Quotes about thinking
thinking alcohol drug
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms. Alicia Keys
thinking energy excited
I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
thinking vocabulary made
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
thinking people slavery
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
thinking agriculture want
I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture. Alice Waters
thinking way
We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
thinking care matter
Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.
thinking personality kind
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. Alice Sebold
thinking past tree
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.
thinking ideas people
A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.
thinking people goes-on
You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be relevant. Alice Walker
thinking years people
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
thinking race survivor
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
thinking america shadow
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
thinking color appreciate
I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
thinking i-can knows
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
thinking foundation life-is
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
thinking color purple
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
thinking evil joy
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
thinking people progress
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
thinking temptation peculiar
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
thinking people scripture
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate. Abraham Verghese
thinking judging suffering
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
thinking desire slavery
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. Abraham Lincoln
thinking wish slavery
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
thinking stranger mets
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
thinking men atheism
I think I stand where that man stands.
thinking yield support
I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.
thinking museums fantasy
I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that! Anna Sui
thinking ideas chinese
At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
thinking enough concerts
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
thinking parent mind
I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.
thinking right-time right-place
I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.