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“I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.”

Thinking Firsts Film Values Information Television Tools Educational

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.”

People Thinking Mind Littles Walks Laughing Comedy Tools Props Make You Laugh Stand Up Comedy Respect People

Author:David Letterman

“Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Shows Used Magic Late Tools Including Profession Show Business Entertainers Forward Thinking

Author:Criss Angel

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.”

“Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?”

Thinking Knows World School Walks Fronts Students Standing Tools Blind Classroom Auditoriums Blind Date

Author:Libba Bray

“Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”

Thinking Want Stories Steps Novel Teaching Reader Tools Entity

Author:Lorrie Moore

“One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.”

“There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.”

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Author:John Green

“Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.”

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Self Faces Wish Deals Powerful Fiction Gone Clear Doubt Theory Intellectual Tools Institutions Discrimination Most Powerful Non Fiction Self-doubt

Author:Bell Hooks

“Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.”

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Author:Hal Abelson

“Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.”

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."”

Thinking Years Believe Said School Wonderful Atheism Taught Tools Instinct Eight Credit Positive Atheism Tales Fairy Rejects Fairy Tale Grammar Grammar School Trust Myself

Author:George Carlin

“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

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Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.”

Thinking Wanted School Taught Tools Independent Catholic Rejects Catholic School

Author:George Carlin

“Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.”

Thinking Language Saws Objects Tools Function Boxes Pot Diverse Nails Screws Hammers Glue Screwdrivers Pliers Tool Boxes

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.”

Thinking Looks Has Beens States Use Action Wanted Given Force President United United States Tools Constitution Responsible Congress Legislation Irresponsible Veto

Book:The Presidential campaign, 1976

Source: The Presidential campaign, 1976

“My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying, Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.”

Thinking Long Soul Lasts Lying Universe Space Four Tools Infinite Intellect Destroyed My Soul Fancy Void Unseen Finite Avenues Abiding Liquid Knots Convicts Vortex Fill The Void

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“It's so easy to misuse social media as a dating tool. I think it can be useful but it's scary when you think about who can access this information and what they're doing with it.”

Thinking Social Easy Media Information Tools Dating Scary Social Media Access Misuse

Author:Justin Long

“I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.”

“I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.”

Thinking Persons Helping Use Able Wish Type Tools Brilliant Sense Of Humor Navigate

Author:Delroy Lindo

“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”

Thinking Hands Power Tools Army Absolutes Supporter Destroyers Absolute Power Lodges

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.”

Thinking Way Use Mistake Knowing Please Tools Electricity Often Is

Author:Margaret Atwood

“You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.”

Thinking Form Three Powerful Tools Behave Most Powerful Three Things Making Changes

Author:Sonia Friedman

“If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Modern Information Tools Organization

Author:Ricardo Semler

“I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.”

Thinking Needs Language Tools University

Author:Ana Tijoux

“I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio”

People Thinking Home Comfortable Understood Tools Studios Access Software Recording Studio

Author:Michael Dumontier

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense.”

Thinking Different Body Bigs Actors Fit Shapes Tools Size Actresses Profession Your Body Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.”

Thinking Trying Comedy Tools

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Important Film Values Opinion Tools Asking Agendas Testing Subjective Tricky Reviewers Who You Know

Author:Bradley Cooper

“As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.”

Thinking Giving Moments Life Is Actors Information Tools Screens Absorbing New Information

Author:Charlie Day

“I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.”

People Thinking Social Cutting Internet Tools Dues Social Change Availability

Author:George Lucas

“My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.”

Thinking Feels Process Painting Degrees Tools Drawing Sculpture Fondness Carving Erasers

Author:Robert Longo

“I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.”

Thinking Social Media Tools Response Social Media Tweet

Author:Mario Andretti

“I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.”

Thinking Needs Art Sometimes Helping Song Voice Tools Guitar My Favorite Connected Mediums Comic Fulfilling

Author:Gerard Way

“I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.”

Thinking Deals Tools Recovery Antidepressants

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.”

Thinking Humans Stills States Process Powerful Numbers Consciousness Taken Negative Tools Awakening Identification States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.”

People Thinking Humans Play Use Games Language Ability Evolution Couple Comfortable Tools Zero Human Evolution Zero Sum Game Watersheds

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.”

“Honestly I think that the internet is one of the most amazing promotional tools out there. And I think it promotes music getting heard in a grass roots way, where people aren't being force fed to listen to something.”

People Thinking Way Force Heard Internet Tools Roots Honestly Grass Feds Most Amazing

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.”

Thinking Tools Financial Just One Fund Hedge Fund

Author:Barack Obama

“As a matter of fact since Barack Obama has been president it is more overt - I believe - than it's been since the 1940's and 50's and so I am not surprised by it. I think it's an excellent teaching tool, particular for my sons and our people to understand that we still have to build within our community. We still have to work with one another. We still have to connect even with people outside of this country.”

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Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.”

People Thinking Whole Problem Government Can Do Business Information Internet Tools Organization Difficulty Leaving Corporations Activist

Author:Joel Bakan

“I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool.”

People Thinking Art Important Media Computer Weakness Tools Traditional Digital Cheating Strength And Weakness Digital Media

Author:Julie Dillon

“I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.”

People Thinking Knows Writing I Can Country Community Cities Struggle Members Tools West Lakes Salt Utah American West Salt Lake City

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“There are lots of people who believe there may be at least some genetic component to procrastination, and even if there isn't, it seems to be the case that procrastination habits are often set relatively early in life (that's certainly the case with me). But I also think that there's lots of evidence that external tools can help quite a bit in getting people to stop procrastinating.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

Thinking Matter Fire Middle Elements Clothes Tools Critical Stuck Cooks Dry Predator Morale Middle Of Nowhere Stuck In The Middle

Author:Bear Grylls

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