“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?” IfsThinkingWorldWayBookDifferentUsedExistenceResponsibilityMoralAudienceReaderPicksShameDifferent WaysRealmsLazyMoral Responsibility Author:Kevin Keck
“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.” ThinkingTryingLongPlayLong TimePicksGuitarNurturing Author:Bucky Pope
“When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?” ThinkingWayI CanImagineCreatingPicks Author:Toni Morrison
“So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.” ThinkingWayFallChristStrugglePicksAreasPreyStumbling Author:Alan Chambers
“I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsSongAsksSkyFieldsTomorrowPicksAsk MeDiamondFavouriteLucyStrawberriesSmall MindsFavourite Things Author:Kemp Muhl
“When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.” ThinkingSoulReadingPresidentOfficeStandardsPicksGet UpMatesConsentLaddersAdviseIdeologicalSoul Mate Author:Russ Feingold
“You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingLittlesBitsLittle BitPicksAppropriate Author:Mark Ronson
“There were 31 teams that didn't think I was as good as the guys taken off the board. That's no disrespect to the talented players that they are, but I'm confident in my abilities and every time I go out there I want people to wonder why I wasn't on their board and why they didn't try to pick me up.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingGuyAbilityWonderTakenPlayerTeamPicksBoardsDisrespectPick MePick Me Up Author:Justin Cole
“The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.” IfsThinkingTryingWellsI CanIdeasHardJobsSoundLove IsInterestingPicksAdaptationThings I LoveInteresting Ideas Author:Andy Weir
“I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.” ThinkingNeedsWritingLooksBookEndsStrongAttitudeKnowingDoorsWeekPicksIntentionInstanceSatInternalsVery StrongAttitude Is EverythingDays Of The WeekPower Of Intention Author:Wayne Dyer
“Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you can't communicate anymore.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDifferentSometimesBigsLosesAbilityWorryPicksDefinitionsCommunicateInsanityPetFrame Of ReferenceAbility To CommunicateDefinition Of Insanity Author:Brad Warner
“I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.” ThinkingYoungAttentionBoysGrowing UpGrowingParticularPicksPaidGirlfriendYoung WomenMy Girlfriend Author:Bo Derek
“We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsNamesInterestingPicksConnectionsDevelopingFeaturesFacialSomething InterestingMahlerFacial Features Author:Philip Kitcher
“A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.” IfsThinkingStillsChoicesGrowsGrowing UpPicks Author:Joy Behar
“I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.” ThinkingImportantStoriesPicks Author:Patrick Wilson
“I don't think you're going to have one bank. Big companies aren't going to give us all their business. So they can pick and choose - by product, by country, whatever. We have major competition across every product in every place we operate.” ThinkingGivingCountryBigsCompanyProductsMajorsPicksCompetitionBig Companies Author:Jamie Dimon
“The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.” ThinkingWayChildrenFactsMightOrderCarDependsPicksOur ChildrenConsumersFeaturesTraitsNormUnconditionalParentalParental Love Author:Michael Sandel
“We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.” IfsThinkingGivingTryingStillsEndsCharacterHomeFilmCausesAbilityDecisionAttitudeGreaterTeamFiguresSpeechCreatingPicksDamageWitchNew LifeScarletGreater GoodAvengersSurrogates Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I think part of that comes from time's passed, and she's been in an environment where training is part of the thing. It's not like we do a montage of her discovering her powers like in every X-Men film but yeah, there's no montage. But she does have these new abilities that we pick her up with.” ThinkingMenDoeFilmAbilityEnvironmentTrainingPicksYeahDiscoveringX Men Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayMomentsHomeKidsSportsPracticeFailingMajorsPicksTestsBallsAthleteIllFinishedKicksThrownGet AwayCyclesJuniorsEntitlementChoresJunior High Author:John Amaechi
“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayWholeSongHouseStuffRecordsImagineSingingPicksWhole LifeStuckVarietyImagine That Author:Chris Isaak
“I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.” ThinkingWayKindI CanLeftBlackAnimalCarWallPicksSeasonsFilledScreensSatisfyingStakesViewersGangAdrenalineZoosChargingCliffhanger Author:James Wolk
“You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.” ThinkingKnowsHelpingMightSongChoicesPlayerInfluenceStyleTypeUniquePicksOriginalsNotesGuitarGuitar Player Author:John Petrucci
“I've laid out my economic plans. I want to grow the economy. That's why I have plans for jobs and raising incomes. I do want to go after bad actors on and off Wall Street, because I think companies that take money from federal, state, and local governments and then pick up and move should have to pay that back.” ThinkingWantShouldStatesGovernmentJobsMovingActorsGrowsPayCompanyEconomyPlansEconomicStreetsWallPicksShould HaveIncomeLocalsAnd OffLocal Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.” ThinkingWayLooksKindDoeKidsHoursHalfWalkingPicksInteractionLeafsSlow DownHalf HoursToddler Author:Sofia Coppola
“A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.” ThinkingWantFeelsEndsPassionProjectsPicksThe End Of The DayGoing To Work Author:Eric Roberson
“At MGM there was a script cage in the basement where they’d show rushes. And I thought to myself, “How do I get into the script cage and find out what my future is?” I climbed into the script cage one night and spent the whole night in there. I saw the bowels of MGM. I saw the studio scripts that the producers had seen; the writers had just handed them in. And I started thinking this is a chance to pick my own roles.” ThinkingWholeShowsNightChanceMy OwnRolesSawsPicksScriptsStudiosProducersCagesOne NightMy FutureBasementsBowelsMgm Author:George Hamilton
“This is an industry [high fashion] that has an abundance of over-confidence. I don't think anyone would dispute that, and I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that's just a fact, right? And sometimes that's fun.” ThinkingTryingSometimesFactsFunFashionIndustryPicksAbundanceDisputesHigh FashionOver Confidence Author:Jared Leto
“When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesSongProcessPicks Author:Jarryd James
“The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick” PeopleThinkingBeautifulFacesKeysPicksWinner Author:John Maynard Keynes
“I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.” ThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesBodyEyeAnimalDogPicksCatEarsHorseTensePostureCommunicatorsGood Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.” PeopleThinkingUseStuffActingPicksPersonal Stuff Author:Molly Shannon
“I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.” ThinkingFeelsBookDifferentNumbersStyleReaderPicksCopyingCadenceNarrationDifferent Books Author:Stephen King
“I think to many people, textured curls still signify 'difference.' And kids like to pick on what's different.” PeopleThinkingStillsDifferentKidsDifferencesPicksCurls Author:Guido Palau
“Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.” ThinkingRunningKidsFeltPicksPainfulDisabilityJudgedNancyDeformityUnlovable Author:Cynthia Nixon
“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.” PeopleThinkingThreeLeftSpecialHavensMonthsCircumstancesPicksConnectionsHonestlyTwilightThree MonthsSpecial Things Author:Ashley Greene
“I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.” ThinkingSometimesMomentsGamesPicksIntenseSpotsOutcomesThat Moment Author:Joe Buck
“Our military has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane.” ThinkingMeanHas BeensCountryStatesTogetherStuffUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPicksInsaneBrandsPlanesOther CountriesEquipmentGraveyardBrand NewNew StuffRaiding Author:Donald Trump
“I've always dressed myself, even when I was younger. My parents didn't pick out my clothes or anything. They let me do that, which I think is an important thing because it allows for kids to experiment and figure out what they like, even at a young age.” ThinkingImportantKidsAgeYoungParentFiguresClothesPicksLet MeImportant ThingsExperimentsYoung Age Author:Zendaya
“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
“I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick up and not just read books but actually understand them. This level of education is very rare throughout history, so we shouldn't take it for granted.” ThinkingWantHumansBookLevelsPracticeBirthPicksGrantedFortunateCrucial Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Don't you guys, like when you're driving at night and you're like, and you can kind of see through the window and you think, oh that looks so cozy in there. I wish I could like get a free pass. Yeah, so that's probably the one I'd pick. I'd be a total creeper but.” ThinkingLooksKindNightGuyWishPicksWindowYeahDrivingCozyCreepers Author:Rachel McAdams
“It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way." That's the first song we wrote for the movie [Moana]. We actually got it written that weekend in New Zealand, so we're all in New Zealand, we're all absorbing this culture, and Opetaia [Foa'i] brought it in.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsMeanHardSongCultureWrittenPicksCollaborationWeekendAbsorbingNew Zealand Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.” IfsThinkingFirstsDoeStatesRunningAmericaHouseEasyWhitePolicyTrumpPicksDepartmentWhite HouseForeign PolicyRivalsRomneyPopulist Author:David Brooks
“Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookFeelingsInspireOne DayPicksWake UpYeah Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.” ThinkingLooksRichEnvironmentPicksCrisisFinancialTargetGet RichTreasuryFinancial CrisisDealings Author:Rich Lowry
“I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.” ThinkingWealthEconomicTrumpRepublicanEqualPicksEconomicsStrategyTraditionalCabinets Author:Rich Lowry
“A lot of kind of like the way that Andy [Bernard] talks, you know, the writers pick up on those things - little moments that I inject and then they start to write it in later. It's hard to say if a whole storyline is spun out of an improv. I feel like it has happened on The Office, I just can't think of it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsWritingKindLittlesHardWholeMomentsHappenedOfficePicksSpunStorylineLittle Moments Author:Ed Helms
“My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly very gifted ones who can turn out periodicals and do very effective public work, and their tendency to just pick up and take off is a liability.” ThinkingFeelingsTurnsTermPicksTendenciesGiftedAnarchistLiability Author:Murray Bookchin
“I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.” PeopleThinkingTryingPicks Author:Rob Lowe