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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.”

Source: The Art of Travel

“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”

Thinking Littles Moving Grows Steps Tree Fields Roots Bounds Size Fishes Tiny Dependent Lakes Domain Adapted Full Potential Goldfish Open Fields

Book:Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

Source: Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It

“But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.”

Thinking Knows Needs Made Stills Moving Life Is Doors Neat Corridors You Think You Know Baroque

Book:Submergence

Source: Submergence

“As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.”

Thinking Moving Ability Results Coaches

Author:Brad Stevens

“These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.”

People Ifs Thinking Stories Moving Cutting Europe These Days Sensibility Fragmented

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.”

Thinking Lasts Moving Fall Forever Too Much Wave Climbs Keep Moving Rules Of Life Just Keep Moving

Author:Stevie Jackson

“I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you see some relevance in it to your own life, then it's a little bit harder, maybe, to look at the people that produced it as being just exotic others that don't have any connection to you or relevance to you.”

People Thinking Looks Littles Moving Bits Emotional Little Bit Connections Harder Involvement Relevance Exotic

Author:David Byrne

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

People Thinking Hard Body Would Be Able Moving Challenges Space Walks Silence Okay Be Good Stillness Interacting

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a capital "N" and evolving toward a very hard-nosed case for the economic value of natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc.”

Thinking Hard Spiritual Moving Values Natural Emotion Cases Economic Movement Argument Environmental Evolve Etc Ecosystems Biodiversity Moving Away Intrinsic Value Economic Value

Author:Edward Norton

“My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.”

People Thinking Moving Dies Speak Cry

Author:Lil B

“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.”

Thinking Long Doe Two Book Moving Reading Memories Honest Long Time Skins South Brilliant Familiar Narrative Two Things Shed Shocking Straightforward

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.”

Thinking Mind Country Matter Running Romance Moving Poverty Training Moving Forward Keep Moving Forward

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.”

Thinking Soul Moving Mother Sun Breaths Committed Deeds Good Deeds Breeze Things Change Erase Noon Scorching

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”

People Thinking Knows World Long Two Matter Facts Moving Lying Found Deals Rate Newspapers Occasions Acquire Imaginative Headlines Osmosis Newspaper Headlines

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

Thinking Men Hard Stories Moving Men And Women Edges Gender Domain Androgyny

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Different Play Moving Voice Term Lines Interesting Ears Suits Spots Alternatives Melody Chords Bass

Author:Paul Simon

“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”

Thinking Knows World Country Moving Building Praying Shapes Work Out Block Optimistic Makeup Better Place Realist Building Blocks Things Work Out

Author:Shirley Temple

“For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”

“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”

“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?”

Thinking Years Littles Film Moving Actors Acting Stage Style Conscious Sitting Years Ago Rounds Lips Hearing Theatre Speaking Up Film Actors Stage Actors

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think it must be hard being David [Tennant]. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.”

Thinking Hard Action Moving Certain Levels Attention

Author:Billie Piper

“Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!”

Thinking Giving Littles Enough Moving Hate Choices Energy Goal Poor Economy Path Fire Positive Thinking Materials Heat Good Enough End Times Coal Spend Time Not Good Enough Selective

Author:Bob Proctor

“My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.”

Thinking Moving Wife My Wife Justify Spain Narrow-minded

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is what many of the critics of Guantanamo would like to see happen. When the US government talks about closing Guantanamo, they talk about moving some set of detainees to some other place where they continue to be detained without charge.”

Thinking Needs Mean Government Happens Moving Critics Closing Transfers Closure Guantanamo Detainees

Author:Jennifer Daskal

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

Source: Face

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Moving Law Death Dies Turns House Wall Months Smell Fifty Neighborhood Host Clinging Supper Unwritten Potluck

Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

“The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.”

Thinking Years Moving Three Decision Opinion Resolution Three Years Resurrection Frustrating Phoenix Saga

Author:Chris Claremont

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source: Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

“Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.”

People Thinking Ideas Moving Decision Millions Understood Experiments Cruelty Temporary Territory Reverse Unbelievable Adopted Polish Involving Eviction

Author:Vyacheslav Molotov

“Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.”

Thinking Ideas Past Moving Tables Moving Forward Thinking Of The Past

Author:Craig Venter

“When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Would Be Moving Realizing Lines Straight Lines

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.”

Thinking Men Trying I Can Home Moving Energy Black Son Beats Draws Clouds Storm My Son Lightning Rolling Black Clouds

Author:Carlos Condit

“Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.”

Thinking May Facts Moving Mother House White Bills Clinton White House Moving Back

Author:David Letterman

“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Persons Long Has Beens Different Character Seems Moving Actors Acting Steps Crazy Like You Easier Long Time Models Bigger Deeper Transition Like Yourself Modelling

Author:Liberty Ross

“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.”

“There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Moving Awareness Mysticism Be You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.”

Thinking Way Humans Stories Moving Literature Human Beings Keys Letters Fingers Communicate Screens Loud Spells Translate Up And Down Telling Your Story

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.”

Thinking Men Trying Facts Bigs School Moving Law Order Levels Disappear Medical Reactions Moving Forward Frightening In-laws Law School Medical School I Am Pretty

Author:Meryl Streep

“You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.”

Thinking Men World Way Wells Done Whole Problem Moving Loses Ability Behinds Brain Focus Degrees Perception Behave Tricky Behind You Moving In Whole Picture Multi Tasking Blinkers

Author:Meryl Streep

“We've played two shows with seated audiences, and two with a standing audience. Both were cool. Sitting is more mental, in a way, [but] after a while they really want to get up and move. It's very euphoric, I think, because people see what's actually going on. The energy takes over.”

People Thinking Way Want Two Shows Moving Energy Audience Sitting Standing Get Up Euphoric

Author:Pantha du Prince

“If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Country Shows Action Moving Strong President Decision Including Moving Forward Our Country Right Thing Addresses Agendas Qualified Doing The Right Thing Personnel

Author:Trent Lott

“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.”

People Thinking Knows Want Real Moving Talking Fool Mouths Assuming Real Wisdom

Author:Derek Sivers

“I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is a perfect example of that, or even a show like 'The Wire,' which isn't all about instant gratification it's about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you'd be invited into a theater for two hours. So I think in that way, and the quality of writing in television is probably much better than most film writing.”

“I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.”

Ifs Thinking Art Moving Artist Conversation Meaningful Back And Forth

Author:John Baldessari

“When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.”

Thinking Moving Pride Grew Grew Up Where You Grew Up

Author:Kristopher Belman

“It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.”

People Thinking Knows Might Moving Grows Decision Cases Gone Growing Up Son Losing Distance Moving Forward

Author:Berry Gordy

“I really don't care what the other team thinks. I don't care what their fans think. If they hate me, great. Hate me. We'll just keep winning, I'll keep scoring and we'll move on.”

Ifs Thinking Care Moving Hate Winning Team Fans Don't Care I Don't Care Hate Me They Hate Me

Author:P. K. Subban

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