Quotes by Thinking The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much. Alexis Ohanian angelkidsthinking It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be like because you just don't really know how anyone's feeling about it. You come off stage like, "Was that good?" Alexis Taylor feelingspeoplethinking When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them. Alexis Taylor recordsneedsthinking I think that the best guarantee for the Cypriot people to feel safe is the potential of a fair and sustainable solution. Alexis Tsipras guaranteespeoplethinking We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered. Alfie Kohn understandingideasthinking What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis (1) undermines students' interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried. Alfie Kohn smartchallengesthinking Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control. Alfie Kohn runningchildrenthinking Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees. Alfie Kohn employeecompetitionthinking Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed. Alfie Kohn selfcountrythinking I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy. Alfonso Cuaron democracyimportantthinking I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement. Alfonso Cuaron importantgivingthinking The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend. Alfonso Cuaron humanitylongthinking On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or connect to. It's not that we see the world in the same way because we have very different points of view, but we're both visual stylists. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon differentviewsthinking I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon environmentmadethinking I think that at this moment, I am trying to live the moments we're passing through. In the future, I will see where the future will take me. Alfonso Herrera live-in-the-momenttryingthinking I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it. Alfonso Soriano playthinking I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group. Alfre Woodard doctorscharacterthinking A good writer - and I think it's this way with actors too - even if you have two lines, you have to do the same complete work as if you're number one on the call sheet. If you get in an elevator and somebody gets on, rides two floors and gets off, that person has a reality that goes back to when they were born. They have memories, they have people, they have a life. They are doing something right now that the camera is on them in their space. We live in our own close-up all the time. Alfre Woodard memoriesrealitythinking I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run. Alfre Woodard playrunningthinking The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person. If people get afraid to show the flaws because they think, "Oh, then nobody will like them," then you end up with a lot of products, and everybody wants to be frigging heroic all the time - not what people are trapped in every day, like your skirt being in your panties after you walk out of the bathroom. Being human. Sometimes when people are drawn to your work, they're drawn because they recognize themselves or their loved ones or their neighbor in it. Alfre Woodard characterpeoplethinking«124125126127128129130131132133134»
