Quotes about thinking
thinking government oil
I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them. Cornel West
thinking people hey
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
thinking think-for-yourself values
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
thinking down-and slippery-slope
It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.
thinking enabling philosopher
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.
thinking trying serious
I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.
thinking discipline think-for-yourself
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
thinking hip-hop hips
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
thinking objectivity ideas
The authority of science ... promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.... Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality.... In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.
thinking people innovation
I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.
thinking ideas mind
what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.
thinking people snow
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then. Cormac McCarthy
thinking special might
It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.
thinking respect-me ifs
If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
thinking forever might
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
thinking people unhappy
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
thinking world adrift
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
thinking people desire
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
thinking race knees
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
thinking play fiction
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. Colm Toibin
thinking rapper dope
I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper. Common
thinking artist acting
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.
thinking silence littles
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough. Colum McCann
thinking doubt tables
And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.
thinking rocks earth
There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
thinking world trade
You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
thinking ordinary ordinary-life
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
thinking self people
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
thinking goes-on left
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
thinking firsts lasts
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
thinking space nucleus
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space Clifford D. Simak
thinking unity may
There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.
thinking earth purpose
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.