Foster

“They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.”

Thinking Helping Too Much Generations Greatness Skip

Author:Nick Simmons

“I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!”

People Thinking Helping Bigs Think Big

Author:T. Harv Eker

“Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.”

Thinking Way Needs Helping Walks Streets Listening Cat London Horrible Proportion Disorder Symphony Premises Barbarians Discord

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”

Thinking I Can Self Helping Action Process Awareness Color Gratitude Down And Self Awareness Come Up Memoir Climbs

Author:Koren Zailckas

“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Helping Would Be Divine And Love

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.”

Thinking Way Giving Persons Helping Love Is Havens Who You Are Helping Others I've Learned True Happiness Evaluate Better Person

Author:Marla Gibbs

“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.”

People Thinking Knows Stills Important Ideas Character Helping Dream Cases Struggle Achieve Willing Judging Bases Prejudice Majority Core Decent Midst Presidency Hopes And Dreams

Author:Barack Obama

“Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.”

People Thinking Helping Today Guy Tough Think Of Me Stanley Coarse Insensitive

Author:Marlon Brando

“By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.”

Thinking Helping Seems Circumstances Intellectual Isolation Help Me Expecting Inclination

Author:Eric Hoffer

“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.”

Thinking World Writing Helping Goal Wonder Break Seeing Please Forgiving Helping Others Forgive Me Please Forgive Me

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Helping Seems Jobs I Believe Asking Selfish Ashamed Petty Narcissistic God Is There

Author:Anne Lamott

“I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.”

People Thinking Mean Persons War Helping Might Water Perspective Clean Drinking Someday Frustrated Edits Drinking Water Clean Drinking Water

Author:Jimmy Wales

“The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.”

People Thinking May Long Important Helping Process Term Answers Influence Intelligent Asking Long Term Thoughtful Polls

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“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

“You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Helping Human Beings Our Lives Scary Trapped

Author:Demi Moore

“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”

Thinking Wells May Helping Would Be Political Names Term Economy Economics Minors Convenient Troublesome Alterations Substitution Political Economy

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Helping Decision Car Selling Buying

Author:Todd Akin

“Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Looks Important Helping Home Mother Easy Son Projects Starting Passionate Look Up My Son You Choose Fragrance What's Important New Projects

Author:Christina Aguilera

“If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Mean Children Sometimes Helping Bigs Age Three Differences Forget Months Treats Raises Treated Three Years

Author:Meryl Streep