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“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”

Thinking Play Use Light Seems Fall Shadow Surface Shade Stains Light And Shadow

Author:John French Sloan

“A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.”

People Thinking World Wells Use Dream Cases Knowing Tomorrow Visionaries Daydreaming

Author:Leonard Lauder

“The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.”

Thinking Men World Firsts Whole Use Earth Desire Found Virtue Democracy Modern Expression Authority Resources Ideals Aim Pursuit Modern World Turning Points Nature Of Man

Author:Walter Lippmann

“My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.”

Thinking Feels Years Littles Use Jobs My Own New York Years Ago Gold Charity Everyday Library Various Occasions Bags Hobbies Elegant Velvet Auctions Gavel

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.”

Thinking Giving Humans Facts Use Human Beings White Color Paper Skins Importance Give Me Murder Presses Impression Despite Stakes Glorify Hostage

Author:Malcolm X

“Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.”

“Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

“When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Use Hands Care Faces Space Drink Dresses I Care Wipe Because I Can

Author:Ani DiFranco

“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Use Reality Moral Progress Failing Generations Judging Achievement Standards Tests Currents Vigorous Forward Thinking

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.”

Thinking Should Use Source Cia Fbi Mischief

Author:Jerry Brown

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.”

Thinking Use Games Effects Particular Computer Creating Tasks Direct Drawing Invisible Manipulation Editing Playing Games Computer Systems Drawing Pictures

Author:Donald A. Norman

“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.”

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Author:William Gibson

“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”

People Thinking Firsts Use Causes Voice Forget Animal Issues First Time Abuse Determined Animal Abuse

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying with all his heart and soul to think his way along some difficult road of thought. Of a sudden he finds himself unable to go on. Something within him stops. A tiny explosion takes place. He bursts into words and talks, perhaps foolishly. Little side currents of his nature he didn't know were there run out and get themselves expressed. It is at such times that a man boasts, uses big words, makes a fool of himself in general.”

Source: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories

“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.”

Thinking Should Book Use Turns Deals Cutting Tree Industry Amount Paper Impact Distance Marketing Enormous Traditional Electricity Ecological Retail

Author:William Gibson

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.”

People Thinking Two Use Right Now Absolutes Agree Genre Pretentious

Author:Michael Chabon

“Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how much I've learned over the years. I think both books are essential, as they don't really teach you one particular look that will go out of style next season, but rather tools and tricks you can use over the years.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Book Use Eye Next Realizing Teach Fashion Style Particular Essentials Tools Seasons Tricks Opening I've Learned Eye Opening Fashion And Beauty

Author:Lauren Conrad

“3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.”

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Author:Tim Burton

“He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.”

“I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.”

Thinking Art Use Approach Complexes Engineers Texture Elitist

Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews

“I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.”

Thinking World Way Want Trying Play Use Sides Views Audience Successful Particular Normal Cinema

Author:Terry Gilliam

“People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.”

People Thinking Matter Use Powerful Creativity Creative Effects Talent Keys Elements Luck Fundamentals

Book:The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

“What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.”

Thinking World Needs Use House New York Fairs Miracle Guidance Los Angeles Thieves Places To Go Cleveland Dens Dismay

Author:Frank Loesser

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.”

People Thinking World Trying Use Trade Airplane Missiles Slam Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.”

People Thinking Wells Use Order Community Baby Program Dancing Males Active Forests Naked Celebrate Demon Witch Stolen Turkeys Witchcraft Legion Outreach

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.”

Thinking Persons Use Lying Effort Pay Attention One Thing Tools Rewards Valuable Hearing Intuition Receiving Vibrations Never Lie

Author:Bob Proctor

“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Trying Hard Use Answers Accepting Wonder Taken Asking What If Way Of Thinking Road Not Taken

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Thinking Needs Use Body Found Finals Come Up Isolation Establishment Resurrection Entity Preparing Leafs Imperatives Embryos Tots Body Change

Author:Marsden Hartley

“I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.”

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Book:Nancy Crow

Source: Nancy Crow

“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.”

Thinking Use Order Sound Lines Degrees Instruments Paint Musical Patterns Theme Passages Emphasis Hints Musical Instruments Vivaldi

Author:Nelson Shanks

“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.”

Thinking Knows World Needs May Book Use Would Be Able Beautiful House Focus One Day Thousand Standards Buying Load Collectors Buckets Snapshots Beautiful Images

Author:Ransom Riggs

“Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Use Father Weight Clumsy Using Me

Author:Yasmina Reza

“You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful laterand vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.”

People Thinking Use Beautiful Theory Simplicity Vices Careful Guides Be Careful Vice Versa

Author:Lisa Randall

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.”

Thinking May Littles Book Stories Use Shows Fiction Novel Strange Elements Benefits Science Fiction Harm Tiny Cooks Genre Friendly Puzzles Detectives Isaac Detective Stories

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.”

Thinking Writing Reason Enough Use Causes One Thing Effects Taste Wine Cause And Effect

Author:Gerald Asher

“TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.”

People Thinking Humans Use Guy Answers Taken Conditions Television Ready Tvs Reflection Crucial Human Condition

Author:Alan Arkin

“The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.”

Thinking Men Should Mean Long God Use Names Cutting Kings Mouths Refusal Hideous Sloth Usage Short Cuts Shorthand

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Two Use Hands Steps Fronts Vacation Globes Desks Pencils Tempted Shaking Investigating Two Hands Aromatherapy

Author:Nancy Duarte

“I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.”

Thinking World Two Important Use Process Needed Reflection Terminology

Author:Peter Senge

“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”

Thinking Knows Littles Character Use Realizing Differences Interesting Deals Standing Crosses Twenties Symbolism Billboards

Author:Paul Schrader

“Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.”

Thinking Way Use Seems Social Greater Essentials Property Forgotten Agreement Conventions Exclusive Owning It

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.”

Thinking Littles Doe Reason Use Certain Differences Half Wonder One Thing Sea Rivers Wings Patterns Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tied Wet Worn Worn Out Trout Nymphs Trimming

Author:Ray Bergman

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