Quotes by Thinking I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on. A. R. Rahman nameslisteningthinking These are the Rad instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand. A. R. Rahman kidsideasthinking I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else. A. R. Rahman trainspottingmeanthinking No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less. A. Ray Olpin learningyearsthinking I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. A. S. Byatt colorpowerfulthinking I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is. A. S. Byatt colourrealthinking Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. A. S. Byatt readerthinking I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. A. S. Byatt virtuecuriositythinking I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me. A. S. Byatt importantartthinking I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do. A. S. Byatt peopleneedsthinking On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors. A. S. Byatt starsuniquethinking I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them. A. S. Byatt curiosityhatethinking In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling. A. S. Byatt feelingsbelievethinking I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. A. S. Byatt believepeoplethinking I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. A. S. Byatt venuswritingthinking Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends. A. S. Byatt takenbloodthinking I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up. A. S. Byatt gamessportsthinking I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. A. Scott Berg biographiesinterestingthinking I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith. A. Theodore Tuttle churchlittlesthinking President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith A. Theodore Tuttle spiritualblessingthinking«1234567891011»
