Shakuntala Devi Quotes

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Shakuntala Devi

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• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Thinking

• I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Thinking

• It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

  

  Joan Chen
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Study

• If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• The Ballon d'Or? It's up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Money

• I definitely feel like you have an influence. I'm 21 years old, and I'm thinking about the kids that are from my neighborhood, from my community, that are looking up to me and seeing me handle myself a certain way, so I do feel a responsibility in that sense to handle myself a certain way in front of those guys.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Up
  • Thinking

• My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Parents
  • Hand

• If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • New York
  • Run

• It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Spiritual

• I had a really hard time in Orange County. I was a nerd. I was watching foreign cinema when I was 13 and talking about how 'Hope and Glory' should be a foreign film.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Nerd

• I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Thinking
  • Relax
  • Numbers