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“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

People Thinking Want Two Ready Empathy Thirds Think Before You Speak

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?”

Thinking Writing Firsts Book Thirds Optimistic Fourth Optimist Publish

Author:Margaret Atwood

“There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Life Looks Two Choices Impossible Thirds Stuck Life Choices

Author:Marcus Sedgwick

“Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.”

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Author:Holly Black

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

Thinking World Way Country Nations United Thirds Relation Seven International Israel Fifty United Nations Korea North Korea International Relations

Author:Abdallah II

“In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.”

Source: Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”

“Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Stories Young Advice Thirds Young Writers

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Believe Real Reality Seems Certain Levels Know How Thirds Deeper Not Sure Naive Schism

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.”

Source: Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book

“First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.”

Thinking Firsts Mean Sometimes Walks Cases Doors Thirds Sight Fourth Second Thoughts Tiffany's

Author:Terry Pratchett

“With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.”

Thinking Firsts Lying Drink Thirds Wishful Thinking

Author:Douglas Coupland

“First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.”

People Thinking World Way Firsts Enjoy Watches Listening Thirds Everyday Witchcraft Troublesome Second Thoughts

Author:Terry Pratchett

“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.”

Thinking Persons Said Two Walking Thirds Entity County Here I Am Two Of Us Third Person

Book:The Bridges Of Madison County

Source: The Bridges Of Madison County

“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”

People Thinking Two Book White Racism Thirds Sentences Race In America

Author:Junot Diaz

“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”

Thinking Firsts Said Girl Bits Like You Thirds Throat Daytime I Like You

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?”

Thinking Different Together Faces Law Nations Lines Simple Animal Sacrifice Mines Treats Thirds Honestly Compare Generous Insult Bows Boast Get Together Annuals Worshippers

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Looks Important Seeing Advice Thirds Harder Important Things Ugly Meaning Of Life Ugliness Finding Happiness

Author:Matt Haig

“George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making.”

Thinking Said Two Problem Politics Names Stars Week Speech Thirds Attempting All Stars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.”

Thinking Firsts Believe Hard Motivational Sports Easier First Time Thirds Quitting Nfl Football Coach Third Time Alabama Football

Author:Bear Bryant

“Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That is the question in response. And third of all, it is a tough path to citizenship. You have to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or waiting legally. So, i just reject that.”

People Thinking Want Wells Waiting Lines Pay Behinds Path Clear Records Taxes Tough Thirds Response Immigration Rejects Citizenship Immigration Reform Amnesty

Author:John McCain

“I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.”

Thinking Knows Trying Enough Helping Lines Roles Stupid Thirds Hockey Nhl Not Stupid

Author:Darcy Tucker

“After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.”

Thinking Knows Years Might Winning Goal Lines Four Stupid Periods Thirds Cups League Ties Hockey Know Me Halfway Stanley Playoffs Referee Stanley Cup Tampa

Author:Pat Burns

“We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.”

Thinking World Firsts Wells War States Helping Fighting United Poverty United States Violence Conflict Thirds Solve Horrible Ongoing Third World Horrific Ending Poverty

Author:Martin Sheen

“I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.”

“If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Two Science Fit Logic Thirds Witty Two Things Credulity

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]”

“Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.”

Thinking Giving Years Eye Attention Teaching Middle Style Thirds Corners Contact Addresses Halls Listeners Drs Lectures Delivery Expressive Eye Contact Third Time Thinking Of Others

Author:Jane Smiley

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Would Be Law Evil House Months Thirds Constitution Bills Majority Passing Passings Passages Twelve Immense Stance Instability Passing It

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not alone, what could cause a new Copernican revolution, a quantum leap in our thinking and perspective. We would finally realize that we are one mankind and all the small differences which separate humans from each other today-nationality, race, religion-would disappear. Only together can mankind explore the universe, our true home and destiny.”

“I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.”

People Thinking World Enough America Given Information Thirds Third World

Author:Martin Sheen

“Each time I do a trilogy it's ten years out of my life. I'll finish Episode III and I'll be 60. And the next 20 years after that I want to spend doing something other than Star Wars. If at 80 I'm still lively and having a good time and think I can work for another 10 years between 80 and 90, I might consider it. But don't count on it. There's nothing written, and it's not like I'm completing something. I'd have to start from scratch. The idea of a third trilogy was more of a media thing than it was me.”

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Author:George Lucas

“I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Remember Interesting Talking Path Majors Thirds University Comedian Indifference Germany Historian Holocaust Remember When Auschwitz Apathetic Interesting Ideas

Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.”

Thinking War Ends Moments Today Order Courses Loss Air Proud Victory Thousand Quiet Protect Ten Highest Thirds Killing Rate Boat Pilots Survived Sailor Quiet Moments

Author:Gunther Rall

“I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.”

Thinking Wells Persons Sometimes Needed Shots Thirds Balls Hot Tonight Quarters Pointers

Author:Shawn Marion