“If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 1048 of 4756
“The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?”
“When we think good thoughts and choose the actions that make us feel good, Life provides us with all the evidence we need that we are loved and cared for.”
“I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system.”
“See your later years as becoming your treasure years. Sit quietly and think of all the times you were joyful, and let your body feel this joy.”
“It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything to do with the other. Even more so: I think that there is almost a reaction against style, that brute ugliness somehow has been interpreted as being the way to go.”
“Of course, there's some you think, well I wouldn't let them in the door, but there's not many. It's very important to know that it's a mutual thing, that there is respect and a form of teamwork. With quite a few of them it can be traumatic, but there are moments in here when they do extraordinary things with their designs. There are things of beauty I get to see in this office.”
“Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.”
“It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.”
“After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.”
“That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.”
“A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.”
“I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.”
“I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.”
“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”
“Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.”
“A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.”
“If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.”
“A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.”
“No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.”