Quotes by Thinking History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. A. L. Rowse essence history thinking Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best. A. Meredith Walters habit nasty thinking Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes. A. Meredith Walters hung too-short thinking IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. A. N. Wilson tests modern-life thinking It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim. A. N. Wilson opposites history thinking I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out. A. N. Wilson loyal church thinking I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. A. N. Wilson deceiving might thinking I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. A. N. Wilson catholic father thinking I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. A. N. Wilson writing people thinking I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. A. N. Wilson regimes people thinking The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity. A. O. Scott taken fun thinking A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. A. P. Herbert sausage looks thinking We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. A. Philip Randolph eye world thinking The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. A. R. Bernard determine quality thinking I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone. A. R. Gurney country hands thinking If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working. A. R. Rahman wakes-you make-you-think thinking The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. A. R. Rahman music done thinking I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me. A. R. Rahman together play thinking I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting. A. R. Rahman bored roots thinking After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians. A. R. Rahman artist bridges thinking «1234567891011»