“It's always hard but the reality is, especially in my case, that every time I go to work I have to do it so it's become part of the job. It's an extra challenge but it's also quite often another extra tool that you have to really think consciously about getting into the character. So while it does require more work, it's maybe even an advantage to a degree because it forces you to switch, to consciously have to jump into and out of the character.” ThinkingDoeHardCharacterRealityJobsForceChallengesCasesDegreesAdvantageToolsExtrasWorking It Author:Eric Bana
“Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayWould BeAbleGuyCertainAttitudeSituationHeroSurvivalToughToolsEndureTypicalFinestTestedTough GuyNaiveteTrue HeroAmazing Man Author:Christian Bale
“Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.” ThinkingWayEndsToolsInnovative Author:Patton Oswalt
“Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.” ThinkingKindHas BeensAbleComputerResourcesToolsIncrediblesEditing Author:Sufjan Stevens
“Ultimately I think I learned a lot from my mother - the way she used fashion to make herself feel better; it was a tool she had and she used it very well. Fashion for her wasn't so far as an escape, but certainly a time where she would sit on her own and prepare what she wanted to wear the next day - it turned into bit of a ritual.” ThinkingWayFeelsWellsWantedUsedMotherNextBitsFashionToolsRitualFeel BetterNext Day Author:Matthew Williamson
“There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.” ThinkingWorldNeedsCountryUseJobsDifficultTermImagineTaxesToolsAgreeTradeWideCardsAround The WorldProvenVariationCapsBest JobSwedenCo2Tax System Author:Al Gore
“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.” ThinkingWayGivingTryingWellsKindHas BeensSometimesDoneJobsLanguageForceDangerousInternetComputerApproachToolsMachinesOppositesArmyOne WayShopsWay Of ThinkingComputer LanguageSwissPerlChainsawMachine Shop Author:Larry Wall
“All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.” PeopleThinkingHumansCountryAbilityDesignObjectsToolsInstanceAwfulButtonsUnitsExtensionsFidelityInconvenientHigh Fidelity Author:Victor Papanek
“I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.” ThinkingNeedsMadeImportantEnoughGrowthClearDisciplineToolsMade ItFranceBudgetsIntroducingSpeculationEuro Author:Francois Hollande
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way to get at it - I think is having a huge impact in Africa most particularly, where it enables people - suddenly, they know crop prices. They can communicate. It makes their lives more efficient.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFirstsHugeInternetToolsImpactIncrediblesPhonesCommunicateCellsEfficientAnother WayCropsCell Phone Author:Esther Dyson
“I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If visual effects (or the lack thereof) are used as a tool to strengthen an idea, they're great. If they are meant to carry more of a load in the absence of a concept, they're a waste and a distraction.” IfsThinkingIdeasFilmUsedTermDifferencesViewsEffectsIndustryWasteConceptsToolsAbsenceVisualsDistractionAdsLoadFilm IndustryVisual Effects Author:Joshua Rogers
“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.” IfsThinkingFirstsBelieveUseProblemKidsI BelieveParentMorningIssuesPiecesDoorsAirFiguresSkillsCapableToolsBalls Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsLooksStillsReasonCertainMorningSeriousToolsDressesShiningMarketingStatementsGet UpEmsMakeupGlitter Author:Dolly Parton
“The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.” PeopleThinkingKindRealHelpingShowsAbleRememberInterestChallengesStudentsToolsInstrumentsApplesTechnologicalEducatorProviders Author:John Sculley
“I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.” ThinkingIdeasAblePowerfulToolsHeavyVery Powerful Author:Camille Henrot
“The Internet is a very powerful tool, but right now it's being handled by a lot of fools. And I think us together, Marilyn Manson as a whole, what we all stand for, should be the biggest spider on the web. I think that it will become our web. Not something that uses us, but something that we will control” ThinkingShouldWholeUseTogetherPowerfulFoolInternetRight NowToolsSpidersVery PowerfulManson Author:Marilyn Manson
“...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterHelpingTeachWonderfulOne ThingTeachingStudentsDisciplineShapesSkillsMusic IsToolsMusicalMathDevelopingBiologyCooperationTeaching History Author:Rich Mullins
“The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.” IfsThinkingLyingEvilCompassionToolsAnd LovePositivityCombatConceptualizationNature Of Evil Author:Vera Farmiga
“The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsBelieveHelpingSufferingI BelieveMoralIgnoranceHe ManOfficeToolsMachinesResponsibleMeetingsObligationEthicalJohnsonMaintenanceAdvertisementsTreacherousMoral ObligationMalfeasance Author:Charlie Munger
“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.” IfsThinkingWayWellsMatterWould BeOrderHalfProjectsPercentToolsBoxesCustomersProductivityImprovementCodeBurnedTestingCdsDocumentation Author:Fred Brooks
“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.” ThinkingSocialComputerToolsFeminine Author:Terence McKenna
“A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.” ThinkingLanguageInfluenceHabitToolsProfoundProgrammingComputer ProgrammingProgramming Languages Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.” ThinkingGivingDifferentUseChangeDesignToolsInstrumentsDevicesInventor Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.” ThinkingNeedsEndsBodyStuffExistenceToolsBody ImageFemale Body Author:Lena Dunham
“Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty.” ThinkingKnowsShouldYearsSometimesUsedOne DayLetting GoToolsDifficultyExtraordinaryInsightTraditionalPriestsPsychiatristPsychotherapyToolbox Author:Laura Huxley
“I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.” ThinkingLooksImportantBigsKidsReadingDevelopmentReaderToolsConnectionsFundamentalsBondingLove Of ReadingKids Love Author:Ziggy Marley
“I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?” PeopleThinkingWayKindDesignPaperAmbitionToolsImportanceMarketingCommunicateCustomersRestaurantsPrintedMenusTypefaces Author:Joe Bastianich
“It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.” IfsThinkingWritingDifferentTogetherPerfectGoneMetsDirectorsToolsDown AndTablesBoxesLike MeEditorsPartnershipGrammarDown The RoadLeading Me Author:Todd Farmer
“The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.” ThinkingMindI CanBodyWaterCan DoMissingTools Author:Swami Vivekananda
“I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingTryingBigsMightGuyStuffAudienceKnow HowSkillsToolsBoxesWebsiteOther GuysEditsAdept Author:Louis C. K.
“I really think I'm at the top of my game right now, and I have the tools that I've learned over the years, so I feel really good about what I'm doing onstage now.” ThinkingFeelsYearsGamesRight NowToolsI've Learned Author:Gary Gulman
“The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it in a way that is transformed by the experience of art.” ThinkingWorldWayWantKindPersonsArtEndsFeltNaturalWonderfulStyleToolsStrategyPhotographVersionsDevicesTransformedDocumentariesFlexibleCredibilityRhetoricalRhetorical Strategies Author:Frank Gohlke
“I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDoeCompanyToolsCrafts Author:Martha Stewart
“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.” IfsThinkingWayHumansHelpingUseCareUniverseCoursesMistakeProgressFailingFindingsApproachCreatingToolsTestsStructureTake CareRingsEndeavorOur RelationshipMarvelousImprovingHypothesisTestingTheoreticalMethodologyAnomalies Author:Edgar Mitchell
“We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'” ThinkingWantTryingBigsAnswersToolsInvestmentProducersUsersSteamBig PictureDevelopersAlways Thinking Author:Gabe Newell
“In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.” ThinkingSaidDifferentFactsMotherGirlNiceToolsWho I AmCopingBadgesYearbookBeing WeirdEveryone Is Different Author:Jenny Lawson
“I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.” ThinkingWorldWayTryingMeanLittlesFactsHelpingLife IsSufferingForgetAliveModernFiguresInternetSittingToolsTiredPhonesShipsAbyssModern World Author:Matt de la Pena
“As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why, to me, the most important thing is what it is you are drawing, and in the themes that I depict, I think hand-drawing is the most effective.” ThinkingImportantHandsToolsImportant ThingsOilDrawingThemeAnimationCrayonCgiDrawing Pictures Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.” ThinkingMayHandsLastsUsedMaterialsPromiseAnxietyToolsReachingRealismLast Words Author:Roy Kesey
“Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensAbilityBrainStudyHavensToolsReleaseNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart
“I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.” ThinkingWritingYearsStillsAbleUsedValuesCoursesUnderstandingToolsJazzFlatsLos AngelesSheetsComposingKeyboardsDaveGrandioseOrchestrationWrite Your OwnNotifications Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think we should also provide the judiciary with another tool so that they can rely on the fact that Israel is a Jewish state in verdicts.” ThinkingShouldHumansTwoStatesFactsLawStrongLibertyRightsToolsDemocraticHuman RightsIsraelRelyVery StrongJudiciaryVerdictPersonal Liberty Author:Ayelet Shaked
“When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.” ThinkingMenStillsSexMy OwnPowerfulIndustryModelsMen And WomenToolsFinancialNakedImprovingOwn BusinessProspects Author:Molly Crabapple
“The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to not know what you're doing. So I think the screenplay is a great tool to get everybody on the same page.” ThinkingKnowsStepsPagesToolsEssenceScreenplaysMeter Author:Robert Schwentke
“Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table. I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy, the reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I've heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.” ThinkingLittlesReasonUseTodayEarthBitsStruggleWonderfulHeardPlanetsTypeLittle BitMessagesToolsRegardTablesTherapyTherapistsPlanet EarthCounseling Author:Alan Chambers
“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.” ThinkingUseSoundInterestStageGoes OnComputerToolsInstrumentsFasterComposingGoofy Author:Glenn Branca
“But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future maybe to listen not just to black holes colliding, but maybe listen to the big bang itself, those kind of applications may happen in the not too distant future.” IfsThinkingGivingKindMayUseBigsHappensAbleBlackToolsWavePracticalsHolesCosmosApplicationBangsImplicationsBlack HoleEnriching Author:Brian Greene
“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveMayImportantEndsPoliticalI BelieveSidesConceptsToolsUniversalAbuseFlawsSpectrumCritiquePolitical Spectrum Author:Alison Assiter
“I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.” ThinkingMadeStoriesMightCultureGoalNumbersLeaderSuccessfulToolsImpactCommunicateMassiveGreat LeaderRetrospectIntrovertedSuccessful Leaders Author:David Livermore