Quotes about thinking
thinking cooking wells
If you think well, you cook well. Ferran Adria
thinking impossible virtue
I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible. Ferran Adria
thinking jew has-beens
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. Fidel Castro
thinking boots duty
I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on. Fidel Castro
thinking blame jew
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything. Fidel Castro
thinking people community
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail. Fidel Castro
thinking leader safe
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe, Fidel Castro
thinking drug criticism
Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it. Fiona Apple
thinking people forever
If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that. Fiona Apple
thinking looks relevant
I don't think what I look like is relevant. Fiona Apple
thinking feelings how-you-feel
When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. Fiona Apple
thinking bullshit waiting
This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself. Fiona Apple
thinking joy feelings
It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later. Fiona Apple
thinking sensitive-person how-you-feel
I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life. Fiona Apple
thinking generations doe
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? Henry Mintzberg
thinking people
People think that they see, but they don't. Henry Moore
thinking
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume. Henry Moore
thinking race class
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. Henry Louis Gates
thinking self class
The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere. Henry Louis Gates
thinking might sound
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am. Henry Louis Gates
thinking class white
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates
thinking roots racism
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. Henry Louis Gates
thinking black geek
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? Henry Louis Gates
thinking rights movement
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. Henry Louis Gates
thinking people african-american
I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol. Henry Louis Gates
thinking literacy
I think literacy is everything. Henry Louis Gates
thinking justice rotten
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. Henry Louis Gates
thinking hypocrisy slavery
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history. Henry Louis Gates
thinking land cities
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. Henry Louis Gates
thinking artist self
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being. Henry Miller
thinking bridges world
Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge. Henry Miller
thinking wings bird
I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet. Henry Miller
thinking water miracle
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. Henry Miller