Thinking Quotes
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Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
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I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
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My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.
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Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.
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I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
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I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.
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Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.
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I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
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I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
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I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.
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Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.
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I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
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I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
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Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
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On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.
