Quotes by category:Thinking

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

foresight scales thinking

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we... by Adolph Rupp

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

sports thinking

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

differences everyday thinking

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

girl self thinking

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

fun children thinking

There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

helping-others children thinking

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible.'

cost kids thinking

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

adults age thinking

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

knowing perfect thinking

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

real reading thinking

Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.

cosmos world thinking

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

littles men thinking

I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.

reading book thinking

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

passionate opportunity thinking

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

kids world thinking

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

fluidity dream thinking

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more... by Adrian Grenier

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

people ideas thinking

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

landscape internet thinking

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

doe winter thinking

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

selfish way thinking