Thinking Quotes - Page 105

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: "This is what we have done in history" but when people begin to say, "No this is what we have done in history" it's a different thing.

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God’s word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

You're a car, but most of all, what you are, what you've become, is a mate. And that's what makes a car special. That's what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.