“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsHappensKidsMotherFatherParentUnderstandingRightsSeparationWhatever Happens Author:Dwyane Wade
“We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.” ThinkingKnowsWantJoyDiesPleasureOne Day Author:Dean Ornish
“Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMeanBodyDiesFeltBornPerceptionYeahFreakOutside WorldReally WeirdBorn Alone Author:Tom Ford
“As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldTryingSufferingWaitingBuriedHaitiDebrisRubbleTrying Our Best Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide
“I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.” ThinkingKnowsEndsDreamProgramCrowdsLoudSkatingSkatesSkater Author:Sarah Hughes
“People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsKnow HowCrazyStageRelaxCrazy Person Author:Bruce Forsyth
“When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenHalfRevolutionFineMen And WomenFeministOppressedOther HalfHardcore Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingLittlesEndsSelfReasonEnoughCareKidsTodayFacesAsksGrowsGrowing UpMinutesFrontsFiguresOne DayUglyOpinionatedWarhol Author:Banksy
“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantI CanStoriesLightPastGirlNeededTerribleOppositesSeasonsShiningGoldenWickedGet BackPrimeDo You KnowSpringtimeParishDaffodil Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.” ThinkingKnowsKindMeanCoupleAreasWesternTragicMexicoBackwardsMatthewMontanaColoradoWyomingNew MexicoCouple Things Author:John Hickenlooper
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsMayHandsValuesOughtAmountLibraryPossessionCompareDisorder Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveBeliefI BelieveNot SureBelief Systems Author:Tom Brady
“I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.” ThinkingKnowsTryingDecisionCarefulMothsLimelightMisperception Author:Monica Lewinsky
“I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStarsNobody KnowsAll Stars Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsArtRealSchoolHalfDrawsPreparedReal LifeSchoolingArt School Author:Dave Gibbons
“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesSchoolNightGuyStarsStudentsHigh SchoolPopsInsaneWhat IfMontanaPop StarsHigh School StudentsHannah MontanaThinking What If Author:Eli Roth
“We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingBelieveHardMomentsUseEnergyQualityStupidProductsLowsSpeciesSpendingInnocentHeyUselessExcellentHopefulThat MomentEarningItemsStinkDupes Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSeemsCoursesActorsWonderfulGroupsCornersAwardsOutstandingNominations Author:Morgan Freeman
“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.” ThinkingKnowsMenMindBodyActionLife IsPurposeGivenAliveSurvivalToolsSustenance Author:John Galt
“Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindMovingAchieveDecidedPushingTargetPush YourselfGreatest Success Author:Mike Michalowicz
“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldHeartCountryStatesHelpingFightingUnitedEnemyUnited StatesDemocracyProgressWorstMastersKingsCivilizationLaborBlindDollarsWorkersDumbDeafBourgeoisWorst Enemy Author:Alexander Berkman
“I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesHardPlayWantedDecisionTalkingEmotionalPercentHardestOur FamilyAccomplishedHardest ThingNhlHard Decision Author:Chris Chelios
“We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsRomanceFantasyWifeGoes OnHusbandIllusionOur FutureFuture Husband Author:Patti Stanger
“I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.” ThinkingKnowsWayShouldIdeasUseSufferingFallCausesLinesNiceSceneCrisisCleanWanderHavocAscending Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsKindHardCoursesIndividualRolesBandBigger Author:Stone Gossard
“I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTodayCoursesGamesWinningLosesObviousFeel Good Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayWellsCoursesNamesCrazyUpsetHospitals Author:Jacque Fresco
“I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanRealHandsArtistLostRecordsInspiredHip HopHipsHopsJust BeingGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:Nickolas Ashford
“Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.” ThinkingKnowsCitiesAtlanta Author:Ivan Allen, Jr.
“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBookHardDesireFunWrittenAmountCommitmentSticksHaving Fun Author:Ted Bell
“You know the slow-motion walking shot in "Reservoir Dogs"? That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.” ThinkingKnowsWayDogWalkingShotsTraditionSuitsGangstersReservoirsChicSlow MotionReservoir Dogs Author:Tom Folsom
“Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksHelpingActorsKnow HowDirectorsHelpfulUnsuccessful Author:Grant Heslov
“You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.” ThinkingKnowsHeartHas BeensAccess Author:Omari Hardwick
“I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.” ThinkingKnowsGirlStrongWatchesFeminineVery StrongBallgameStrong Girl Author:Omari Hardwick
“I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.” IfsThinkingKnowsIdeasBigsBrainValuableBelieverValuable Things Author:Rian Johnson
“I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsHardPoliticalCultureHonestAdvantageTreatsWho I AmSincereSenatorsI Am Who I AmPolitical Culture Author:Joe Kyrillos
“I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTodayYoungSoundVoiceWonder Author:Connie Smith
“I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.” ThinkingKnowsWayDifferentNextGoalGenerationsCreatingAnother WayNext GenerationBlueprints Author:Janelle Monae
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLongBookCharacterDreamNovelKnow HowAirTownsBreathsNever QuitUndoneUnwrittenHoveringBook Of DisquietPrologue Book:The Book of Disquiet Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.” ThinkingKnowsUseAgeUsedArtistHouseMaterialsComputerPaintIncrediblesOilCommandRangeHouseholdItemsComputer SystemsPollock Author:Bill Viola
“We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.” ThinkingKnowsTodayFailingFailureCostSucceedAwfulFrighteningIgnominy Author:Louis Kronenberger
“I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldPoliticalOrderSupportKnow HowPoliticianDataExpertsAgendasPolitical Agendas Author:Seth Gordon
“Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.” ThinkingKnowsKindGuyGirlEnjoyComplainingAll KindsPretty GirlTake Control Author:Damian McGinty
“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldDifferentPlayMistakeKnow HowToughVulnerable Author:Ellen Malcolm
“I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksHandsFilmGuyActorsCuttingStudentsMovieTapeFilmmakingBladesNobody KnowsRazorsCameronHandmade Author:Dileep Rao
“You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.” ThinkingKnowsMindLooksWorryCaughtMessCaught Up Author:Yul Vazquez
“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindStillsImportantHardGamesKnow HowBaseballImportant ThingsGet BetterCracksOf My MindBad Games Author:Brady Anderson
“I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWholeAmericaNew YorkHillsBeverly HillsWhole Foods Author:Ronald Burkle