“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsPlayStepsFiveFourProduceFirst Steps Author:Jean Kerr
“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsWarCountrySometimesStatesNationsTalkingProduceYears AgoGreekHistorianTriggersMixingGreat Society Author:Philippe Falardeau
“There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of the Gregor books. So, I read it and couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it. I really became obsessed with the thought of producing it, and was completely bothered by the idea that anybody but me could produce it.” ThinkingShouldLittlesHas BeensTwoBookIdeasYoungGamesBitsCompanyGrowingFansProduceLittle BitSmartDown AndHungerObsessedBotheredAssistantsBrianVery SmartFellasHunger Games BookGame Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.” ThinkingKindPersonsImportantYoungProduceBlessingFinalsTemptationQuantityTechnologicalImpressiveCompulsionStimulusPublicationAcademiaPatentsSuperficiality Author:Albert Einstein
“I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.” ThinkingWayKindSongBlackProduceUniqueCurrentsPeasBlack Eyed Peas Author:Steve Pink
“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.” IfsThinkingLooksWould BeNaturalProduceEmotionalDegreesResponsePhotographAdvertisingProvokingAstonishingAssistantsArrangingEmotional ResponseMeatballs Author:Sandy Skoglund
“I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.” ThinkingYearsBookLastsReligiousProduceThousandThousand YearsTopicsChewingReligious Experience Author:Reza Aslan
“I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.” ThinkingProduceIncumbents Author:Pete Townshend
“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.” ThinkingWayWantYearsArtistNaturalSpaceProduceCreatingEmptyEvolveEmptinessTrapsBeing An ArtistEmpty Space Author:Meredith Monk
“I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHas BeensImportantWantedChallengesRecordsProduceOppositesRemainsExcuseAssetsMentalitySanctions Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.” ThinkingTreeProduceProductsInvolvedPaperCreatingSolutionsPlantIncrediblesAlternativesMake SenseLogicalReach OutEfficientGet InvolvedTanksCropsInvitingPulpBamboo Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingTryingI CanEndsHandsBigsMy OwnCompanyImagineFiguresProduceRight NowDirectScriptsCreditChunks Author:Scarlett Johansson
“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.” ThinkingShouldWould BeUsedSidesInterestEffectsProducePureWasteEmptyActiveTeaSubstanceChemistryToxicFinestEnvironmentalistSide EffectsNutrients Author:Horst Rechelbacher
“Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.” IfsThinkingDoeAbleBitsAcceptingWeekProduceFamiliarEach DayLove Life Book:Reverence for Life Source: Reverence for Life
“I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.” IfsThinkingWayLooksImportantStoriesSeemsFallProcessMorningDesignProduceFollowingComplicatedBrilliantMatureFalling ApartSideways Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindMadeResultsProduceToughAccountabilityTough Times Author:Carly Fiorina
“Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.” ThinkingHeartKindArtStillsProduceEmotionalGeniusLuckyMassPopsSomething NewThreadDrsPop MusicLukeSo LuckyWarhol Author:Bonnie McKee
“I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasCountryKidsStuffEffortAttitudeCreativityProduceRaisesValuable Author:Adrian Tomine
“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.” PeopleThinkingHardWould BeRoomsPlayerProduceTvsFilledPhonesScreensTeenagerDistractionAdolescenceDvds Author:Adrian Tomine
“I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.” ThinkingWantTwoReasonSeemsProduceOilSaudisOil Price Author:David Wessel
“I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeBigsFilmDealsComedyProduceDeserveCreditFilmmakerAdamEntertainingNominationsScreenwritingGreat FilmBest Film Author:Bun B
“I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.” ThinkingSometimesRealityViewsProducePerspectiveUniqueBordersOutsiders Author:Christopher Rice
“In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.” ThinkingWayHumansActionCasesEconomicProduceProgramSelfishRequirementsInteriorsWay Of ThinkingExteriorHuman ActionsDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.” ThinkingDoeRealSpeakLanguageProduceOriginalsTranslations Author:Christian Wiman
“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLongHomeAbleChallengesDesignProduceRevolutionFirst TimeYears AgoMarchPublishingPublicationDemocratizationMacintoshDesktopNewslettersDesktop Publishing Author:Khoi Vinh
“In the digital world we live in, there is no pixel who thinks they're better than any other pixel. And there is no pixel that will not work with another pixel to produce something. And when two pixels come together and have children, they'll place any attention to what the color is and nobody says anything.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTwoTogetherAttentionProduceColorDigitalSay AnythingDigital WorldPixels Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidRealGovernmentJobsLeftResultsDealsBehindsEconomyStudentsProduceCollegeConcernDebtDeterminedIncomeRisingGood JobLeft BehindLeft OutDysfunctionGridlockAffordability Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentWholeCultureProcessUnderstandingTermRaceConsciousnessSituationProducePlanetsCivilizationElementsWestTensionPotEasternMulticulturalismComprehensiveMeltingFractionsIntegratingDominanceMelting Pot Author:Gilberto Gil
“I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCommonAirShareProduceWasteOceanStarvingEqualizer Author:Brett Dennen
“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.” ThinkingShouldYearsSaidSeemsWould BeChristianChristWeekShareEventsProduceMonthsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFulfilledProphecyUrgencyBible Prophecy Author:Greg Laurie
“I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.” ThinkingWantI CanCan DoPiecesPositionProduceStrongest Author:Rumi Neely
“I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldSelfBodyCrazyFashionProduceHatredVulnerableAshamedSelf HatredDrive Me CrazyFashion World Author:Nan Goldin
“We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.” IfsThinkingMindTwoDifferentMatterLightEffectsProduceJudgmentAgreeBottomPerceiveAttributesDeceivedRemarksPenetrate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?” PeopleIfsThinkingSoundExistenceCompanyClassPathMiddleSecurityProduceComfortSucceedProgramConnectionsRemainsPreparedIllBrilliantHandleErasPostsMiddle ClassCynicalOccasionalRecessionsEruptionMbaLarge CompaniesGreat RecessionMba Programs Author:Lewis Schiff
“Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.” ThinkingDifferentNextBitsProduceStudiosAlways Thinking Author:Patricia Piccinini
“For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.” ThinkingWayProblemQualityTroubleProduceGenderCirclesInstanceAcademicVocabularyWay Of ThinkingAcademyControversial Author:Judith Butler
“I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.” ThinkingMenUseOrderEmotionModernProduceEmotionalTrackProductionsIntellectBrilliantTechniqueCleverSplitsVery CleverEmotional Life Author:Erich Fromm
“When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingMindI CanPlayMomentsMightStrongSoundProduceTomorrowOffersYeahInterpretationVery StrongDuets Author:George Michael
“If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.” IfsThinkingSaidChristianOrderEvilLeftChristMoralProduceEthicsTablesGood And EvilFulfillingConformistChristian Ethics Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.” PeopleThinkingProblemOpportunityPresidentResultsFrontsProduceTrumpGreat OpportunityUnconventional Author:Paul Ryan
“I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.” ThinkingWorldRealMovingNaturalStyleProduceSingingIndiaComplexesPatternsSingersIndianIndian Music Author:Miguel
“If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsImportantEnoughHelpingCausesReligiousGroupsProduceCommunicationHappeningsTragedyInternationalSensitiveInterfaithTibetanTibet Author:Elie Wiesel
“Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.” PeopleThinkingMayCreativeProduceBunchRobotsNobelImprovisationEducation SystemIlliterate Author:John Medina
“I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.” PeopleIfsThinkingOrderInterestingProduceGood ThingsArguingBoundariesTensionSomething Interesting Author:Felicity Jones
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“I found that the best way to go about [ Black men ] is to produce better men. And I think if we get them at a younger age, and start teaching these young brothers the principles of manhood: That real men go to work everyday; Real men honor God; Real men respect and adore women - that's what real men do.” IfsThinkingMenWayRealAgeYoungFoundBlackPrinciplesTeachingProduceBrotherHonorEverydayBest WayAdoreManhoodReal MenBetter ManYoung Brother Author:Steve Harvey
“Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.” ThinkingIssuesMiddleMediaProduceWeaponsPercentIsraelCriticalEastStoresNuclearChemicalsConventionsMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsSyriaIsraeliDeterrentChemical Weapons Author:Noam Chomsky
“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.” ThinkingFirstsLooksKindDifferentWholeShowsTermLevelsResultsEconomicStudentsProduceReturnRight NowAchievementToughFundamentalsImpactDollarsInvestmentSpendingFlawsMore MoneyLots Of MoneyFixingPositive ImpactReturn On InvestmentStudent AchievementTough Economic Times Author:Michelle Rhee
“I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.” ThinkingFirstsLooksPersonsMadeTodayLevelsQualityAchieveProducePercentAwfulPotRichnessElementalsPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie