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“I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.”

Author:Mike O'Malley

“Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.”

Thinking Believe Wells Looks Long Matter Done Girl Levels Behinds Cash Believe In Me Towers Register That Girl

Author:Christine Lavin

“The best music of any era lasts well, I think.”

Thinking Wells Lasts Eras

Author:Peter Asher

“Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.”

Thinking Wells Important Old Fashioned

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?”

Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Running Greed China Russia

Author:Milton Friedman

“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Next Goal Talking Achieve Serious Dad Crosses My Dad Next Year

Author:Miranda Leek

“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Turns Talking Economy Cutting Policy Rate Feds Stimulus Better Ways Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Franklin Raines

“Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Form Economy Consumers Pockets

Author:Franklin Raines

“To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.”

Thinking Wells Wisdom Highest Perfection Accounts Oneself

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

People Thinking Men Wells Doe Eye Stage He Man Safe Loud Applause Discretion Relish Vehement

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.”

Thinking Should Wells Hard Fighting Term Enemy Military Destruction Killing Strategist

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.”

“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor wise. There are infinite possibilities as there are infinite people and some matches are better than others...Just don't say that you'll die without the other one or that you'll never love again or that you're not whole-That's the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, hasty nonsense, and you know how well that turned out...Just don't be desperate about it. That's where souls go wrong, when they think they don't have choices. The heart must make choices.”

“She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh”

Thinking Trying Wells Hours Perfect Style Normal Singing Drawing Crafts Developing Assumption Diligence

Author:Laura Joplin

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”

Thinking Life Wells May Book Sometimes Done Stories Lovers Pages Book Lover

Book:Tiger Lily

Source: Tiger Lily

“In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.”

Thinking Needs Wells Powerful Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Endeavor About Yourself Vehicle Positive Thoughts Selective Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Helping Life Is Add Helping Others Realization Reincarnation Better Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person who came before me. It's more like, "Yeah, I'm doing my thing and what happens, happens," and fortunately those have been some pretty amazing results.”

Thinking Wells Persons Has Beens Happens Results Records Pressure Yeah Setting Settings

Author:Mariel Zagunis

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Bigs Political Fighting Process Interest United Results Class Economy Doubt Middle Citizens Republican Prepared Clinton Candidates Middle Class Citizens United

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Facts Difficult Known Gay Kissing Sexuality Screens Homosexuality Well Known Convincing Frogs Kiss Me

Author:Stephen Fry

“I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.”

People Thinking Years Wells Looks Character Able Together Girl Attention Land Training Males Details Noise Lifts Dancer Toes Effortless Attention To Detail

Author:Misty Copeland

“When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Long Use Able Values Can Do Position Balls Commit Naked Shock You Can Do It Lit Feels Right Push Ups Shock Value

Author:Charlize Theron

“I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.”

Thinking Wells Looks Kind Technology Yeah Backgrounds Being True Representation Imaginative

Author:Bill Nighy

“I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".”

Ifs Thinking Wells Hands Poor Class Economic Middle Cards Bother Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Wells War Hard Comedy Fans Serious Genre Genre Is War Movie

Author:Ben Stiller

“I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.”

Thinking Writing Wells Littles Abstract

Author:Ryan Adams

“You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."”

Thinking Wells Jobs Remember Courses Crazy Mad

Author:Bill Nighy

“Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.”

Thinking Wells Time Known Victory Miracle Speed Vanity Well Known Descendants Hares Tortoises

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

Thinking Writing Wells Soul Feelings Together Expression Taste Wit Good Feeling Writing Well Good Thinking Thinking Good

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.”

Thinking Wells Matter Moments Might Achievement No Matter What Shortcomings Rare Moments

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.”

Thinking Mind Wells Mean Doe Religion Hearing Factors Temples Monasteries Taming

Book:The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

Source: The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

“One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.”

Thinking Wells Sides Freedom Cutting Isolation Traps Banquets

Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" 'Well yes I do! Thank you very much.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Wells Looks Littles Body Would Be Guy Sports Behinds Car Yeah Checks Loud Knees Trading Jackets Hood Analogies

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.”

Thinking Believe Wells I Believe I Believe In Karma Reincarnation I Believe In Karma

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.”

Thinking Wells Different Growth Lines Results Study Fields Balance Diversity Bottom Gender Multiple Bottom Line

Author:Christine Lagarde

“It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.”

People Thinking Wells Difficult Battle Difficulty Mere Dear Dear Friend Approximation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.”

Thinking Wells May Art Different Former Reaching Latter Faculty Eloquence Lofty Very Deep

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?”

Thinking Wells Looks Periods Draws Mirrors Grim

Author:David Hockney

“To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.”

Thinking Wells Looks I Can Bigs Bits Can Do Dance

Author:Paul McCartney

“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.”

Thinking Wells Children Self Sides My Own Known Creative Ego Responsible Secure Well Known Creative Work

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.”

Thinking Wells Success Lines Success And Failure Dividing Success Failure

Author:Richard Branson

“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.”

Thinking Wells May Cowardice Critical Thinking Unanimity

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.”

Thinking Wells Hard Actors Watches Theater Painful Bad Movies Painful Experiences

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells Important Facts Today Able Understanding Community Race Support He Man Communication Men And Women Appreciation Gender Boundaries

Author:Anita Hill

“Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.”

People Thinking Wells Made Choices Parent Mistake Knowing Like You Ideals Prepared Our Love Wrong Choices

Book:Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

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