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“Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.”

Ifs Thinking States Seems Care Values Winning Moral Messages Smart Red Folks Metaphor Favors Health Care Appeals Etc Voters Describing Affordable Moral Values Affordable Health Care

Author:Eric Liu

“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”

“I've never run across anybody who suggested that women need to be reprogrammed. I don't think I've even come across anybody who wanted to teach a girl how to throw right. They just accept it is what it is. But honestly, folks, it's always reprogramming men. It's always men who seem to provide or be at the root of all of these cultural problems. And if we could just make men less like men and more like, I guess, women, then we would be rid of all of these problems.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Problem Seems Would Be Running Wanted Girl Accepting Teach Roots Folks Honestly It Is What It Is

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.”

“I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Seems Left Common Pay Wings Workers Common Sense Corporations Giants Stamps Profitable Left Wing Food Stamps

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.”

Thinking World Giving Real Seems Levels Drama Performances Occasions Shooting Real World Real Things

Author:Tony Scott

“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”

Thinking Play Use Light Seems Fall Shadow Surface Shade Stains Light And Shadow

Author:John French Sloan

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Humans Said Ideas Real Whole Seems Earth Stuff Alive Information Ambition Deserve Mere Brands What If Founders Artifacts Human Thought

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.”

People Thinking Kind I Can Seems Situation Stressful Stressful Situations

Author:Scott Stossel

“Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.”

Ifs Thinking Real Seems Honest Photograph Imperfect Smooth Slick

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.”

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Author:Emily Rodda

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”

Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Writing Two Seems Would Be Talking Connections World History Great Writers Talkers

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.”

People Thinking Done Problem Seems America Differences Hurt United Effort Leader Worry Bigger Threat Prestige Being Done Stop Worrying Unending Organizational

Author:Malcolm X

“If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.”

Ifs Thinking Art Seems Wise Appreciate Foolish Shallow Thyself

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.”

Thinking Men Seems Moral Modern Dog Judging Standards Rounds Winter Invention Civilized Belly Carpet Toilets Baths Vacuums Cleanliness Cleaners Modern Man

Book:My country and my people

Source: My country and my people

“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.”

Thinking Writing Mean Matter Seems Fall Games Views Attitude Audience Hearing Point Of View Dull Prose Shallow Restless Foul Begets Writing By Writers American Writer

Author:Robertson Davies

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

Thinking Way Littles Whole Seems Past Water Consciousness Experience Depth Lakes Transparent Past Experiences

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1

“Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Facts Seems Survival Stores Ships Islands Twelve Load Furniture Fifth Avenues Starvation Supplies Matter Of Fact Huts Robinson Crusoe Fifth Avenue

Author:Will Cuppy

“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.”

Thinking Kind May Character Seems Age Political Speak Fun Imagination Miracle International Dare Boring Deny Hearing Dull Liars Fraud Arena Madmen Reassuring

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”

Thinking Giving Seems Stuff Behinds Pieces Building Elements Towns Structure Block Repeats Fabric Building Blocks

Author:Christopher Alexander

“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.”

Thinking Kind Problem Seems Certain Interesting Half Principles Absolutes Drawing Quantity Typical Comprehensive Clumsy Caricatures Absolute Truth Half Truth

Author:Eric Hoffer

“By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.”

Thinking Helping Seems Circumstances Intellectual Isolation Help Me Expecting Inclination

Author:Eric Hoffer

“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Thinking Sometimes Seems Memories Half Honor Involved Remains Green Harm Graves Contradiction Logical Cemetery No Memory

Book:Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Helping Seems Jobs I Believe Asking Selfish Ashamed Petty Narcissistic God Is There

Author:Anne Lamott

“I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.”

“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy - it has a weight to it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Reason Seems Path Band Connections Weight Heavy Deeper Adore

Author:Billy Corgan

“Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.”

Thinking Should Said Seems Spirit Fun Divorce Contrary Contests

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.”

Thinking Art Seems Situation Comfort Pure Peaceful Vulgarity Melodrama

Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?”

Thinking Doe I Can Play Character Seems Fun Roles Approach Honestly Gigs Physicality

Author:Halle Berry

“If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Hurt Creativity Creative Harder Sticks Prepared Disappointment Boring Be Creative

Author:Chuck Barris

“The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.”

People Thinking Men War Seems Action Together Military Members Normal Europe Criminals Backgrounds Distinction Good Man Division Military Action Georgians

Author:Jeff Cooper

“The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.”

Thinking Years Stories Seems Age Lost Nations Simple Economic Approach Management Seven Fats Contact Welfare Egypt Prudent Homely

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.”

Thinking Believe Seems Catholic Catholicism Believe In God

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time.”

Thinking Want Writing Doe Hard Seems Would Be Talking Example Vote Constitution Ministers Abortion One Time Prohibition Fundamentalist Hampshire New Hampshire Against Abortion Affable

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.”

Thinking Knows Seems Wanted Mines

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Seems Happens Fall Bits Goal Race Team Wind Right Now Little Bit Tough Adversity Fragile Sail Benches Playoffs Really Positive

Author:Wes Walz

“Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that when I think that I'm being attacked by unseen forces, it probably just means that I am going insane.”

Ifs Thinking Should May Mean Seems Today Remember Force Insane Demon Unseen Attacking Illusory Unseen Forces

Author:John S. Hall

“It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".”

People Thinking Doe Made Ideas Seems Ironic Vocal

Author:Pat Condell

“The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.”

Thinking Seems Poet Pure Program Ghost Useless Misled Wordsworth

Author:Katy Lederer

“I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.”

Thinking World Kind States Seems Terrible Response Caught Lifestyle Denial Flames

Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

“The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.”

Thinking Should Mean Ideas Seems Government Leader Notion Partners Compelling Domain Really Mean Mantras

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

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