“The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesFallReligiousAnswersHigherCallingConcernWorkersMarketplacePsychologistPredicamentsHigher Calling Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.” PeopleThinkingSeemsNamesStuffInterestMediaTrumpHigherConflictConcernSellsConflict Of Interest Author:Rand Paul
“After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.” ThinkingYearsSpiritualChurchLevelsConsciousnessHigherFairsPriestsHigher Level Author:Richard Rohr
“I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.” ThinkingKindSpiritualEnergyGrowthPrayerConsciousnessPracticeMeditationHigherSpiritual GrowthAffirmationMaintenanceDaily Spiritual Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.” ThinkingBelieveKindStillsTwoKidsNamesSpeakForceHigherAtheistThese DaysNot SurePondering Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.” IfsThinkingWantShouldBigsGivenAcceptingRichHigherTaxesProgramIncreaseIncomeInequalityEras Author:Kevin Drum
“The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather.” IfsThinkingNeedsPersonsMotherInfluenceHigherBirdRegardFlightStrongestFeathers Author:Jane Goodall
“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.” PeopleThinkingSaidProblemHouseLevelsHigherOffersSolutionsGreenClimateClimate ChangeProductionsSolveMindsetFuelEngineeringPollutionAgricultureFossilsParadigmFossil FuelAdmittingHigher LevelIndustrialization Author:Vandana Shiva
“We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.” ThinkingMightHappensPolicyTrumpHigherPeriodsInnovationAdministrationUncertaintyRangeBudgets Author:Bill Gates
“Chunking is the ability of the brain to learn from data you take in, without having to go back and access or think about all that data every time. As a kid learning how to ride a bike, for instance, you have to think about everything you're doing. You're brain is taking in all that data, and constantly putting it together, seeing patterns, and chunking them together at a higher level. So eventually, when you get on a bike, your brain doesn't have to think about how to ride a bike anymore. You've chunked bike riding.” ThinkingKidsTogetherAbilityLevelsBrainSeeingHigherPatternsAccessInstanceDataRidingBikeDoing YouHigher LevelBike Riding Author:Kevin Maney
“Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.” PeopleThinkingLittlesArtTodayFormComedyHard WorkHigherStandardsHarderCriticalAnalysisBrutalPopularityWork HarderJudgmentalStand Up ComedyHigher StandardsCritical Analysis Author:Joe Rogan
“I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump higher, or win a Super Bowl, you have to set that goal for yourself before you go out and achieve it. I think you have to regulate it, and see how you're building toward it every single day. Am I getting closer to that ultimate goal? Am I doing everything I possibly can today to be successful? I'm always very cognitive of my goals.” IfsThinkingWantBelieveCareTodayWinningI BelieveGoalSuccessfulAchieveBuildingHigherUltimateIncreasePressesDon't CareI Believe InSettingSettingsI Don't CareBeing SuccessfulPoundsBowlsSetting GoalsBenchesCognitiveSuper BowlUltimate Goal Author:Larry Fitzgerald
“I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.” ThinkingYearsMeanMadeCountryStrongLevelsInfluenceBuddhismHigherYears AgoImportanceChinaEastEducatedBuddhistFortunateJapanAsianKoreaEnlighteningHigher LevelHong KongThailandBurmaSri LankaImportance Of EducationAsian Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.” PeopleThinkingSpeakLanguageViewsPoetHigherOrdinaryPlanesDaily LifeOrdinary People Author:Stephen King
“A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.” ThinkingLiteratureGoalHigherPoliticianDebateManipulationManipulateSetting GoalsHigher Goals Author:Dean Koontz
“I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.” PeopleThinkingWantLongStillsSecretRolesBecomingHigherDiversePredictableProfile Author:Christian Bale
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” ThinkingWayChildrenWarPhilosophyReligionEducationGrowing UpGrowingYouthHigherDiversityPhilosophicalSocial JusticeIndividualityCorruptionEsteemThriveThought ProvokingConformityConformUpbringingNihilismOpen MindedBeing DifferentNonconformityPeer PressureConformistYouthfulnessYouth CultureNonconformistConformity And IndividualityLunatic AsylumsThinking DifferentlyPolitical CorruptionCorrupt SocietyThinking Alike Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.” PeopleThinkingMovementExpressionHigherBalletAcceptableDirtElitist Author:Yoko Ono
“I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.” ThinkingLittlesBitsHonestHigherLittle BitStakesHangover Author:Todd Phillips
“I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.” ThinkingBelieveHumansKindArtFormArtistHumanityHigherConfusionEndeavorElitesExaltedArts And Humanities Author:Steven Pinker
“The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.” ThinkingLooksReasonLevelsBrainHigherOrganizationAnalysisPsychologistCognitiveTissuesHigher Level Author:Steven Pinker
“I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.” ThinkingTermAudienceHigherExpectationsBarsAuthenticityThese Days Author:Shawn Ryan
“I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.” ThinkingWritingYearsPersonsPlayOpinionParticularMonthsHigherAverageMoodRelevantAverage PersonGood Mood Author:Wallace Shawn
“No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.” PeopleIfsThinkingMatterRememberTakenHigherCommandLoudClimbs Author:Simon Sinek
“Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.” ThinkingMeanCuttingHigherConsumersElectricityCarbonEmissionsCarbon EmissionsEpa Author:Fred Upton
“The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.” IfsThinkingWorldGamesEffortOpinionTelevisionHigherDividedViewersCablesIndicationGoodwill Author:Tony Verna
“And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.” PeopleThinkingWayGodMovingSpiritualityOpportunityChallengesLevelsConsciousnessSeeingHigherExperienceWay Of ThinkingHigher Level Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLawHigherChainsAdministrationOfficersCopLaw EnforcementEnforcementFood Chain Author:Bruce Willis
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” ThinkingInspirationalMindMotivationalFunnySpiritualityLeadershipAttitudeCourageSelf EsteemPositivePositive ThinkingConfidenceHigherAttractionLaw Of AttractionNurtureSelf EmpowermentGreat AttitudePower Of AttractionGreat Self Esteem Author:Benjamin Disraeli