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“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.”

Thinking Kind Term Wonderful Cold Disease Normal Incredibles Cancer Cells Wonderful Things Reminders Duality

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.”

Thinking Giving Term Moral Aspect Catholic Fundamentals Raised Glad Code Grounding Moral Code

Author:Frances O'Connor

“I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.”

People Thinking I Can Process Term Records Unhappy Jaded

Author:Will Oldham

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.”

Thinking Together Term Groups Banding Together

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

Thinking Needs Term Industry Safe Capacity Resilience Our Family Rely Inner Strength Occupation Immune Rely Upon Resourcefulness

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

Thinking Hard Feelings Term Strange Scene Happenings Strange Places

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Important Real Facts Political Term Information Communicate Hungry Dialogue Discussion Rhetoric Proposal Political Rhetoric

Author:John Podesta

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”

Thinking Doe Term Religious Century Hypocrisy Victorian Slang Puritanism

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.”

Thinking World Wells Done Use Term Community Building Products Involved Skills Creating Good Things Connected Building A Business

Author:Jeff Raikes

“Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.”

People Thinking Want Real Guy Term Views Harder Impression Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Do The Best Presenting Caricatures Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Stephen Root

“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.”

People Thinking Knows Kind May Happens Causes Term Environmental Factors Nervous Agents Damage Chemicals Pentagon Environmental Factors

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.”

Thinking Knows Long Jobs Term Deals Company Stage Republican Size Profit Currents Teeth Cash Venture Short Term Romney Staples

Author:David Stockman

“I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.”

Thinking Kind Home Fall Term Wander Alternatives Cracks Mainstream Floating

Author:K. D. Lang

“However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.”

Thinking Sound Term Environment Effects Sound Effects

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.”

Thinking Kind Different Beautiful Term Accepting Novel Ideals Patient

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.”

People Thinking Way Term Break Pulling Modelling Taking A Break Pulling Away

Author:Gemma Ward

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.”

Thinking World Long Term Quality Effects Screens Video Superiors Cinema Sensitive Long Term

Author:Ann Macbeth

“I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.”

People Thinking Should Ideas Wish Term Feminism Concepts Embrace Scary Evolve Umbrella Conflicting Ideas

Author:Merritt Wever

“They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?”

Thinking Believe Christian Heaven Term Elites Christian Right

Author:Jon Stewart

“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

People Thinking Years Long Made Bigs Lasts Term Interesting Mistake Company Too Much Bases Excited Long Term Native Big Things Mobile Introspective Apps Betting Biggest Mistake Androids Ios

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.”

Thinking Two Reality Term Christ Natural Failing Concepts Opposites Ultimate Originals Sacred Unity Rational Realms Static Profane

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.”

Thinking World Years Problem America Speak Term Middle Century East Middle East Asia Short Term

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”

Thinking World Want Wells Kind Age Certain Term Millions Fantasy Magic Television Realism Expanding Hammered Magic Realism

Author:Terry Gilliam

“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.”

Thinking Trying Reality Film Form Term One Thing Achieve Creation Designer

Author:Ken Adam

“I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Stories Use Term Perfect Depends Scripts Definitions Time Travel

Author:Rian Johnson

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Different Use Term Accepting Style Involved Band Following Brands Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

“It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.”

Thinking Should Wells Hard Fighting Term Enemy Military Destruction Killing Strategist

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.”

“I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.”

Thinking Inspirational Term Curious Empowering Requirements Funny Inspirational Gracious Being A Woman

Author:Jenna Lyons

“To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.”

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.”

Thinking Action Energy Term Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.”

Thinking Causes Term Highest Enlightenment My Favorite Karma Yield Rama Best Place

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.”

Ifs Thinking Long Ideas Wanted Term Havens Safe Gun Barriers Target Als Software Afghanistan Pakistan Pledge Allegiance Entry Al Qaeda Linux Safe Haven Operating Systems

Author:Paul Gigot

“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.”

People Thinking Has Beens Matter Done Jobs President Term Numbers Clear Streets Wall Type Areas Concerned Financial Barack Alternatives Good Job Reliance Romney Reelection

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.”

Thinking Choices Term My Own Finding Happiness Daily Choices

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.”

Thinking Way Book Film Term Projects Photographer Narrative Filmmaker

Author:Alec Soth

“Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.”

Thinking Should Long Growth Term Strategy Debt Long Term Packages Short Term Reduction

Author:William J. Clinton

“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.”

Thinking Want Giving Humans Facts Might Term Technology Proud Weapons Picks Invention Human Life Items Dove Science And Technology Emblems

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

People Thinking Way Should Term Accepting Creativity Tradition Originality Apology Conventional Spectacular Creative Thinking Accept Me Conventional Ways

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.”

Ifs Thinking Term Views Circumstances Lucky Luck Rewards Point Of View Fortunate Explanation Sufficient Customs Unfortunate Unlucky Unfortunate Circumstances

Book:Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

Source: Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.”

People Thinking Has Beens Ideas Used Process Term Simple Obvious Logical Conventional Vertical Lateral Thinking Simple Ideas

Author:Edward de Bono

“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”

Thinking Littles Moments Would Be Bits Term Lines Simple Saws Example Little Bit Draws Drawing Where You Are Tense Concentrating Ipads Limiting Yourself

Author:David Hockney

“The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.”

Thinking Humans Term Errors Misled Thinking Of Him

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.”

People Thinking States Term Economy Effects Flow Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

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