“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?” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingStillsI CanStoriesLastsCoursesLinesHonestPossibilityFinishedRewritingFoolproof Author:Amy Hempel
“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.” ThinkingYearsHumansCultureUniverseCoursesHuman BeingsThousandImportanceDenyBillionsFifteenThousand YearsTheologianTheologicalLogical Thinking Author:John Polkinghorne
“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticalCultureCoursesImpossiblePerspectiveLong TimeFascinatedSecularIgnored Author:Tom Perrotta
“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.” IfsThinkingNeedsMindChildrenLittlesMightMotherCoursesHugeBalanceAdvantageTiredLiftingBeing A Mother Author:Melanie Roach
“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.” ThinkingYearsValuesCoursesDifficultQualityStruggleImpossibleJudgingEducational Author:Roy Romer
“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensDoneJobsCoursesEffectsStrangeCapitalistEngineeringEngineers Author:George Saunders
“Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.” ThinkingCoursesDependsProjectsAesthetic Author:Zack Snyder
“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.” PeopleThinkingWantDifferentCoursesHouseGood ThingsSingersConcertsOperaFeesOpera House Author:Bryn Terfel
“I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.” ThinkingChildrenImportantHardCoursesWonderfulService To OthersDisservice Author:Meg Tilly
“Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.” ThinkingWellsCharacterHelpingMightCoursesStudyMaterialsHelpful Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.” ThinkingWantImportantFightingCoursesSituationMy Family Author:Paz Vega
“I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.” ThinkingCoursesFunLaughingPersonalityCourtHaving FunGood Laugh Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMadeSaidRememberFilmSongCoursesLanguagePeriodsUniversalMake You ThinkUniversal Language Author:Scott Weiland
“You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantImportantHardStatesJobsCoursesDealsRaceOne ThingEasierCampaignsDebatePresidentialSenateConsistency Author:Michael Bennet
“I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.” ThinkingHas BeensHardRealityCoursesSidesSpaceAnswersConsciousnessObjectsBuildingScientistPhysicsConsideringTime And SpaceDivorced Author:Robert Lanza
“When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.” ThinkingWritingStillsCoursesEasyCollegeInspired Author:Lisel Mueller
“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsBodyWould BeChoicesCoursesMoralDependsDon't BelieveStanceWomen's Bodies Author:Louise Mensch