Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Condit

I think I am a moral man.

Gary Cole

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

Gary Cole

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Gary Cole

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Gary Clark, Jr.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

Gary Clark, Jr.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

Elaine Stritch

I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.

Elaine Stritch

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

Elaine Stritch

The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’m just sad because I don’t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch is okay.

Elayne Boosler

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

Elayne Boosler

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

Elayne Boosler

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

Edward Thorndike

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

Edward T. Hall

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Edward Tufte

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

Edward Tufte

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Edward Tufte

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Edward Tufte

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Edward Tufte

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Edward Burtynsky

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

Edward Coke

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

Edward Coke

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Edward de Bono

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

Edward de Bono

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

Edward de Bono

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

Edward de Bono

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

Edward de Bono

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

Edward de Bono

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough...

Edward de Bono

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

Edward de Bono

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

Edward de Bono

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Edward de Bono

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Edward de Bono

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.