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“I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.”

Thinking World Choices Picks Courageous Routes Fear And Courage

Author:Lilly Singh

“I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.”

Thinking Should President Trump Picks Range Acceptable Cabinets

Author:David Brooks

“I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush has great respect for his father, and so did President Coolidge, whose father was also in government, albeit in a smaller way.”

Thinking Way Government Father President Wonder Picks President Bush Nicknames Great Respect

Author:Amity Shlaes

“Donald Trump has clearly put conservative around him, he's clearly taking conservative policy positions, and I think for conservatives, the first, most important pick was selecting Mike Pence, then picking Neil Gorsuch to fill this tiebreaking vote on the Supreme Court. Looking at the Cabinet. Most conservatives are pretty happy.”

Thinking Firsts Important Policy Position Trump Picks Vote Court Conservative Supreme Supreme Court Mike Cabinets

Author:Matt Schlapp

“There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.”

Ifs Thinking Book Reader Picks Awful Paranormal Horrific

Author:Peter James

“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.”

People Thinking Giving Persons Able Energy Building Huge Wall Amount Mets Picks Video Makeup Tape Electricity Carbon

Author:Peter James

“A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Bigs Wanted Mines Clothes Picks Died Teeth Desert Necks Farms Honored Feathers

Author:Kesha

“We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.”

Thinking Individual Easy Picks Retail

Author:Ken Moelis

“I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.”

Thinking World Want Writing Different Running Common Advice Strange Office Picks Financial Credit Customers Checks Cards Branches Zero Credit Card Strange Things Good Business

Author:Ken Moelis

“There are only two people running [Donald trump and Hillary Clinton] - you have to pick one of two people, and it's not like I said Mickey Mouse was going to win. This is why, like you said about Brexit, inside of London I don't think they saw what was going on.”

People Thinking Said Two Running Winning Saws Like You Trump Picks Clinton London Mice Mickey

Author:Ken Moelis

“I think that being in politics, being in leadership should be as much about listening as talking. That's how I think you can get the information and sort of pick up the nuance that will enable you to do the best possible job.”

Thinking Should Jobs Talking Information Listening Picks Do The Best Nuance

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.”

Thinking Want Kind I Can Able Together Song Names Stuff Middle Picks Corners Cds

Author:Ginuwine

“That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Looks Jesus Church Information Hair Picks

Author:Bob Goff

“You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.”

Thinking Heart Ideas Hands Moving Teach Learning Pieces Picks Chess Boards Leap Good Ideas Stanley Chess Pieces

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.”

Thinking Needs Different Reason Problem Moving Church Picks Catholic Easter Keep Moving Catholic Church

Author:Denis Leary

“I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.”

“I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!”

Thinking Book Feelings Seems Cities Picks Connections Locals Definite Selection Bookshops

Author:Yoko Ono

“I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Film Wonder Industry Picks Unfortunate Momentum Australian Film Industry Derogatory Australian Films Unfortunate Things

Author:Guy Pearce

“I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.”

Ifs Thinking Walks Rooms Picks Doctors Quitting Therapy Couches

Author:Don Rickles

“I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.”

Thinking Stories Song Grew Grew Up Picks Concepts Albums Eras Singles

Author:Nile Rodgers

“I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.”

People Thinking Way Art Picks

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stuff Realizing Morning Fronts New York Pages Picks Wake Up Optimistic New Day New York Times

Author:Lewis Black

“The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.”

People Thinking Firsts Art Shows Hands Artist Bits Chance Brain Pieces Picks Great Things Bonus Purchasing

Author:Paul Stanley

“Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.”

Thinking Inspirational Has Beens Might Evil Interest Minutes Perspective Goes On Picks Sorry Refuse Shakes Apology Might Have Been Morbid Misdeeds Pick Yourself Up

Book:The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill

Source: The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill

“I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.”

Thinking Challenges Comedy Pieces Drama Picks Back And Forth

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.”

Thinking Men Should Mean Guy Lines Wife Draws Picks My Wife Shakes

Author:Tom Brady

“I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.”

Thinking Writing Music Heard Minutes Picks Guitar Fingertips

Author:Michelle Branch

“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”

Thinking Knows Picks Fart

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.”

Thinking Men Want Feels Stories Home Reading Secret Accepting Wonder Reader Picks Prejudice Paint Delight Hearing Versions Contact Rejects Strain Mesh

Book:Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962

Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”

Thinking Light Moving Spirit Findings Picks Keep Moving Finding Peace Cherries Whatever Works

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.”

Thinking Mind Doe Book Action Wonderful Share Pages Picks Undertakings Great Minds

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection

“When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.”

Ifs Thinking Way Love You Figures Expression Like You Picks Dresses Scales Crave Love Someone When You Love Someone

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Book Moments Facts Reading Left Deals Imagine Months Picks First Time Let Me Prison Library Inevitable New World Wedges Bunk

Author:Alex Haley

“Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.”

Thinking Knows Want Different Jesus Quality Picks Crabs Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

“And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

Ifs Thinking Men Ideas Humanity Easy Ability Watches Five Honest Integrity Picks Percent Neighbor Pockets Ninety Fountainhead Upright Man

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.”

Thinking Men Ends Hands Earth Young Fall Universe Stars Rocks Missing Changed Bears Picks Strikes Young Man Thrown Lighters Circuits

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”

Thinking Two Reason Dream Sides Rooms Picks Species Insane Halloween Mist Religious Intolerance Religion And Politics Two Of Us

Author:Stephen King

“Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.”

Thinking Knows Shows Rooms Design Promise Picks Dresses Clothings Fabric Worthless Living Room Arranging Cinna Sketchbooks Arranging Things

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.”

Thinking Want Sports Picks Coaches Things To Do

Author:Bear Bryant

“Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Kind Persons Whole Asks Consciousness Particular Strange Mets Picks Spending Obsessed Mail Thinking About You

Author:Andy Warhol

“Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.”

Source: Untamed: A House of Night Novel

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”

Thinking Humans Heart Sometimes Fall Left Simple Pieces Picks Edges Shelves Human Heart

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.”

Thinking War Hate Winning Loses Challenges Fine Picks I Hate Pity We Will Win

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.”

“Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.”

Ifs Thinking Heart I Can Done Facts Remember Race Republican Picks Conscience My Friends Vote Horse Democrat Winner Voting Brag Remember Something

Author:Jesse Ventura

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Thinking Want Believe Past Beautiful Picks Beautiful Things

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Thinking Knows Picks Peeta Katniss Mockingjay Book Katniss And Peeta Katniss Peeta

Author:Suzanne Collins

“But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.”

Thinking Feels Should Soul Hands Natural Sadness Flower Picks Comforting

Book:Poems of Fernando Pessoa

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.”

Thinking Men Trying Dies Fall Quality Picks Get Back Fortitude

Author:Theodore Roosevelt