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“I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.”

Thinking Artist Example Pure Photography Photographer Good Examples Newman

Author:John Sexton

“A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.”

Thinking Joy Path Alive Pure Flight Joyful Brightness Pure Joy Joyful Life

Author:Martha Beck

“If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.”

Ifs Thinking Way Children I Can Enough Facts Use Happens Lying My Own Pure Notion Guitar Caring Silly Fulfillment Generous Abandon Selfless Child Of God Using Me Caring Enough

Author:John McLaughlin

“And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.”

Thinking Made Hands Lasts Food Fine Pure Gold Cooking China Coffee Secure Cups Burning Culinary Spoiled Arabia Berries Cinnamon Saffron Mocha Fine China

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.”

Thinking Long Seems Artist Watches Generations Healthy Pure Financial Faster Making Money Very Happy Speculation

Author:Brice Marden

“We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.”

Thinking Knows Government Guy Lost Simple Support Reader Pure Dollars Contribution Each Day Cents Transactions Tidy

Author:Dave Eggers

“To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual.”

Thinking World States Natural Mistake Flower Pure Intellectual Concepts Sensations Rejecting Thoughts And Words Conceptual Thinking

Book:Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East

Source: Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East

“I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.”

People Thinking Art Becoming Pure Art Is Aspiration

Author:Shepard Fairey

“I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.”

People Thinking Needs Pure Jokes Now And Then Palaces

Author:A. S. Byatt

“I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.”

Thinking Ends Sports Football College Pure Basketball Racism Fairs Coaches African American The End Of The Day Representation Old Fashioned Scratches College Football College Basketball

Author:Frank Deford

“I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.”

Thinking Way Needs Should Art Ideas Play Artist Break Painting Pure Art Is Performances Breaking Down Sculpture Advise Pretension

Author:Wayne White

“I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Heart May Persons Self Character Can Do Judging Depends Pure Affection Seeking Ambitious Benevolence

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.”

Thinking Men Writing Age Father Situation Wife Wonderful Car Cry Pure Letters Blue Affair Betrayed Explaining Love Letter

Author:Lou Doillon

“Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.”

Thinking Men May Certain Simple Issues Pure Authority Judgment Highest Blame Proof Reverence Considering Blame Me

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

“All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Faces Joy Sides Hours Clear Blood Childhood Pure Bottom Lifts Your Children Just One Intoxication Lift You Up

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!”

Thinking Watches Clear Sea Sky Land Pure Moon Calm Rising Full Moon

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Lying Honest Brother Genius Terrible Pure Hip Hop Recovery Hips Hops Not Afraid Flash Matching

Author:Stephen King

“I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Interest Morning Pure No Idea Upset Keep Going Entertaining Rubbish

Author:Maeve Binchy

“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.”

“I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it”

“I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth.”

Thinking Want Names President Company Wonderful Share Pure Advertising Funeral Association Olympics Coca Cola Pavlov

Author:Charlie Munger

“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.”

“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”

People Thinking Real Self Helping Silence Pure Ego Mere Words Accomplish Purity Bless Preacher Power Of Words Stamps Insulting Real Self Hold Fast Silence Is Golden Blessing To Others

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.”

People Thinking Mind Real Evil Wealth Knowing Pure Ordinary Lust Charm Insignificant Ordinary People

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.”

Thinking Feels Suffering Jesus Pure Crosses Think Of You Pure Love I Think Of You

Author:Bernadette Soubirous

“I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.”

People Thinking Shows Bits Materials Pure Jokes Theater Crowds Excited Versions Hanging Out Polite Hecklers

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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.”

Thinking Should Would Be Used Sides Interest Effects Produce Pure Waste Empty Active Tea Substance Chemistry Toxic Finest Environmentalist Side Effects Nutrients

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.”

Thinking Pure Smart Clean Innocent Cookies Julia Really Smart

Author:Sharon Stone

“They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.”

Thinking May Stills Hands Sin White Wonder Blessing Pure Kissing Lips Dear Stealing Immortal Modesty Juliet Romeo And Juliet Love

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.”

Thinking Easy Natural Principles Pure Governing

Author:Rona Ambrose

“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.”

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Author:Owen Wilson

“When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.”

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Author:Richard Dormer

“I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.”

Ifs Thinking Evil Expression Pure Torture Candidates

Author:Mark Danner

“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.”

“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.”

“I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor.”

Thinking World Honor Pure Competition Rings Alternatives Wrestling Pro Wrestling

Author:Adam Cole

“I think there's something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we've made them have that kind of... that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Made Facts Romance Common Special Pure Unique

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.”

Ifs Thinking Way Believe Energy I Believe Journey Fields Pure Unique Entering

Author:Patti Smith

“And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.”

People Thinking Believe Moral Seeing Effects Objects Pure Surprise Climate Don't Believe Climate Change Deny Penalties Death Penalty Retribution Deterrent

Author:Cass Sunstein

“Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.”

People Thinking Hands Interesting Levels Subjects Pure Complexes Surface Arguing

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.”

Thinking Song Pure Singing Daughter My Daughter Frozen Lungs Let It Go Pure Love Backseat

Author:John Feldmann

“I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].”

Thinking Knows Men Way Play Film Spirit Wonder Creative Issues Balance Pure Singing Lonely Army Excited Woods Joyful Childlike Swiss Tracking Childlike Wonder

Author:Paul Dano

“I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.”

People Thinking Bigs Chance Honest Pure Everyday Relate

Author:John Krasinski

“I definitely think about the types of girls that I think would like a certain thing, but at the end of the day it's the most pure expression of myself, let's say, what I'm doing and what I want to create.”

Thinking Want Ends Certain Girl Expression Type Pure The End Of The Day Type Of Girl

Author:Rumi Neely

“I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much more interesting view of history than I've ever seen, and I hope to God it works. It's classic history, classically told. No talking heads. Just pure archival footage and a storyline.”

Thinking Kids School Young Causes Interesting Views Talking Pure Communism Classic Working It Brainwashed Storyline Talking Heads Anti Communism

Author:Oliver Stone

“There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.”

Thinking Giving Ideas Reason Law Choices Moral Pure Standards Concepts Essence Objectives Rational Faculty Legislators Our Choices Autonomous Moral Law

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that's a pure, organic process of learning from someone else's mistakes.”

Thinking Way Giving Writing Song Process Mistake Advice Pure Sitting Down And Sitting Down

Author:Anthony Green

“I love fragrance for the pure fact that I think it's something that women utilize in a way to make themselves feel good, and I think this idea that we do it for men or for other people is such a misconception.”

People Thinking Men Way Feels Ideas Facts Pure Feel Good Fragrance Misconception

Author:Charlize Theron

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