“I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.” ThinkingWayFeelsStoriesTogetherLaughingCryEqualApproachJokesToolsHopefullySurvivingColumnsListen To MeMake You Cry Author:Sayed Kashua
“I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesToolsSensibleTapeOrganizeFragments Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.” ThinkingKnowsKindStoriesAttentionBrainTypePagesArgumentToolsSentencesPay AttentionProgression Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.” ThinkingIdeasTodayWishMiddleCenturyExpressionCreatingToolsSelfishDesigner20th CenturyNorm Author:Khoi Vinh
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.” IfsThinkingWritingIdeasAttentionFocusPaperToolsExcellentConcentrationPencilsFocus And ConcentrationPaper And Pencil Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“If you think communism is too hard a word - necessitates for government to be your god. And for government to be your God, they need to destroy the concept of God. That's why communism and evolution go hand in hand. Evolution is one of the strongest tools of Marxism. Because if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it's much easier to convince you that God does not exist.” IfsThinkingNeedsDoeHardHandsGovernmentEvolutionEasierConceptsToolsCommunismConvinceStrongestMonkeysMarxismHand In Hand Author:Rafael Cruz
“I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in.” PeopleThinkingNeedsStillsSocialRealizingMediaCommunicationToolsWork OutSocial MediaAvenues Author:Ian MacKaye
“The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.” ThinkingWorldLastsSituationMediaToolsMedicineNotionTransformingParadigmTransforming The World Author:Marianne Williamson
“Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools. It's important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingImportantKidsAgeHoursStudyWeekDrawsToolsPainterMasterpieceViolinAmazing Music Author:Bjork
“I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they are connected. The best tool we have for advancing environmental solutions is our democracy, and we can't currently access it because it has been so thoroughly hijacked by big corporate interests.” ThinkingHas BeensBigsRealityPoliticalInterestDemocracySolutionsToolsEnvironmentalConnectedAccessLandscapeCorporateLooking GoodAdvancing Author:Annie Leonard
“I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!” ThinkingStoriesMightDarkPowerfulComedyExampleToolsInfidelityFinancingDark ComedyCrowdfunding Author:Kit Williamson
“What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.” PeopleThinkingIdeasAblePastSocialAbilityResultsPowerfulPossibilityInternetRight NowToughToolsSpreadOrganizePowerlessNetworkingUrgencySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkResourcefulBrewingReally Powerful Author:Shepard Fairey
“I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.” PeopleThinkingAbleCommunitySeeingIndustryInternetMajorsToolsLabelsSchemesTypicalPyramidsMusic IndustrySuperstarTop DownPyramid Schemes Author:Amanda Palmer
“The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.” PeopleThinkingToolsMarketingCorporations Author:Paul Morley
“When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?” ThinkingWorldIndividualToolsSupporterCheerleader Author:Nick Cave
“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.” ThinkingWellsLittlesLongPhilosophyFormViewsPeriodsIntellectualEthicsToolsPhilosophicalBoxesTreatedVersionsContemptRespectableCalculusUtilitarianismTool Boxes Author:Allen W. Wood
“When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsEndsHelpingUseTogetherProcessVisionClearPiecesDesignInspireToolsGuidesApartmentOverwhelmedCollectingTake Your TimeMeshClear Vision Author:Karlie Kloss
“When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.” ThinkingLooksStillsUseSocialPowerfulMediaToolsSpeciesSocial MediaFavorsExtrasTailsFurnitureLashesGrappling Author:Charlie Brooker
“Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.” IfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensUseCoursesSocialAnimalPowerfulMediaInternetToolsTragedyPressesSocial MediaCuresGoing AwayBe YouLimbsPrintingPrinting PressUltras Author:Charlie Brooker
“You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsStatesDoneJobsTurnsSoundUnitedPayUnited StatesTakenWonderfulHeardPercentToolsInstitutionsMovedEightGoldenServantMagnificentViewersGreat JobDepositsParachutesPublic ServantsGet The Job DoneWonderful PersonSheila Author:Warren Buffett
“On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingFeelsI CanUsedInformationDadToolsMy DadRevolutionarySundaySermonsRecruit Author:Wyclef Jean
“I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.” ThinkingCertainSkillsTools Author:Joe Flacco
“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.” ThinkingKnowsMotherLanguagePowerfulBabySurvivalToolsTraitsPossessedMimickingDucklings Author:Trevor Noah
“I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.” ThinkingShouldHas BeensAbilityViewsInfluenceMilitaryEventsShapesToolsConsistentBroadsUnderestimateMilitary PowerToolboxAmerican Power Author:Barack Obama
“Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.” ThinkingFirstsHelpingUseJobsCreatingToolsSafetyFollyTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.” ThinkingFeelsHardBlackColorBecomingToolsLiberationTherapyBlack WomenPsychiatrist Author:Morgan Parker
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker
“It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.” ThinkingFeelsTryingDifferentUsedLike YouDrugToolsConnectionsPlantMarijuanaBeneficialPsychedelicMushroomsPsychedelic DrugsOrganic LifePeyote Author:Joe Rogan
“Now 3D is no longer a fad but I don't get all crazy about it and say that everything has got to be in 3D. It is a nice tool, like color or sound or whatever. I was quite intrigued and I learned, 3D opened up a lot of questions about how to use it. I think it is great. It's like if a movie needs to be in black and white then that's how I will shoot it. I see color as just another character or black and white as a character.” IfsThinkingNeedsCharacterUseSoundBlackWhiteNiceCrazyColorToolsBlack And WhiteIntriguedFads Author:Tim Burton
“I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookMatterHelpingYoungReaderToolsImportant ThingsEducationalComicComic BookLiteracy Author:Stan Lee
“If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.” IfsThinkingDangerProductsToolsCustomersGoogle Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“We can't automatically think about young women in makeup negatively. Sometimes a woman engages in these new forces and energies of beauty coming into her world. They can become tools. She's trying to express her femininity outwardly. I'm still learning too.” ThinkingWorldTryingStillsSometimesYoungEnergyForceToolsMakeupYoung WomenFemininityForce And Energy Author:Nelly Furtado
“I think that [Obama] sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool.” ThinkingWorldLooksStatesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryDangerousToolsAround The WorldApplicationThreateningUnited States Military Author:Michael T. Flynn
“While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.” IfsThinkingMayEmotionalConcernedToolsIronyNervesEngagementStorytellerRetreatUncool Author:Steve Erickson
“Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership.” PeopleThinkingUseYoungResourcesToolsHungryInvitesPartnershipDominationAccelerate Author:Riane Eisler
“My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].” ThinkingTryingKidsMotherHurtImagineMomToolsPassingPassingsBeing TherePassing AwayYour Mom Author:Michael B. Jordan
“We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is going to be a really Twilight Zonish situation. It is definitely interesting. Once Google is in a blood cell sized device in our brain, do we become part Google? There are certainly interesting things to think about and provocative questions, but I don't think those provocative questions are going to do anything to slow down the onset of these technologies arriving and becoming even more pervasive.” ThinkingDoeEndsInterestingBrainSituationTechnologyBloodBecomingToolsCellsDevicesTwilightGoogleSlow DownInteresting ThingsProvocativeCognitionArrivingBlood Cells Author:Jason Silva
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsFoundFeltRealizingMy OwnSituationProductsToolsManageRealizationNovelistsSolidarityEvoke Author:Elif Batuman
“I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the key governments in the West using a variety of tools, as well as military assault on Ukraine.” ThinkingWellsStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryKeysToolsInstitutionsWestRussiaVarietyPushingAssaultUkraine Author:Daniel Fried
“I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.” ThinkingInformationToolsFunctionPlusVolumeDerivativesOverloadInformation Overload Author:Paul Saffo
“I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindSaidTwoHelpingInformationThis WorldToolsMake SenseLatterGapsNutsVolumeJohnsonOverload Author:Paul Saffo
“The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.” ThinkingTryingArtTodayFormSoundStyleFitTasteToolsMainstreamTrying To Fit In Author:Gordon Raphael
“My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed companies to adopt a consumer orientation and to be in the value creation business. I didn't pay much attention to the social responsibilities of business until later. Now I am pressing companies to address the triple bottom line: people, the planet, and profits. I found that companies were too much into short term profit maximization and they needed to invest more in sustainability thinking.” PeopleThinkingValuesFoundSocialTermInterestLinesPayAttentionResponsibilityCompanyToo MuchCreationPlanetsTheoryNeededToolsAimMethodBottomMarketingProfitPrimariesConsumersAddressesSustainabilitySocial ResponsibilityBottom LineShort TermOrientationProfit Maximization Author:Philip Kotler
“I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.” ThinkingMindHumansHuman BeingsAbilityBrainTechnologyRevolutionLimitsToolsMusclesDigitalAdaptabilityIndustrial RevolutionAbility To AdaptDigital Revolution Author:Jason Silva
“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindArtMadeMatterLastsCoursesTechnologyDevelopmentHappeningsArt IsToolsImprovementPhenomenonDiscernmentInterfacesMind And Matter Author:Vik Muniz
“I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensToolsResponseFortunateMisfortunesResponding Author:Clarence Thomas
“I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.” ThinkingMomentsCharacterStreetsToolsBackgroundsPoetic Author:Elia Suleiman
“Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.” PeopleThinkingEnoughCommunicationToolsShoes Author:Christian Louboutin
“For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.” ThinkingRealSocialAbilityCompanyMediaProduceToolsSocial MediaDecadesConsumersControlledPlatformsPeers Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.” ThinkingWantShouldSimpleToolsArmyCleanKnivesGoogleCleaningSwissSwiss Army Knives Author:Marissa Mayer