Thumbs Quotes - Page 15

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Herbert Simon

Simple, Men, Decision

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I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

John McCain

Sports, Fun, Play

Source: sports.espn.go.com

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My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Wolf Blitzer

Wells, Intrigued, Ifs

"Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

Thom Yorke

Names, People, Knows

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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

Julian Barnes

Falling In Love, Thumbs Down, Doe

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They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves.

J. M. Coetzee

Baby, Animal, Thumbs Down

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In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

Basil King

Love, Jobs, Fear

Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

Hal Higdon

Running, Recovery, Race

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You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

Babatunde Adebimpe

Moving, Thinking, Doe

Source: thequietus.com

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Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Dean Koontz

Writing, Games, Smell

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If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

John Newman

Busy, Ifs

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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When we are looking at ideas, we really are thinking of three things. Are you doing something that seems consistent with the patterns of success? Are there reasons to believe you have or can access the right people to make it happen? Can we play a unique role in enabling success? We all have our rules of thumb, I suppose.

Scott D. Anthony

Believe, Thinking, Unique

Source: bobmorris.biz

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The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

Edward T Welch

Domestic Violence, Able, Behavior

Edward T. Welch (1998). “Blame It on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

e. e. cummings

Life, Sweet, Spring

E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears.

Max Lucado

Jesus, Humanity, Tears

Source: www.biblegateway.com

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Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.

Mors Kochanski

Exercise, Hands, People

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Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Naomi Mitchison

Fathers Day, Safety, Fatherhood

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Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

Celia Rees

Fall, Light, Blood

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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

Veronica Roth

Believe, Eye, Voice

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If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

Inspirational, Inspire, Want

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Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.

Rainbow Rowell

Butterfly, Hands, Long

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.71, Macmillan

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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Henry David Thoreau

Two, Luxury, Progress

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Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.

Chris Stapleton

Writing, Mean, Cutting

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I cannae believe you let me touch you.” His voice grew hoarse. “I shall remember this for all my nights.” Tears speared into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment like this…. “Do not cry.” His thumb went to her cheeks. “Beautiful female of worth, do not cry.

J.R. Ward

Beautiful, Believe, Eye

J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.566, Penguin

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his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

Samantha Shannon

Fire, Poppies, Foreheads

Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black

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