Thinking Quotes - Page 35

• I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Running, Nuclear, Wildlife

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Moon, Space, Hands

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Simple, Years, Eggs

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

  Nick Antosca

  Memorable, Writing, Character

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.

  Nick Antosca

  New York, Tyrants, Forever

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.

  Laura Owens

  Inspiration, Artist, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

  Laura Owens

  Past, People, Groups

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most textiles are created by women. Generally, most stuff that's not in the canon is created by women.

  Laura Owens

  Artist, Female, Looks

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Hero, People

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

  Beth Orton

  Luxury, Kind, Found

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

  Beth Orton

  Ideas, Negative, Want

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

  Galen Strawson

  Mean, Way, Free Will

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

  Nick Antosca

  Girlfriend, Guy, Bars

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Moon

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

  Francois Fenelon

  Fall, Humility, Pride

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• I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Responsibility, Next Week, Years

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• It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Love, Art, Ignorance

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Bridges, Mind, Emotion

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• He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

  John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

  Pride, Creating, Giving

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• Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loneliness, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Book, Men, Differences

  George John Whyte-Melville (1899). “Works”

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• Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

  Esther Hicks

  People, Focus, Brain

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• The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Way, Abundance

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• I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Doe, Election

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• Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Graphic Arts Books

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