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“We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.”

Thinking Looks Kind May Ideas Self Term Justice Chance Interesting Rights Equal Advantage Very Interesting Being Equal

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.”

People Thinking Feels Self Term Justice Love Is West Misunderstood

Author:Bell Hooks

“In terms of success and drive, I think some people are born with it, sometimes certain circumstances push you towards success... trying to prove people wrong. I'm not exactly sure where mine comes from, but, I have this thing inside of me that, when someone tells me that I can't do something, I become obsessed with proving them wrong. It's a weird thing.”

People Thinking Trying I Can Sometimes Certain Term Born Mines Circumstances Prove Obsessed Weird Things Towards Success

Author:Tyra Banks

“In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.”

Thinking Important Done Kids America Law Sides Term Cutting Excited Not Sure Bullying Strict Both Sides Bully Bullied Being Done

Author:Tyra Banks

“Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.”

People Thinking War Difficult Term Aspect Financial Iraq Probability Iraq War

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Long Goal Term Long Term Korea North Korea Unified

Author:Marco Rubio

“In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.”

People Thinking Ideas States Earth Term Broken Offers Forgotten Meaningful Contact Motive Consumerism Helpless Dependence Overconsumption

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“I think the biggest faults that bands tend to have in terms of drama or breaking up is bands don't learn people's personalities. When you spend as much time with people obviously it's going to rub off, and you are going to get to know the way people are. You can make sure day to day people are accommodated to and people feel positive about the experience, then you can stay together as a band, at least that is my opinion.”

People Thinking Knows Way Feels Together Term Opinion Personality Drama Band Faults Day To Day

Author:Andy Biersack

“To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.”

Thinking Term Metaphysics Grounded

Book:On Time and Being

Source: On Time and Being

“I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.”

Thinking Wells Kind Book Different Next Grows Term Challenges Novel Style Scales Fortunate Tone Different Styles

Author:Joe Meno

“I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.”

Thinking Way Long Stories Kids Term Roles Growing Up Growing Trouble Dad Models Males Role Models Providing Mentor Long Way Think Positive Kids Growing Up Male Role Models

Author:Donald Miller

“A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.”

Thinking Self Dream Term Party Democracy Democrat Selfless

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Hard Done Film Term Stage Scripts Executives Conventional

Author:George Lucas

“You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Kind Has Beens Term Behinds Audience Theory Performances Theater Moved Valuable Storytelling Instant Feedback Live Performance Live Theater

Author:George Lucas

“Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.”

Thinking Trying Looks Sometimes Dream Opportunity Term Teach Focus Influence Achieve Our Dreams

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.”

Thinking Self Might Given Term Higher Standards Defined Attainment Success And Failure Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.”

People Thinking World Years Past Film Term Setback

Author:Catherine Corsini

“I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Sometimes Character Actors Understanding Term Trouble Skills Pages Preparation

Author:William H. Macy

“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.”

“I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.”

People Thinking Writing Suffering Term Beats Crap

Author:Jules Feiffer

“I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.”

Thinking Bigs Term Technology Entertainment My Time

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.”

Thinking Way Stills Book Term Materials Computer Property Proportion Length

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.”

Thinking World Order Term Struggle Conflict Universal Inevitable Anarchy Conferences World Order Disarmament Focal Point Armed Conflict

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.”

Thinking Term Interesting Comedy Effects Stand Up Comedy Linkages

Author:Mark Leyner

“I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before I identified as a feminist myself, I thought of feminism as more of a historical term describing the women's movement in the '70s but didn't know much about what they had done and didn't think it applied to my life at all.”

Thinking Knows Believe Done Values I Believe Term Heard Feminism Movement Mom Historical Raised Feminist My Mom Describing

Author:Julie Zeilinger

“There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.”

Thinking Want Feels Trying Persons Goal Term Practice Get Up Motivated Short Term Goal Oriented Short Term Goals

Author:Dara Torres

“Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified.”

Thinking Mean Humor Funny Jesus Term Smarter

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.”

Thinking Long Real Values Term Fronts Long Term Time To Think

Author:Sam Altman

“Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.”

Ifs Thinking Long Term Huge Advantage Long Term

Author:Sam Altman

“I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'”

Thinking Mind Kind Two Ideas Different Reason Facts Able Term Lines Negative Capability Dichotomy Different Ideas

Author:Anne Waldman

“I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.”

Thinking Way Book Able Term Vision Radical Poetic Tape Documentation

Author:Anne Waldman

“I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Stills Would Be Process Term Creativity Reflection Divorce Engaged Something New

Author:Antony Hegarty

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.”

Thinking Should Trying Term Failing Poet Taste Diversity Projects Appreciate Cooking Wide Mediums Allowance

Author:James Arthur

“What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.”

Thinking Together Political Politics Individual Term Team Dangerous Members Mentality Mindless Partisanship Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".”

Thinking Way Want Kind Has Beens Running Able Guy Evil Term Business Company Couple Degrees Approach Ideals Program Notion Very Good Employee Founders Google Good Work Workplace

Author:Joel Bakan

“I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.”

Thinking Wells Term Millions Successful Admire Plenty Giants Being Successful Sincerely Blockbuster

Author:James Ponsoldt

“Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.”

Thinking Shows Term Months Yeah Muppet Muppet Show

Author:Jim Henson

“In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Shows Courses Term Interesting Wonderful Happenings Instruments Series Speed Muscles Show Me Really Interesting Cds Djs Pads Turntables

Author:Brian Eno

“I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.”

Thinking I Can Hard Term Pleasure Listening Instinct Hearing Hard Times Listeners Just Listen Utilitarian Hearing Music

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.”

Thinking Play Term Careers Calling Musical Suits Astronaut Accordions

Author:Daniel Handler

“I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .”

Thinking Character Term Written Morality Main Characters

Author:Tao Lin

“I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.”

Thinking Knows Said Character Term Written Amount Empathy Not Sure

Author:Tao Lin

“When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."”

Thinking Writing Littles Ideas Play Light Term Interesting Down And Musical Spots Mathematical Tunes Composition Improvisation Pianist Musical Composition

Author:Aaron Zigman

“I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.”

Thinking Men Values Term Practice Changed Football Management Method Bills Strive Great Men Bob Paisley

Author:Brendan Rodgers

“I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.”

Thinking Doe Term Careers Roles Planning

Author:Kristen Stewart

“In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.”

Thinking Important Political Grows Term Direct Okay Philosophical Plant Statements Subtle

Author:Serj Tankian

“What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Problem Term Decision Results Terrible Thirds Combination Clock Defining Wellbeing Burn Out Metrics Money And Power

Author:Arianna Huffington

“It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.”

People Ifs Thinking Stars Term Rocks Call Me Rock Star Chameleon

Author:Meat Loaf

“Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.”

Thinking Long Important Three Term Taken Months Important Things Long Term Things In Life Cant Marketplace Three Months

Author:Susan George

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