“I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.” ThinkingMen Author:Lucas Till
“Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensForceParticularCarefulIranAlsAlliesRegimesSyriaAttackingAssadHezbollahBashar Al Assad Author:David Ignatius
“I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.” ThinkingLittlesWould BeShotsArgument Author:Jedediah Bila
“One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.” ThinkingCapacityContactFrighteningBack In TimeGo Back In Time Author:Laura Poitras
“If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.” IfsThinkingMadeLyingVictimInnocentTelling The TruthInnocent Victims Author:Jim Lehrer
“For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.” ThinkingMatterMotherCompanyOfficialsPublic HealthPharmaceuticalErosionVaccinationsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Paul A. Offit
“Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.” ThinkingCareKidsAdultsPhysiciansWho CaresVaccinesPediatrician Author:Paul A. Offit
“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.” IfsThinkingMenKindI CanPlayFeelingsWould BeGivenIdentityFootballBedDesperateAmerican Football Author:Keith Millard
“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.” ThinkingDoneTogetherSongNextNamesSixSevenComing OutPrincessDiariesSoundtracksCompilationPrincess Diaries Author:Christy Carlson Romano
“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.” ThinkingKnowsMenKindAbleAmericaFeltPerfectAttentionRecordsMiddleThirdsPaidTownsAimSizeAccessGenreFakeHipsterNashville Author:Jack White
“I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.” ThinkingKindAcceptingMy FavoriteExcitedGenreFavorites ThingsReally HappyNashvilleHub Author:Taylor Swift
“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryRecordsPlayerJazzStudiosBobBlondeNashvilleJazz Records Author:Elvis Costello
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.” IfsThinkingMindKindChildrenIdeasRealSeemsLeftTeachingSpecialTaughtBuiltIndependentImpressionIdiotSuspectsAssociationArtificialComes And GoesReal ThingsEducation SystemSchooledEpistemologyHomeschoolingUnschoolingPedagogySupposition Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensRunningWaterFeetConditionsSolutionsFlowRiversUltimateDeeperWoodsHillsStreamsExcessFloodDrainsSwampsSpongesProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemDams Author:Hal Borland
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsKindIdeasEnoughBigsEarthWaterSpaceConcernRiversThreatDrinkingEnvironmentalRoundsConclusionBotherOver ItLive ByStationsSomewhere ElseHalfwayBlastEcologicalComplacentDrinking WaterPurchasingWatershedsBottled WaterTap WaterGroundwater Author:Sandra Steingraber
“If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.” IfsThinkingKnowsNaturePiecesAsking Author:Karl-Henrik Robert
“We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.” PeopleThinkingGivingMadeStillsUseChristianCultureWaitingChristianityGroupsModernGeniusMessagesSymbolsWorldviewDilemmaDisadvantages Author:Francis Schaeffer
“In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.” ThinkingFactsKnownSeeingEssentialsInvisibleVisibleLiving ThingsGaudy Author:Georges Rouault
“Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.” ThinkingMenYoungFightingMoneyMillionsDemocracyDiedGravesYoung ManIllegalSlipsSpitSewers Author:Doris "Granny D" Haddock
“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.” ThinkingInspirationalHumansMaySelfHuman BeingsLevelsBuddhismHigherPerceptionCapableJust OneHigher LevelCognizant Author:Frederick Lenz
“Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.” ThinkingInspirationalBuddhismObligationDeceptive Author:Frederick Lenz
“What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.” ThinkingInspirationalLooksHeavenProcessLosesOur LivesBuddhismAbsolutesSakeLosing Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body” ThinkingInspirationalBodyUniverseConditionsBuddhismAll ThingsThink Of You Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.” ThinkingInspirationalSelfHardPainDiesBuddhismHarderHopelessSelf KnowledgeWithout Hope Author:Frederick Lenz
“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.” ThinkingInspirationalCarePracticeBuddhismMindfulnessEnlightenmentIncludingPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.” IfsThinkingWantInspirationalMeanBuddhismHigherPerfectionAspireSlime Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalImportantIdeasMightCareRememberThreeShareBuddhismFairsImportant ThingsNew IdeasObserving Author:Frederick Lenz
“In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.” ThinkingMatterPhilosophyBitsMeditationBuddhismRidiculousFakeDullFadesFade Away Author:Frederick Lenz
“Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.” ThinkingMindUseMeditationBuddhismStrongerMusclesThink Of You Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingFeelsHeartUseMeditationProgressBuddhismTreatsPersonal Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.” ThinkingPerfectConsciousnessPracticeMeditationAwarenessBuddhismHighestAspectFlowOur ThoughtsStoppingInterruptions Author:Frederick Lenz
“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.” PeopleThinkingShouldDiesAttitudeStudyMeditationBuddhismRest Of Your LifeMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.” ThinkingKindRealMeditationHumilityBuddhismDemandLifestylePurity Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualEnergyBuddhismFunny People Author:Frederick Lenz
“Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels of mind, and that happens automatically.” ThinkingMindDifferentHappensLevelsObjectsBuddhismAccessDimensionsDifferent LevelsChakra Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingStatesCertainNamesTermConsciousnessHinduismGoddessStates Of ConsciousnessGods And Goddesses Author:Frederick Lenz
“One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.” ThinkingWorldTryingSoulDecisionPathNiceThis WorldYour SoulHinduismCoinsRebirthCrosswordsFlipping A Coin Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.” ThinkingLooksFactsWeightFatsJeans Author:Bethenny Frankel
“You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.” IfsThinkingPastOrderUniverseToughBillsWarriorEnlightenedHinduismPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Frederick Lenz
“We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!” ThinkingSelfOpportunitySelf RealizationRealizationGasImmortalHinduismImmortal Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.” ThinkingNeedsGivingShouldWritingLittlesDoeMomentsAsksFoundVoiceCan DoNaturalAdviceProveRhythmTinkering Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingDifferentEndsMightAbleYoungTurnsResultsToo MuchOne DayMountainQuittingAdviseParalyzedYoung WritersWrong TurnDrivel Author:Alice Munro
“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWritingMindCharacterAbleDifficultEmotionStepsTeachHabitCircumstancesGiving UpSkinsDeterminedSentencesWhat You WantConventionalParagraphBasicsHabits Of Mind Author:Anne Bernays
“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingHumansPersonsBookRealSelfCharacterCareSoundFictionSituationReaderPaperInstitutionsTiredDon't CareMeaningfulReal LifeSuspenseCodeTensionSelf RespectFascinatingThreateningDollsDilemmaI'm TiredImmoralityVictorianNo RespectBooks And MoviesAmorality Author:Olive Ann Burns
“I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.” ThinkingMenWritingBookYoungTurnsMen And WomenYoung Man Author:Paul Auster
“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.” ThinkingWritingYoungReadingEnjoyOughtAspiring Writers Author:Jeffery Deaver
“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.” ThinkingWritingTryingStuffWorryToo MuchSticksShipsProportionEditorsEnvelopes Author:Garrison Keillor
“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.” ThinkingWritingJobsRealizingRichAgents Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.” ThinkingWritingArtJoy Author:Josh Ritter