Quotes about thin
thinking two want
I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking may cowardice
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking europe germany
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking matter reviews
General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking trying floating
I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking iraq people
I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking views focus
What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking understanding president
Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking europe france
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking giving people
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking planning-ahead time-management
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning. Donald Rumsfeld
thinking needs littles
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman." Donald Miller
thinking revolution decline
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution. Donald Miller
thinking people mind
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family. Donald Miller
thinking here-i-am giving
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem Donald Miller
thinking life-is used
I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it. Donald Miller
thinking needs want
I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need. Donald Miller
thinking world
We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it. Donald Miller
thinking interesting waiting
Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives. Donald Miller
thinking knowing-who-you-are understanding
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. Donald Miller
thinking stories good-story
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. Donald Miller
thinking people important
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. Donald Miller
thinking cities laughing
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing. Donald Miller
things-in-life being-free needs
We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free. Donald Miller
thinking people imperfection
We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections. Donald Miller
thinking creative important
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. Donald Miller
thinking romantic-love romance
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to. Donald Miller
thinking people who-god-is
...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other. Donald Miller
thinking organization leader
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. Don Nickles
thinking support bills
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. Don Nickles
thinking world united-states
I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest. Don Nickles
thinking ukulele play
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. Don Henley
thinking people problem
My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people. Dusty Springfield