Thinking Quotes - Page 253

I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.

Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.

The secret of success is changing the way you think.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.