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“I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Certain Force Process Cities Accepting Our Lives Ten Draws Chaos Can't Change Randomness Weighing Unpredictability

Author:Frank Gehry

“I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.”

Thinking Way Long Stories Minutes Ten Bills Hindsight Monologues Yarn Long Story Personal Stories

Author:Ed Helms

“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.”

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.”

Thinking Millions Ten

Author:Mark Patterson

“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms”

“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.”

Thinking Loss Decision Situation Seeing Minutes Exercise Ten Intellectual Gains Rational Bridges Being The Best Calculations Ratios Weighing New Situations

Author:Warren Buffett

“I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”

“A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Opportunity Wish Pride Ten Hearing Ashamed

Book:Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England

Source: Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England

“When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Hard Next Interest Laughing Minutes Subjects Ten Jokes Twenties Catholicism

Author:George Meyer

“85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?”

Thinking Names Modern Right Now Ten Hot Damn Things To Do Smoking Coincidence Looking Good One Woman Damn Things Modern Music

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."”

Thinking Want Writing Years Book Next Honest Mines Keys Ten Tired Agents Flats Trust Me

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.”

Thinking Needs Kind School Guy Stuff Half Opinion Laughing Minutes Information Ten Percent High School Access Bars Dumb Idiot Make Sense Loud Realising Dumb Guy Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Burr

“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.”

Thinking Firsts Book Humor Funny Brain Doors Drug Thousand Ten Perception Critics Melting Huxley Doors Of Perception

Author:Bill Bailey

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.”

Thinking Way Years Names Journey Honest Ten Decided Being Honest Very Cool

Author:Alvin Lee

“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”

Thinking Needs Feels Art Running Grows Water Media Ten Skills Perception Messages Mass Opposites Seconds Hook Make You Think Iconic Mass Media Sensational Vases Doggedness

Author:Robert Hughes

“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.”

Thinking Hard Evil Blood Worst Produce Masters Thousand Ten Weakness Vices Tyranny Cruelty Chains Luxury Sensual Tyrants Apathy Harsh Wickedness Energetic Despotism Sloth Negligence

Author:Lord Byron

“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.”

“I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.”

People Thinking Years Littles Hard Acting Ten Ego Teenager Eighteen Eighteen Years Old

Author:Laura Benanti

“I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Two Reason Whole Song Ten Computer Twelve Listeners Pulling Ipods

Author:David Byrne

“"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.”

Thinking Years Book Whole Character Lasts Three Changed Months Needed Ten Significant Last Year Diagnosis Three Months Wholesale Small Changes

Author:Alan Lightman

“It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."”

People Thinking Knows Said Whole Shows Novel Imagine Events Ten Series Usa Finite Adaptation Nominations Emmys

Author:Debra Messing

“I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.”

Thinking Knows Years Has Beens Lasts Culture Growing Ten Hollywood Obsession Glamour Celebrity Culture Celebrity Life

Author:Debra Messing

“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”

People Thinking Made Dies Ten Percent Eighty

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Way Girl Bed Ten My Way Girlfriend Way Of Thinking

Author:Yoko Ono

“So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.”

People Thinking Different Country America Three Nations Term Rights Ten Roots Property Atheist Commandments Pledge Ten Commandments Different Countries One Nation Under God

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.”

Thinking Years Two Moving Courses Left Four Trouble Politician Ten Six Climate Response Climate Change Starting Disappear Native Cycles Bees Organisms

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.”

Thinking I Can Reason Boys Ten Letting Go Dimes Never Let Go

Author:Mr. Krabs

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.”

“Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.”

People Thinking Art Creative Ten Percent Areas Originals Following Copying

Author:Hugh Hopper

“We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.”

People Thinking Knows Should Lasts Political Honest Ten Tough Logic Crisis Determined Campaigns Being Honest Greek Necks Sincere

Author:Dora Bakoyannis

“I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.”

Ifs Thinking Seems Suffering Enjoy Ten Indulge Repression

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I feel bad [about Lil Wayne going to jail], because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.”

Thinking Feels Real Names Stars Levels Nice Happened Right Now Ten Conversation Army Pops Jail Rapper Wayne Pop Stars Keeping It Real Nice Time

Author:Bun B

“I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.”

People Thinking Years Kind Bigs Hurt Enemy Ten Years Ago Convenience Good Food Switching Processed Food Bad Food

Author:Mark Bittman

“I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.”

Thinking Philosophy Certain Sports Ten Safe Absolutes Greek Yards Antidote

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Use Three Hours Sleep Five Nice Ten Balls Wake Up Really Nice Up Early Prioritize Nice Day

Author:James Ponsoldt

“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Shows Problem Running Process Interesting Situation Issues Focus Cutting Seeing Ten Stuck Versions Fixing

Author:Bryan Burk

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”

“Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.”

Thinking Knows Doe Has Beens Chance Ready Ten Judgment Percent Likes Senators Ninety Not Ready Mccain

Author:Barack Obama

“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.”

Thinking Should Years Littles Sometimes Done Moments Wish Grows Bits Five One Day Ten Little Bit Let Me Evolve Live In The Moment

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!”

Thinking Years Long Five Minutes Fashion Ten Clothes Long Time Daughter Closets Five Minutes Vintage Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Tom Ford

“To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.”

“I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.”

People Thinking Years Looks I Can Internet Ten Fifteen Gum Fifteen Years Chewing Chewing Gum

Author:Warren Buffett

“The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's supposed to be a national holiday. You walk around thinking that people are supposed to be nice to you, like maybe on your birthday you're ten times more breakable than on any other day. Well, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Littles Whole School Walks Class Nice Mom Ten Supposed To Be Holiday Being Nice Eleven Your Mom Weird Things Cupcakes School Days

Book:Jack

Source: Jack

“I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.”

Thinking Mean Hard Enough Minutes Like You Ten

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.”

Thinking Want Trying Years Wells Home Kids Wanted Used Certain Bits Sound Behinds Ten Window Sells Curtains Pizza Ambience

Author:Robert Plant

“I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.”

Thinking Firsts Ten Sells Rate Comparison Bottles Folds Undervalued Burgundy

Author:Joe Bastianich

“Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.”

Thinking Years Today Mets Ten Years Ago

Author:Joan Rivers

“I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.”

Thinking Made Ends Character Special Color Ten Originals Lists Copies Presenting Something Special Bryan

Author:Johnny Simmons

“I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Persons Reason Philosophy Facts Jobs Rooms Know How Failing Succeed Ten Lows Not Sure Lunacy High Points Low Points

Author:Judd Nelson

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