Quotes by Thinking What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? Andrei Platonov carried-awaywhat-ifthinking Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it. Andrei Platonov donefeelingsthinking When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head. Andrei Platonov thinking What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books. Andrei Sinyavsky bookyearsthinking I can absolutely tell you that the FSB are rigged up to collect as much compromising information against any target they consider to be valuable. So when Trump was there in Russia, would they have collected against him? I think the answer is yes. Andrei Soldatov valuablecompromisethinking I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger. Andrei Tarkovsky boredmeanthinking Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it. Andrei Tarkovsky starsartthinking When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being? Andrei Tarkovsky effortmeanthinking I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth. Andrei Tarkovsky linksrealitythinking There was no time to think, I just hit it Andres Iniesta time-to-thinkfootballthinking If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador bosspeoplethinking You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest. Andres Segovia tiredmindthinking I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while. Andres Serrano certainty-in-lifenormalthinking I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work. Andres Serrano somedaysmartthinking I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work. Andres Serrano hispanicshouldthinking I think this ['March']is essential reading to understand the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it's also essential reading for the Black Lives Matter movement, so that they understand the political context that they're engaging in. Andrew Aydin politicalreadingthinking I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now. Andrew Aydin blackmovementthinking I think people who agree with Donald Trump have repeatedly made the case that he should be able to say whatever he wants to say, it's time someone did that. But as we go and speak to the kids, the young people who are reading March, we see the fear, we hear them tell us how scared they are. Andrew Aydin readingkidsthinking I think our brains does have a tendency to be true to its own ideas and statements. Everything we do and everything we think about is a belief. Until we get to the point where we look beyond our own ego-self, and to some degree beyond our own mind, we are always going to make assumptions and have beliefs to make our brains feel more comfortable. And if we can get to a point where we embrace that uncertainty and doubt, and be willing to learn from that and to explore that, I think that that could be a very positive experience. Andrew B. Newberg doubtbrainthinking Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. Andrew Bacevich governmentspringthinking«195196197198199200201202203204205»
