“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.” ThinkingSufferingPerfectCitiesTalkingSeeingHappenedHonestNostalgiaBeing HonestBelovedFlawsBaltimore Author:Laura Lippman
“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksReasonTalkingEuropeWell BeingPotDividesCartoonPakistanTurkeysIdeologicalBoilingMuslim World Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.” IfsThinkingAnimalTalkingPlantEnvironmentalSavingTranslatePlants And Animals Author:Jim Fowler
“Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsWellsValuesSocialTalkingEnvironmentalWell BeingConsistentWay Of Talking Author:Peter Senge
“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyTalkingImagineColdTruth IsWoundsBunchKillersHeartedSealsHeartlessToughnessBrainwashedMental ToughnessCold BloodedKind HeartedJovial Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldVoiceBehindsTalkingRightsReachingWomens RightsResonatingMalala Author:Malala Yousafzai
“There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsTalkingCoupleExceptionForty Author:Walter Lord
“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSoundSimpleTalkingTelevisionPerfectly Good Author:Paul McGann
“I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.” PeopleThinkingTalkingTalking Down Author:Bob McDonnell
“I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesHardPlayWantedDecisionTalkingEmotionalPercentHardestOur FamilyAccomplishedHardest ThingNhlHard Decision Author:Chris Chelios
“I'd have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that's sound, Scriptural teaching.” ThinkingChristianEvilForceSoundViewsTalkingTeachingDevilSatan Author:Peter Hollingworth
“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.” ThinkingYearsWellsLooksEndsNextGoalTalkingAchieveSeriousDadCrossesMy DadNext Year Author:Miranda Leek
“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLongTurnsTalkingEconomyCuttingPolicyRateFedsStimulusBetter WaysMonetaryMonetary Policy Author:Franklin Raines
“To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.” ThinkingWayFirstsTodayActionSuccessTalkingBest WayChampionThoughts And Actions Author:Hal Elrod
“We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?” PeopleIfsThinkingMenHas BeensYoungTalkingVisionProgressCrazySurvivalBuiltTrainEnvironmentalWildernessNot Talking Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksRunningGuyBitsRealizingTalkingSkillsFundInvestorsUsualFounders Author:David Plotz
“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.” ThinkingArtTalkingWatchesComedyTelevisionOneself Book:Paperweight Source: Paperweight
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.” ThinkingMenTalkingAffairSpeakersGreat Speakers Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Talking about an X-Men Kissing scene I had to lay down there and think of England as one by one they bring out the girls. It was a very tough morning... After each girl had finished, the crew would hold up scorecards.” ThinkingMenGirlTalkingMorningSceneKissingToughEnglandLaysFinishedCrewX MenMorning After Author:Hugh Jackman
“One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBookGoalTalkingPagesNonfiction Author:Thomas Cahill
“David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.” ThinkingShouldTalkingQuietGoldenSilverBeckhamBeing Quiet Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson
“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLifeIdeasDifferentTogetherJobsMovingTalkingGroupsAspectArguingGood IdeasDifferent PeoplesPeople TalkingDifferent Jobs Author:Steve Jobs
“I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayInspirationalNeedsUseShowsProblemWantedHateTalkingCreatingI HateTablesBunchSlidesPresentationPowerpointHash Author:Steve Jobs
“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsStatesHelpingUsedCitiesTalkingColdStoresWeatherMiserableMiserable PeopleMusic City Author:Yukimi Nagano
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” ThinkingSuccessBusinessTalkingTechnologyInformationBecomingSelf ImprovementBusiness SuccessInformation TechnologyInternet Technology Author:Bill Gates
“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.” IfsThinkingLittlesI CanCertainBitsTalkingLittle BitToneTiming Author:David First
“I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.” IfsThinkingWantDoeShowsGuyInterestingTalkingCareersMinutesMarriedJokesShoesShoppingBeing MarriedCaricaturesKeep Talking Author:David Cross
“I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.” ThinkingWayFeelsPartyTalkingSpecialStrangerNervousUncomfortableTalking To StrangersMake Me Feel Special Author:Jonathan Coulton
“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.” PeopleThinkingGivingMindIdeasFactsSeemsHappensForceProcessChanceAttentionTalkingCreativeDemandEssentialsResearchReflectionWanderInternalsAllowingLife ExperienceCreative ProcessPersonal LifeConstructiveBrutesGreat IdeaDaydreamingNot TalkingDefaultSuggestingDipBrute Force Author:Scott Barry Kaufman
“But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.” IfsThinkingDoeCharacterAmericaTalkingSeriousBrotherIndependentFilmmakerCaptainsMistakenRaccoons Author:James Gunn
“I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.” ThinkingRealFunTalkingInternetSafeReal FriendsLame Author:Miley Cyrus
“How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do you get something, do you put that into words of your own, from what they say, or from what you think? Or if it were music over the radio, have you ever tried to think how it would look?” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsLooksPersonsTalkingPhonesRadio Author:Arthur Dove
“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.” ThinkingWayMadeInterestTalkingWonderfulMastersPaperSittingDrawingWanderDocumentsScrapDutchSaloonsWandering AroundWay Of Talking Author:John French Sloan
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsBookStoriesSeemsGirlPleasureLevelsTalkingBoysWonderfulReaderSixSellsCopiesSix Year Olds Author:Emily Rodda
“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.” ThinkingMenCountryStatesWholeFactsLyingTalkingFiveMinutesIgnoranceHugeTerriblePaidIraqTerroristHave FaithSeptemberFive MinutesCiaSeptember 11Not TalkingSaudisDividendsPublic EducationTerrorist AttacksCovertSeptember 11 2001JurorsBlatant Lies Author:Fran Lebowitz
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingTwoSeemsWould BeTalkingConnectionsWorld HistoryGreat WritersTalkers Author:Fran Lebowitz
“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindCountryMomentsUseOpportunityWinningLosesChallengesActingTalkingMissingSeriousSmartToughElectionOur CountrySecureOpponentsPartisansPlaybooks Author:Barack Obama
“I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.” ThinkingFilmTalkingDigital Author:Mel Gibson
“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.” ThinkingProblemValuesJesusChurchTalkingKindnessPrayingRepublicanWingsConservativeToleranceGenerosityVotingLoyalFairnessProblem SolvingRationalityRight WingKindness GenerosityGoing To Church Author:Bill Maher
“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.” ThinkingMindChildrenLittlesIdeasMotherFatherHalfTalkingSawsForgottenNeighborManifestDestroyingAgnosticHere And ThereBountyDead Mother Book:Winesburg, Ohio Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.” ThinkingTalkingWorst Author:Gracie Allen
“When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed. That was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science - in my opinion, this is just an opinion - that's where science leads you.” ThinkingMenLastsTalkingOpinionSawsScientistShowersLast TimeGreat Scientist Author:Ben Stein
“No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.” ThinkingShouldMeanArtMatterHappensTalkingCreativityPaintingAbsolutesCookingPhysicsCraftsEtcChemistryEngineeringNot Talking Author:Alton Brown
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsIndividualTalkingHellSourceFairsUniquenessNot FairComplement Author:Chris Pine
“C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.” ThinkingNeedsLongAgeRaceTalkingCasesRevolutionYeahSexualityRevelationsOrganizeNew AgeSegregation Author:Prince
“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.” ThinkingLiteratureMy OwnTalkingEmptyI RealizedRanSkullsBurroughs Author:Allen Ginsberg
“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.” ThinkingWantWritingDoeHardSeemsWould BeTalkingExampleVoteConstitutionMinistersAbortionOne TimeProhibitionFundamentalistHampshireNew HampshireAgainst AbortionAffable Author:Mike Huckabee
“I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person, but he is the one who helps me and guide me. So I'm talking to the spirit world all the time.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonsHelpingSpiritNamesTalkingCrazyGuidesHelp MeGrayEaglesGuide MeSpirit WorldCrazy Person Author:Rosemary Altea
“The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.” PeopleThinkingShouldWorkTalkingBalanceOppositesPhrasesWork Life BalanceLife Balance Author:Patrick Dixon