“I kind of play like a guy. I don't hold grudges. I don't get dramatic with things. If somebody slide tackles me in training and we leave the field, I'm still talking to them. I think that there's very few of us out there that can just take confrontation, and if you've got an issue with something, you can go to that person and say it.” IfsThinkingKindPersonsStillsPlayGuyTalkingIssuesFieldsTrainingDramaticSlidesConfrontationGrudge Author:Carli Lloyd
“You can refer to god and you are really just talking about nature. If you are going to say the universe is god, then everything is god, everything is religion. But when we explore traditional religion we are talking about humanistic gods people pray to, that they think can intervene in our lives, who run sort of a heaven-and-hell operation for the afterworld.” PeopleIfsThinkingRunningUniverseHeavenTalkingHellPrayingTraditionalOperationsHeaven And HellHumanistic Author:Bill Maher
“I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.” ThinkingChildrenTalkingPotNot TalkingJuliaRacks Author:Michael Pollan
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].” ThinkingActionPoliticalOpportunityLeftProcessBehindsTalkingKeysHopefulBeing RealRhetoricLeft Behind Author:John Kasich
“I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.” ThinkingEasyInterestTalkingMediaCynicalTraps Author:Stephen Colbert
“... I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingLooksBehindsTalkingWatchesDeterminationMy TimeGesturesInsultingRushingGaugesWorth Your Time Author:Frances Hesselbein
“Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.” PeopleThinkingMenWayGivingHas BeensDifferentPlayOrderGamesTermLeadershipTalkingOfficeTrendsCooperationEducateFactionsLead In Author:Muriel Fox
“I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.” ThinkingBelieveChildrenReasonTalkingSantaNot Talking Author:Elizabeth Berg
“I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.” PeopleThinkingMenSportsActingTalkingVisionFiguresPoliticianMusicianAdmireInfluentialNot Talking Author:Benicio Del Toro
“I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.” PeopleThinkingTalking Author:Ben Whishaw
“I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.” ThinkingFirstsNextTalkingNew YorkCoupleSittingFirst TimeTeaShopsRealisedAbbey Author:Michelle Dockery
“Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.” PeopleThinkingWellsTalkingAncestorCharleston Book:Three O'Clock Dinner Source: Three O'Clock Dinner
“I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.” ThinkingKindJobsProcessActingTalkingHelpful Author:Lennie James
“I think when you commit to somebody, and you take them off the market, right, I think it is your job as a woman or as a man to ... I don't think you should ever say no. I'm talking about if you're tired or somebody's like 'I'm tired.' No, because at the end of the day you took that person off of the market. They can't go and be with someone else because they're with you. So, don't you ever say no.” IfsThinkingMenShouldPersonsEndsJobsTalkingTiredCommitThe End Of The DayI'm Tired Author:Sevyn Streeter
“Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsTalkingListeningGoes OnSellsRadioDrivingServingBrutalControversyBostonJerkSponsorsTalk Radio Author:Tom Heinsohn
“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.” ThinkingWantShouldRealLastsCultureTalkingForeverMy FamilyShould HaveAppreciationChicagoGrandpa Author:Patrick Stump
“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsStillsSometimesThreeTalkingWorstHabitRight NowBasketballSittingTunesRudeSitting Still Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.” ThinkingCharacterKidsTalkingSituationMagicFantasticGiantsExposedImaginative Author:Stan Lee
“I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenYearsLooksGuyGirlMistakeTalkingOkayAverageBarsChiefsIdiotOld ManHandsomeEmperorDetroitPretty GirlSuccessors Author:Emo Philips
“I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we want to know what it's about,' it just proves one thing: If you're president long enough, you will one day say something that is true.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantLongSaidEnoughPresidentImaginationTalkingOne ThingOne DayProveAls Author:Bill Maher
“I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"” ThinkingWantMindI CanTodayTalkingConvincedHanging Out Author:Steve Zahn
“What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.” ThinkingHappensOpportunityPrayerTalkingListeningContemplationCatholicismMysticalStrainRelationship With GodListening To God Author:Kevin Hart
“I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.” PeopleIfsThinkingLongStatesShowsJesusViewsTalkingSixComfortableTownsHearingPoint Of ViewLaughedMessiah Author:John Dominic Crossan
“I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.” IfsThinkingWantStillsBodyWantedFilmTurnsSoundGoalSpaceTalkingWatchesComedyBrotherRaisedCinemaVisualsCompositionCartoonChuckAlways ThinkingFramingOrchestrationWarner Brothers Author:Alexander Payne
“I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldImportantTalkingPositionWallStandingStoresGroceriesGrocery StoresChecking OutWalls Up Author:Dave Matthews
“There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.” ThinkingBelieveImportantEndsWholeChristianIndividualChristTalkingGroups Author:Lewis Black
“To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelievePersonsRealAsksBeliefTalkingOpinionParticularAgreeAssuming Author:Tyler Cowen
“Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he lied to Congress last week. He's saying it was just the liquor talking.” ThinkingLastsTalkingWeekCongressFormerCeoLiedBotheredLiquorSwearingEnronHe Lied Author:Jay Leno
“Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think cant be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.” ThinkingIdeasRealRunningAmericaPoliticalFunTalkingBeatsMeetingsFolksPrivilegeCampaignsOpponentsGoing OutCantUnderdogInsurgentPolitical Campaign Author:Michael Baumgartner
“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSchoolChristianGuyHateFallReadingTalkingStudyHappenedSeriousHigh SchoolDatingI HateFalling In LoveCommittedNineStealingHeyOverwhelmedThis GuyBible StudyFourteenNine YearsNashvilleFreshmanHey YouOlder SisterMimiCutest Author:Amy Grant
“I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.” ThinkingWholeProcessTalkingCreativeCreative ProcessTalking About Money Author:Nicola Formichetti
“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.” ThinkingIdeasBigsTalkingBandSittingNo IdeaCandleVansLightingSitting AroundSynergyVan HalenGnarlyScumbags Author:Taylor Hawkins
“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.” ThinkingTwoEnoughWholeMomentsHandsEyeTogetherMemoriesNumbersHalfTalkingKnowingFourImagineWonderfulEightThat MomentPlusMarvelousRest Of Your LifeIncompleteHolding HandsHand Holding Author:Alastair Reynolds
“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.” ThinkingLanguageMemoriesAnimalTalkingBehaviorSmellCategoriesAutismSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.” ThinkingWayWellsHardThreeSportsResultsDealsTalkingWrittenAchieveTrainingPressureMy WayOlympicsToilThree Times Author:Vijender Singh
“The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.” ThinkingShouldLittlesMomentsJusticeTalkingDeserveMercyBellsAlarmsNot Talking Author:R. C. Sproul
“People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldSelfSeemsTalkingMagazinesEvidentPublicity Author:Rachel Johnson
“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.” ThinkingLittlesBigsMightMotherDiesParentSoundTalkingDiedStartingAlbumsRevelationsShockMortalityMother Died Author:Donald Fagen
“If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'” IfsThinkingLooksPersonsMightCareGirlLosesTalkingBoysWeightTake CareLose WeightTake Care Of Yourself Author:Shindong
“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksI CanEndsDoneHappensMy OwnAbilityTalkingLaughingFivePlayerCupsLeagueFive YearsTrust MeWorld CupPremier LeagueStrikers Author:Nicklas Bendtner
“If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingLongNamesTalking Author:Katie Aselton
“And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.” PeopleThinkingMenCountryEnoughUseCultureSpeakTalkingAtheismModernDangerEvolutionEarsAncientPositive AtheismIgnorantLegendsGenesisSpeaks OutGreat CountryCanonModern Culture Author:Luther Burbank
“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanFatherHoursTalkingSonCitizensOne DayHusbandMusicianVotePlaying MusicWriting Music Author:Herbie Hancock
“You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.” PeopleThinkingKidsNightGrowsTalkingGrowing UpPlanetsTvsLateJokesHearingSarcasmExpensesNegativityNastyMonologuesLate NightPeople Talking Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsIdeasStuffSidesTalkingCostSmartCriticalGet BetterSmarterUnemployedNot TalkingBeing SmartAccessibilityWeighingExecuting Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.” ThinkingWayShouldPersonsArtTalkingTechnologyListeningSittingUnderestimated Author:Garrison Keillor
“I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTalkingSay AnythingFaking It Author:Chris Hardwick
“Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?” ThinkingLoveWritingTalkingLovers Author:Mason Cooley
“You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTalkingTelevisionTerribleTerrible Things Author:David Attenborough