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“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 live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.”

Thinking Kind Path Havens Unique Online Mobile Verbs Life Path

Author:Mark Pincus

“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.”

People Thinking Want Jobs Given Company Comfort Prove Built Tasks Majority Structure Minorities

Author:Mark Pincus

“The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.”

Thinking World Ideas Positive Thinking Power Of Thought

Book:My method, including American impressions

Source: My method, including American impressions

“When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.”

Thinking Children Dream Would Be Remember Goal Achieve Football Proud One Day Unbelievable Stadiums Footballer Milan

Author:Andriy Shevchenko

“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Games Winning Stuff Loses Focus Football Focused Consistent American Football Winning Games

Author:Mike Singletary

“I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.”

Thinking World I Can Pride Higher Corruption Legislature

Author:Mark Twain

“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

Thinking Way Giving Looks Book Matter Hard Done Whole Hours Walks Rooms Behinds Week Keys Personality Pages Whole Life Gray Traits Sister

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.”

Thinking Mind Might Lost Pay Insanity More Time Buddy Lost My Mind

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.”

People Thinking Crazy Demand Insanity

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.”

Thinking Insanity Dirt

Author:Lou Reed

“Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.”

Thinking Welcome Insanity Nightmare

Author:Alice Cooper

“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.”

Thinking Years Art Ability Five Fields Make Sense Martial Arts

Author:Jet Li

“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”

People Thinking Has Beens Might Young Careers Crisis Ambitious Hung Might Have Been Premature Misplaced Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.”

Thinking Writing Reader Metaphor Editors

Author:Steven Pressfield

“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

Thinking Humans Nature Space Quality Critical Saving Welfare Quality Of Life Wildlife Open Spaces Wildlife Conservation Animal Conservation

Author:Jim Fowler

“Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.”

Thinking Knows Way Education Enlightenment Up To You

Author:Van Morrison

“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.”

Ifs Thinking Animal Talking Plant Environmental Saving Translate Plants And Animals

Author:Jim Fowler

“He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.”

Thinking Education Class Teacher Legs Staring

Author:Alice Cooper

“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”

Thinking Hard Education Protect Threat Noble Abstract Neglect Deceived

Author:Bob Dylan

“You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.”

Thinking Knows Way Speak Education Teach Our Words

Author:DMX

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Thinking Mind Country Truth Reading Materials Citizens Fellows

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.”

Thinking Whole Culture Terrible Marketing Genre Division

Author:Tom Waits

“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.”

“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.”

Thinking Knows May Running Political Father Names President Middle Barack Krypton

Author:Barack Obama

“One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.”

Thinking Should Mean Enough Religion Opinion Path Infinite Sincere Yearning Right Path False Gods

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you.”

People Thinking Way Feels Wells Looks Lying Jesus Secret Known Awareness Keys Enlightenment Determined About Yourself

Author:Gary Renard

“You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people.”

People Thinking Whole Body Spirit Perfect Awareness Careful Divided Be Careful

Author:Gary Renard

“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind Book Running Jobs Certain Stuff Changed Prove Evidence Decided Logic Math Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Buddy Ontology Sloppy You Changed

Author:David Auburn

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.”

Thinking God Cities Company Known Easier Harmony Seekers Dwellers Truth Seekers

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."”

Thinking Years I Can God Remember Bed Sitting Years Ago

Author:M. Scott Peck

“I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.”

Thinking Mean Made God Islam Assumption Submission

Author:Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

“I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about many times are right out of the Bible.”

Thinking God Use Principles Drs Dr Phil

Author:Joel Osteen

“And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches and we have seen a lot of healing take place in families.”

Thinking God Used Church Healing

Author:Kerry Shook

“I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.”

Thinking Ideas Funny Successful Thoughtful Blogging Bloggers

Author:Jeremy Schoemaker

“The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.”

Thinking Should Persons Funny Higher Skins Opposites Thoughtful Hypocrisy Blogging

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Should School Funny Special Students Seeking Educational Credit Extras Thoughtful Blogs Blogging Bloggers Special Times

Author:Cory Doctorow

“Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.”

Thinking Funny Three Sports Events Tvs Approach Thirds Hot Including Radio Traditional Journalism Engaged Thoughtful Exception Looking Back Foxes Blogging Broadcasting Talk Radio Npr

Author:David "Doc" Searls

“Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different types of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in George Bush.”

People Thinking Believe Littles Said Different Helping Politics I Believe Type Walking Let Me I Believe In Stores Little Things Impressed Santa Novelty Santa Claus Dressed Up Believe In Santa

Author:Dan Quayle

“If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Wells Stills Politics Growth News Recessions Upbeat

Author:Dan Quayle

“I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.”

Thinking Children Real Would Be Politics Successful Position Exception

Author:Dan Quayle

“Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!”

Thinking Littles Ends Politics Bits Little Bit Add Potatoes Alright

Author:Dan Quayle

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Stills I Can Stories Lasts Courses Lines Honest Possibility Finished Rewriting Foolproof

Author:Amy Hempel

“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Hours Four Nice Plans Middle Findings Checks These Days Things To Do Look Up Finding Yourself Pens Wet Marvelous Notebook Auctions Ebay Marvelous Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

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