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“If someone has something you want, they can wrap you - they can make you think that they've got something that you have to get from them. They're the exclusive source. They are the only one who can make you happy.”

Ifs Thinking Want Source Exclusive Wraps Make You Happy Make You Think

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows May Stills Country Energy Strong Movement Source Areas Wings Average Oil Alternatives Texas Hippie Right Wing Drills Texan Alternative Energy

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Trying Kind Goal Decision Rich Products Source Marketing Strikes Capitalist Users Modest Venture Open Source Venture Capitalists

Author:Blake Ross

“In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.”

Thinking Situation Source Weakness Substance Impatience Weakness And Fear

Author:Jim Rohn

“Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.”

Thinking Figures Source Decades Judas Judas Iscariot

Author:John Shelby Spong

“So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.”

Thinking Feels Source Periods Research Territory Initials Fertile

Author:Rose Tremain

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.”

Thinking Decision Risk Source Majors Optimism Decision Making High Risk

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”

Thinking Matter Facts Government Source Savior Federal Government False Hope

Author:Tim Scott

“When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts.”

Thinking Feels Trying May Moments Feelings Answers Effort Emotion Accepting Source Available Substitutes Good Thoughts

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don't listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based protein sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping feeding it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!”

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.”

Thinking Values Roles Source Balance Ecology Linked License Discomfort Gardener Toxicity Caregivers

Author:Terence McKenna

“I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.”

Thinking Believe My Own Source Attributes Outlook Adequate Regularity Source Of Happiness My Own Happiness

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.”

Thinking Should Use Source Cia Fbi Mischief

Author:Jerry Brown

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“I think it's not fair to the uniqueness and wonderfulness of the individuals, that we can complement one another greatly, but we are not the source of each other's happiness, especially if you don't know who the hell you're talking to.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Individual Talking Hell Source Fairs Uniqueness Not Fair Complement

Author:Chris Pine

“If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.”

Ifs Thinking Years Country States Jobs Next Energy Nations United United States Economic Source Tomorrow Built Clean Investment China Germany Next Day Clean Energy Energy Sources New Energy

Author:Barack Obama

“I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.”

Thinking Kind Consciousness Pieces Source Comfort Stones Oblivion Brooks Ripple

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”

Source: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

“This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.”

Thinking Records Source Agree Driving Embarrassment Psychoanalysis Aberration

Author:Zulima Farber

“He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.”

Thinking Pain Suffering Teaching Source Medicine Cures Ailments

Author:George Ohsawa

“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”

Thinking May Feelings Faces Process Forget Ready Source Integrity Sorrow Depth Painful Deny Contrary Guidance Transformed Forget It Painful Experiences

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”

Thinking Persons Past Lying Wise Regret Source Anticipation Calamity Express Yourself No Regrets I Regret Have No Regrets Past Regrets

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.”

“I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.”

Thinking May Mean Helping Hands Suffering Fall Politics Economy Land Source Exercise Areas Liberalism Dependent Treatment Monopoly Lordship Irrigation

Author:Grover Cleveland

“I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.”

People Thinking Company Economy Information Source Pulse

Author:Steve Ballmer

“There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.”

Thinking Mind Heart Bigs Joy Realizing Awareness Source Satisfaction Transcendent True Peace Big Heart

Author:Dennis Merzel

“I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.”

People Thinking World Process Information Television Source Balance Democratic Fairness Principal Democratic Process

Author:Alexander Stille

“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.”

Thinking Should Book Matter Stories School Political Language Common Study Students Source Pure Conflict Structure Shocking Compelled Public School

Author:David Plotz

“When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.”

Thinking Want Mean Different Source One Day Interviews Doing Good

Author:Meek Mill

“It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.”

Thinking Writing Long Acting Materials Source Easier Scripts My Time Wasting My Time

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.”

Thinking Way Different Realizing Lines Media Information Source Crosses Traditional One Way Learning To Read Between The Lines Read Between The Lines

Author:Immortal Technique

“The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.”

Thinking Lying Source Thinking Of Others

Author:Shantideva

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”

Thinking Eye Security Source Anxiety Possession Dazzle Security And Freedom Earthly Possessions

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.””

Ifs Thinking Knows Years I Can Done Remember Wish Levels Source Devil Sitting Years Ago Yeah Convinced Mediums Relate Satan Demon Dozen Possessed Exorcist

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”

Thinking Littles Made Able Remember Process Deals Fashion Source Lovers Aging Silent Complexes Legs Tails Negotiation Bargains Frogs Mermaid Remember Something Tadpoles

Author:Rae Armantrout

“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”

Thinking Trying Materials Source Former Primaries Librarian Primary Source

Author:Theresa Breslin

“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.”

Thinking Wealth Careers Source Achievement Individuality Determine Daily Life Dominant

Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy

“I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.”

Thinking Believe Science Imagination Study Taken Source Spring Research Astronomy Sincere Deep Thinking

Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Moments Problem Inspiration Seems History Clear Source Gains Deeper

Book:Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

Source: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

“Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Wells Bigs Purpose Source Moon Empty Heavy Fuel What If Sole Rockets

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Suffering Speak Source Dare Timidity

Book:John Adams

Source: John Adams

“We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.”

Thinking Said Left Son Source Findings Daughter Nine Doctrine Buddhist Empires Immense Icons Capes Cobras Brahmins

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.”

Thinking Enough Found History Modern Source Plot Professors Scholar Associates Chronicles Resourcefulness

Book:Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject

Source: Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject

“The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special. But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source. The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift. That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Beautiful Night Darkness Special Talent Source Creatures Ordinary Extraordinary Insects Daytime Firefly Unassuming

Book:Rainshadow Road

Source: Rainshadow Road