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thinking people important
People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about? Auguste Rodin
taken body figures
Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
thinking people desire
When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world. Augusten Burroughs
thinking-about-you reduction interest
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
trying killing killing-yourself
Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.
tissues legs arms
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
together havens
We haven't slept together. But we've napped
thinking two people
I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.
taken writing thinking
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.
trying bottles faces
My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.
thinking want junkie
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
thinking self giving
Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what "they" are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.
thinking matter way
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.
thinking want watches
I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie. Arthur Laurents
thinking phones cells
If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice. Arthur Mitchell
thinking church directors
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. Arthur Middleton
television habit reactions
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
two culture half
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture Arthur Koestler
teacher art mean
Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling the same bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on a different kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact...but it needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed to seeing.
two tangled coincidence-in-life
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
thinking insanity insane
We cannot unthink unless we are insane.
teacher teaching responsibility
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.
temptation satan mankind
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.
thinking sky age
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.
two half half-truth
Two half truths do not make a truth.
thinking suggestions disease
Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.
truth ultimate falsehood
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
truth ends ultimate
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
trust communication ideas
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas. Arthur Miller
two giving weight
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
technology personality machines
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
thinking play crafts
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film . . ..
technology difficult humans
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.