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“I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.”

Thinking Humans Space Emotional Involved Highest Lows Flight Endeavor Lowest Space Flight

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?”

Thinking Men Action Law Jesus Christ Results Christianity Opinion Honest Example Ought Highest Standards Jesus Christ Asking Christian Life Daily Life Live By

Author:Charles Sheldon

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.”

Thinking Achieve Discipline Highest Standards Good Discipline

Author:Cameron Mackintosh

“I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.”

Thinking Littles Stills Film Quality Highest Argument Available Nostalgia Mediums Get Better Digital Capture Ghetto

Author:Rian Johnson

“To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.”

Thinking Wells Wisdom Highest Perfection Accounts Oneself

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.”

Thinking Causes Term Highest Enlightenment My Favorite Karma Yield Rama Best Place

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.”

Thinking World Difficult Century Highest Bible Praise Vices Twentieth Century Vice Versa Sellers Best Sellers

Book:The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.”

Thinking World Form Joy Suffering This World Highest Poison Purity Vow

Author:Dalai Lama

“Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Differences Imagine Highest About Yourself Projection

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.”

Thinking Giving Littles Different Left Interest Study Subjects Months Highest Rivers Edges Angle Bending Motifs Plentiful Different Angles

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”

Thinking Art Country Spirit Dies Nations Consciousness Highest Singers Locals Colour Works Of Art Wagner

Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams

“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Believe Body Used Willing Like You Highest Who You Are Your Body Surround Know Me Adore Insomnia Judgmental Surround Yourself I Like You Judgmental People

Author:Jewel

“The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.”

“Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.”

Thinking Important Motivational Joy Realizing Happened Victory Highest Overcoming Obstacles Connected Initiate Greatest Victory

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Would Be Humanity Sleep Century Highest Threat Raised Beast Prophet Jail Lions Irresistible Retribution Emblems Unarmed

Author:Boris Pasternak

“I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.”

Thinking Trying Years Wells Kind May Children Enough Use Together Lines Party Awareness Talent Highest Solutions Our Children Crisis Climate Fallen Behalf Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Al Gore

“We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?”

Thinking Should Humans Littles Speech Highest Regard Incredibles Pops Beer Odd Instant Bottles Earthquakes Flicker Devouring Ginger

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.”

Thinking Way Wells Expression Speech Achievement Highest Everyday Conclusion Artistic Analogies

Book:How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method

“Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.”

Thinking May Difficult Virtue Heard Honesty Policy Integrity Thousand Highest Errors Rewards Knavery

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”

Thinking Whole Worship Highest Whole Life

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.”

Thinking Feelings Science Life Is Buddhism Benefits Highest Reflection Intelligent Cooperatives Intelligent Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.”

“It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.”

Thinking Knows Whole Individual Nations Ignorance Pride Highest Begets Whole Family

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]”

Thinking Men Pain Evil Pleasure Highest Bravery Brave Be Brave Brave Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”

Thinking Want Art Stills Decision Quality Practice Laughing Serious Fine Photography Highest Lows Photographer Photograph Developing Aesthetic Fine Arts Wrong Decision Conceptual Art

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Heart Art Soul Feelings Dream Body Winning Brain Air Husband Demand Highest Art Is Breathe Favors My Husband Tyrants Life Dream

Author:Rosa Bonheur

“I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.”

Thinking Levels Creativity Demand Highest Jazz Nostalgia Disdain Unforgiving

Author:Pat Metheny

“I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.”

Thinking Form Highest Annoying Imitation Flattery

Author:Pink

“...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.”

Thinking Doe Art Made Beautiful Artist Perfect Progress Creating Highest Art Is Evolve Stagnant Work In Progress Thinking Of You Authentic Life Thinking Of Yourself

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.”

Thinking Values Sound Highest Compliment

Author:Burton Cummings

“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”

“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”

Ifs Thinking Kind States Political Order Politics Community Views Greater Society Degrees Highest Aim Embrace Association

Author:Aristotle

“Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”

Thinking Country Spiritual Form Spirituality Highest Music Is

Author:Willie Nelson

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.”

Thinking Humans May Real Form Order Highest Conception Testament His Love Compass Old Testament Epiphany Human Form

Author:A. C. Dixon

“The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.”

Thinking Wells Interest Creatures Highest Angel Often Is

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Important Love Is Pleasure Expression Highest Important Things Devotion Sensuality Love Each Other Short Time Revive

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”

Thinking Looks Artist Literature Deals Poet Perspective Ought Highest Merit Statues

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science. ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.”

Thinking Should Sometimes Science Technology Highest Innovation Embrace Priorities

Author:Jeb Bush

“The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men States He Man Highest Fortune Prosperity Secure Evening

Author:Demosthenes

“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”

Thinking Wish Virtue Mankind Highest Ill Humankind

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.”

Thinking Highest Lows About Yourself Lowest Stoops

Author:Joy Bryant

“I think there are some people that are capable of making a sequel more special than the original. And we have seen that when the original 'Terminator' came out, then Jim Cameron outdid himself with the sequel. Then it became the highest grossing movie of the year when it came out in 1991.”

People Thinking Years Special Highest Capable Originals Sequels Cameron

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.”

“But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.”

Thinking Feels Trying Stills Quality Break Produce Highest Lows Bigger Sticks Budgets Exception Innovative

Author:Jason Blum

“As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.”

Thinking Years Stills Two Body Culture Enemy Blood Highest Edges Deeds Paradise Primitive Tattoo Gross Drank Skulls Polished Savagery Carnage Valhalla

Author:Jack London