Richard Wright Quotes

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Richard Wright Pink Floyd

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• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• 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

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Habits

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • New

• Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking

• What's drinking?A mere pause from thinking!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thinking
  • Drinking

• But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.

  

  Al Gore
  • Thinking

• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Levels

• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Consciousness

• He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.

  

  John Updike
  • Pain
  • Anxiety

• One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.

  

  Bob Frank
  • Failure
  • Conflict
  • Interests

• There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!

  

  Chris Klein

• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Thinking
  • Playing Music
  • Meditating