“Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the opposite of love. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all. Love is when you have known your inner sky. There is no higher religion than love” PeopleThinkingRealRememberHateLeftLove IsKnownDoubtSkyLonelinessHigherStandingLonelyOppositesDisappearShrinksUpside Down Author:Rajneesh
“I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.” ThinkingGivingShouldTryingLittlesBitsHigherGiving UpLittle BitBars Author:DJ Quik
“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.” ThinkingRealFactsUseNamesIndividualSpeakSocialCommunityDecisionColdHigherClaimsSelfishDecision MakingCollectivismGuise Author:Doug Bandow
“Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who think they should be even higher because, after all, politicians spend our money far more wisely than we do. The obvious solution I'd propose is that the people in the first group would pay less and those in the second group would pay more. Lots more.” PeopleThinkingShouldFirstsTwoViewsPayClearCuttingGroupsHigherPoliticianTaxesSolutionsConcernedObviousPoint Of ViewPropose Author:Burt Prelutsky
“Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.” ThinkingPersonsSoulRealityLeftMysteryHigherLife DeathLeft Alone Author:Chinmayananda Saraswati
“I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.” ThinkingViolenceHigherDegreesSeriesConcentrationCalmer Author:Rineke Dijkstra
“You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.” ThinkingKnowsLongProcessGoneHigherOceanLong TimeDepthBottomMeasuringEuphoria Author:Kim Basinger
“Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryFactsMovingMemoriesDealsRichFineGoes OnHigherTaxesPercentPressureRaisesRateStrikesMythologyLong Ago Author:Bruce Bartlett
“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.” IfsThinkingIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentWealthPoorPayMoralCuttingGrowingShareEconomicHigherTaxesConsequenceResourcesProgramTablesSpendingDefenseAidsToleranceIncomeInequalityFundWealthyDistributionUnwillingNational DefenseEconomic ProblemsSpending CutsIncome Distribution Author:Bruce Bartlett
“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 revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.” ThinkingUseRealityPerspectiveHigherMathematicalPsychedelicPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.” ThinkingMayHigherPsychedelicManifoldPsychedelic ExperienceTemporality Author:Terence McKenna
“In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.” ThinkingWorldLongCountryStatesBigsGovernmentRunningDiesNationsHigherWesternProportionAssetsLong RunsBig GovernmentSlippingWestern WorldCrucibleKeynes Author:Mark Steyn
“I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.” ThinkingKnowsWayTryingKindLittlesSometimesMovingSufferingHigherEndurePerseveranceOne WayGood FriendPasturesGreenerHaving StrengthStrength And PerseveranceHigher Ground Author:Pierce Brosnan
“Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsImportantFactsBigsAmericaNextPayEducationEconomyGenerationsMilitaryCollegeAdventureHigherCitizensInvestmentSpendingDefenseBillionsCorporateWelfareEngagedGlobesNext GenerationBig BusinessHigher EducationGlobal EconomyWorkforceSubsidiesPublic GoodTuitionReinventingEducation In AmericaCollege TuitionDefense Spending Author:Robert Reich
“A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.” PeopleThinkingAirHigherCostBeatsRiversCompetitionPoisonRegulationFilth Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said.” ThinkingTryingKindSaidTrumpKingsHigherNonsenseCruzMarcosHigher GroundBen Carson Author:Steve King
“I think that different leaders, whether it`s Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we`re not going to turn on each other, which is exactly what ISIS wants. I think that`s what this moment calls for and I think, right now, you see who are the pandering demagogues, and who are the people who really have a higher standard and the best public interest at heart.” PeopleThinkingWantHeartDifferentMomentsTurnsInterestLeaderHigherRight NowStandardsClintonIsisTurn-onPublic InterestHigher Standards Author:Steve King
“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.” ThinkingFirstsSometimesMotherSacrificeTaughtHigherInvestingListsPrioritiesGood MotherBeing A Good Mother Author:Michelle Obama
“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
“I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy.” PeopleThinkingWritingUseHomeRunningEnergySpaceMeditationFineHigherYogaPhotographDrawingSymbolsAffirmationStatuesCrystals Author:Wayne Dyer
“I would hope when I do blow up that I can keep that same mentality. I think I will because I'm the kinda dude that no matter how far I take something, I always wanted to be higher.” ThinkingI CanMatterWantedHigherBlowMentality Author:SonReal
“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.” ThinkingUsedPiecesHigherPaperComputerStandardsHarderUsed To BeMake SensePrintScratches Author:Dean Wareham
“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsHappensLossPoetHigherPeriodsPagesAccessCombinationNovelistsPhrasesSurprisingParagraphRaptureBest Moments Author:Don DeLillo
“I think about never letting anybody get the ball in my zone, about being tough. If the ball is taken away from me, I'm the first one to take it back. You can rise to higher levels depending on your level of pride.” IfsThinkingFirstsLevelsTakenPrideHigherToughBallsZoneHigher Level Author:Shannon Higgins-Cirovski
“In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.” ThinkingSaidI CanFactsOrderBitsHigherExcuse Author:David Hockney
“I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.” ThinkingHeartBookMomentsFactsSupportBloodHigherDiseasePressurePopulationDocumentsPercentagesDiabetesHeart DiseaseBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Claudia Rankine
“I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is the role of the federal government in higher education? What kind of justices would you appoint to the Supreme Court, not just because we have a vacancy now, but at least one or two potentially in the next four to eight years?” ThinkingYearsKindTwoCountryGovernmentNextEnergyJusticeRolesIssuesFourHigherResourcesCourtEightSupremeFederal GovernmentSupreme CourtHigher EducationVacancy Author:Marco Rubio
“The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?” ThinkingMindDoeHelpingUseCommonVisionRichHigherShapesProvePerceptionContemporaryDataThemeVisualsColourResolveCategoriesLemonsUmbrellaVisual Perception Author:David Papineau
“I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.” ThinkingHas BeensSpiritualityPrayingHigherConnectedBeing RealI PrayHigher Power Author:Alicia Keys
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.” ThinkingGivingMeanHelpingGreaterHigherAccessHigher PowerGreater Things Author:Lori Lansens
“Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors were rich, and so the [Fidel] Castro government began confiscating all their property. Not much different from this plan to tax you at a higher rate if you and your family, you and your spouse make over $250,000. You're rich! So they must confiscate more your money.” IfsThinkingDifferentGovernmentRichPlansHigherTaxesDoctorsPropertyRateOur FamilyFloridaSpouseCubaCubanCastro Author:Rafael Cruz
“The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveLooksBookIdeasForceI BelieveRealizingNumbersCompassionAudienceGreaterRevolutionKeysHigherTransformationAddBuyingGoodwillPersonal TransformationBuying Books Author:Marianne Williamson
“Some people never know that they happen, some people never know that they had a shot to know whatever it is their dream is because they were in the wrong mental spot. But if you believe in God, or you believe in some higher power, or something... because if you think about it, our brains are only meant to fathom what we see.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveDreamHappensBrainHigherShotsSpotsBelieve In GodIf You BelieveHigher PowerFathom Author:Ryan Montgomery
“If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love.” IfsThinkingWritingBelieveHeartSelfLightTogetherWinningArmsHigherProgramAnd LoveBlockGuidanceGradesAwardsGraduatesTattooVirginsHigher SelfGuadalupe Author:Sandra Cisneros
“It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsMatterTodayChurchHigherGratitudeTraditionCatholicHelpfulCatholic ChurchHigher PowerPlaces To GoPresbyterians Author:Lisa Rinna
“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.” ThinkingKnowsMenHas BeensArtActorsFoundSimpleKnowingImagineIgnoranceHigherMetsCreaturesDegreesAll ThingsImitationDeceivedWizardsAccuracyKnowledge And Ignorance Author:Socrates
“I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.” PeopleThinkingLevelsHigherIllusionEntering Author:T. D. Jakes
“People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.” PeopleThinkingReasonLevelsEconomyHigherDebtRecoveryCyclesRecessionsHigher LevelReviveDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“Take the self-driving car and the smartphone and put those together and think about how to manage a smart grid because suddenly you have all of this data coming from those two mechanisms that allow for a much higher level of allocating energy much more efficiently.” ThinkingTwoSelfTogetherEnergyLevelsCarHigherSmartDrivingManageDataMechanismHigher LevelGridsSmartphonesDriving Cars Author:Jonathon Keats
“I think that as the market moves and costs get higher and fares get higher, it always creates opportunity. That's been the cycle over the years.” ThinkingYearsMovingOpportunityHigherCostCyclesGetting High Author:David Neeleman
“Many people think the Pleiadians are in spirit form, but they're not. They exist as a civilization in the fifth/sixth dimensional evolution, which is unconditional love, so they hold a much higher frequency of evolution than we do here on the planet at this time, and they are here to really bring the knowledge, the understanding, and initiations for us to align back to our own personal power.” PeopleThinkingFormSpiritUnderstandingPlanetsEvolutionHigherCivilizationUnconditional LoveFifthUnconditionalFrequencyPersonal PowerInitiation Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.” IfsThinkingWellsCountryFactsHavensHigherSafeLowsPicksGainsDollarsSpreadPlusYieldInvestorsCurrencyVersusTranslationsSafe HavenDeveloped CountryRallying Author:Gary Shilling
“Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside people look at you and think of what you could be doing better. Those are voluntary, but most of the companies told me they're going to do it. And I think it's good for them to say our returns on equity, for example, should be higher. Also, I think some could be more ambitious.” PeopleThinkingShouldLooksTwoCompanyExampleReturnHigherDirectorsIndependentFocusedAmbitiousEquity Author:Jamie Dimon
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.” ThinkingShouldLittlesCountryHigherPercentBarack Author:Warren Buffett
“We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.” ThinkingHigherRaisedBars Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.” IfsThinkingUseGovernmentWould BeGuyIndustryHigherSafeConservativeAnalysisVehicleOddsCarbonRogues Author:Bill McKibben