Quotes about thin
thinking names culture
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do. Chuck Palahniuk
thinking media age
I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.
thinking light years
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
thinking talking people
When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.
thinking steps firsts
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
thinking choices trying
Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.
thinking games nfl
There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one. Chuck Knox
thinking impact giving
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed. Chuck Feeney
thinking pushing bother
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published? Chuck Eddy
thinking should-have done
Deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning. Chuck Hagel
thinking important asking
There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.
thinking long inevitability
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. Chuck Jones
thinking bunnies bugs
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
thinking essence drawing
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
thinking ideas people
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview. Chuck Klosterman
thinking america library
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.
thinking wanted available
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
thinking voice worry
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
thinking media people
I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously for months. Then, when it was clear he was going to be the nominee, they immediately hit the panic button. I think they overlook the possibility that he could just be a really bad president in the way that presidents are traditionally bad.
thinking people guarding
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
thinking mind likes
My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.
thinking life-is sex-drugs
Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.
thinking interesting people
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
thinking different arguing
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
thinking people want
I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want. Chuck Barris
thinking people looks
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me! Chubby Checker
thinking honey bus
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you? Chuck Berry
things-in-life two important
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
thinking people tease
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards. Christy Turlington
thinking doing-me ability
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. Chuck Close
thinking sculpture stuff
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
thinking realising seems
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
thinking artist people
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.