Thinking Quotes - Page 433

The goal of gospel teaching... is not to 'pour information' into the minds of class members... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.

I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.

People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying . . . (My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter.

I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

I think the @Colts should be the #1 team in the power rankings.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.