Rethinking Quotes

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Writing, Creativity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Giving Up, Target

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Might, Causes

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

  Douglas Coupland

  Order, World, Waking

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• Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

  Todd Solondz

  World, Portal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition

  Ellen MacArthur

  Jobs, Future, Oil

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• Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a more interesting place to be, and one is perhaps somewhat less judgmental.

  Michael Light

  Interesting, World, Might

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, World, Faces

  Profile at Freedom from Religion Foundation, ffrf.org.

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• I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces of production, rather than consumption - they should be producing food, and fuel.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Cities, Fuel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

  Jack Welch

  Art, Mistake, Simple

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• I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

  John Zorn

  Children, Yuppies, Interesting

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• I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.

  Baron Vaughn

  Childhood, Different, Kind

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Opportunity, Order, Dignity

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• Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Roles, Finance

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think I should be here alone to rethink the world, I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Gone, World

  "Fierce creature". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2008.

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• While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

  Ellen Willis

  Order, Luxury, Numbers

  "No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays". Book by Ellen Willis, "Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), 1992.

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• Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any number of populations who already cross that divide, and we could probably point to several existing states that belong exclusively neither to one category nor to the other. Do we use these terms to designate geographical realities, geopolitical ones, or perhaps sites of power, exploitation, orientalism that move through space and time in ways that have to be tracked historically.

  Judith Butler

  Moving, Reality, Numbers

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

  Roger Ebert

  Powerful, War, Firefly

  "Sentai Filmworks Bringing 'grave Of The Fireflies' Back To DVD" by Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. December 2, 2011.

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• If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

  Matt Drudge

  Technology, Liberty, Want

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Scripts, Scottish

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Commitment, California

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• One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Simplicity, Foundation

  "Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem" by David Sloan Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2009.

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