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“During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.”

“The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?”

“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!”

People Thinking Use Today Term African American Dislike African American Women

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.”

People Thinking Character Found Difficult Term Audience Producers Cheer Think Of Me

Author:Shelley Long

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”

Thinking Life Made Said Energy Term Definitions Come Up Missions Copies Mars Carbon Compounds Molecules Vikings Replicate Metabolism Replication Definition Of Life

Author:Cyril Ponnamperuma

“I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Use Reality Politics Term Community Watches Speech Constitution Ideology Free Speech Free Market

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.”

Thinking Term Speech Models Thoughtful Categories Framework Intentionality

Author:Wilfrid Sellars

“The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Together Moving Term Talking Rights Design Stones Aim Foundation Human Rights Drawing Boards Engineering Inches Phases

Author:Mary Robinson

“Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”

People Thinking Different Joy Term Theory Evolution Claims Categories Like Love Theory Of Evolution

Author:Stephen Hawking

“My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they're getting. I think it's more fun to watch something when you're discovering it as you go along.”

Thinking Littles Whole Stories Shows Able Film Fun Term Watches Audience Narrative Discovering Episodes Anthology Short Films

Author:Louis C. K.

“My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't like extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.”

Thinking Bigs Parent Voice Term My Own Mom Let Me My Mom Testament Opinionated

Author:Mandy Moore

“I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling.”

People Ifs Thinking Values Choices Three Term Challenges Scripts Storytelling Unexpected

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.”

Thinking Giving Term Needed Presidential Ran Oxygen

Author:Oliver Stone

“Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.”

Thinking Term Water Race Principles Practice Residents Fiji

Author:A. D. Patel

“Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.”

Thinking World Children Parent Term Focus

Author:Joanne Harris

“Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.”

Thinking World Long Self Might Action Spiritual Lying Term Results Truth Is Selfish Selflessness Our Actions Being Selfish Egocentric Spiritual Truth Positive Results

Author:Tarthang Tulku

“The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.”

Thinking Humans Use Values Term Moral Morality Universal Landscape Framework Human Values

Author:Sam Harris

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.”

Thinking Doe Term Ass Irony Gentleman Blank Vulgar Rudeness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Book Term Reader Draws Spread Boards Squares

Author:Margaret Atwood

“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.”

Thinking Way Problem Reality Term Attitude Optimism Calm Lips Pessimism Pessimistic Serene Bodhisattva

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I never say "nagging". I think that "nagging" is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.”

Thinking Men Mean Success Faith Term Relationship Asking Get Away Traps Pipe Harvey Nagging

Author:Steve Harvey

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.”

Thinking Knows World Children Hard Three Easy Term Fashion Method Folks Work Out Suits

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off.”

Thinking Want Term Plausible

Author:Michael Neill

“I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.”

Thinking World Believe Guy Term Stupid Don't Believe

Author:Warren Buffett

“The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.”

“Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.”

People Thinking Belief Speak Term Prejudice Dogma Pious Platitudes

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.”

Thinking Men Needs Philosophy Age Difficult Goal Term Ability Absence Vanity Aspiration Denied Academic Malady Irreligion Wrong Thinking

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati

“If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.”

Ifs Thinking Term Laughing Media Creation Conversation Harder Relate Versus Dehumanization Bombarded Bombarded By

Author:Jehane Noujaim

“I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.”

“I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that no one group can be freed until all groups are freed.”

Thinking Enough Term Struggle Groups Feminism Notion Committed Liberation Solidarity

Author:Sally Potter

“I would say that I'm a really eclectic music lover, so I love the fact that one month I will be doing one kind of music and the next month I will be doing something very different and I think that really works for me in terms of my own personal tastes and styles.”

Thinking Kind Different Facts Next Term My Own Style Months Lovers Taste Eclectic Music Lover Personal Taste

Author:Christopher Lennertz

“I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world.”

People Thinking World Giving Self Term Teach Self Esteem Industry Stones Who You Are Self Worth Esteem Viewpoints Stepping Stones Philanthropic Pads Launching Pageant Beauty Industry

Author:Kenya Moore

“I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.”

Thinking World Needs Believe Humans Two Stories Might I Believe Term Answers Novel Written Essentials Absolutes Stranger Disappear Intimacy Places In The World Human Needs

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Book Reading Term News Latin Good Work Latin America Jennifer American Writer Latin American

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.”

Thinking Stories Film Guy Term Storytelling Filmmaker Great Film

Author:Michael Giacchino

“I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.”

Thinking Term Criticism Cute Unjustified

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.”

People Thinking Looks Light Today Term Too Much Revolution Industry Posts Transition Hunting Agriculture Gathering Epoch

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.”

Thinking Looks States Term Revolution Victim Unions Russia Prisoner Transition Soviet Soviet Union Epoch Dissolution

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.”

Thinking Kind Term Huge Philosophical Extraordinary Take Time It Takes Time Time For A Change Huge Changes Philosophical Thinking

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.”

Thinking Writing Done Feelings School Remember Three Term Paper Pages Tasks Accomplishment Term Paper

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.”

Thinking Term Female Excellence Males Gender Behave

Author:May-Britt Moser

“The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.”

Thinking Term Imagine Movement Listening Areas Active Listening To Music Motor

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where people write books and they come and I name their books for them. I'm good with titles.”

People Thinking Writing Book Names Term Titles Fortunate Workshops

Author:Larry Winget

“I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.”

Thinking Way Mean Term Ability Civilization Capacity My Way Bridges Way Of Thinking Advanced Civilization

Author:George Carlin

“We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive.”

Thinking World Way Needs Different Problem Energy Process Term Higher Lows Different Ways

Author:Wayne Dyer

“People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.”

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