“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.” ThinkingWantNeedsSchoolTeacherSubjectsConsumersShopsGoods Author:Daniel Pennac
“I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.” ThinkingYearsTodayDifficultSubjectsElectionFactorsDiscourseControversialPublic DiscourseElection Years Author:John Poindexter
“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingFirstsBookProblemAttentionHappenedSubjectsSeriousNeededPeriodsSolutionsIntenseClarityRevelationsConcentrationContemplatingSubconsciousDeliberateIncubation Author:Bertrand Russell
“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.” ThinkingMindBodySpacePathWonderfulSubjectsWalkingGenderI RealizedPursueMarchUrbanDemonstrationParadesUrban Life Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.” ThinkingKindMatterHumanityQualitySubjectsInstinctWesternFollowingGutsSubject Matter Author:Anson Mount
“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.” ThinkingWayKindBookMatterStuffBitsSidesSubjectsInfluentialSubject MatterRefined Author:Isaac Marion