Thinking Quotes - Page 189

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

I certainly think the free-market has failed.

The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Think of suffering as being washed.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

We are always the same age inside.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.