Alastair Reynolds Quotes

'There’s a catch,' Skellsgard said.'Another one? But of course there is. You know, I’m thinking I should start a collection.'

Alastair Reynolds

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• It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • Better

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

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Risk

• There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Trying
  • History
  • Party

• My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Long
  • Attention

• I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • People

• Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Christian
  • Marriage
  • Virtue

• I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Career
  • Choices
  • Personal Life

• 'There’s a catch,' Skellsgard said.'Another one? But of course there is. You know, I’m thinking I should start a collection.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Thinking