Way Of Thinking Quotes - Page 16

• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Flower, Thinking, May

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• I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Children, Believe, Motherhood

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• But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Nature, Father

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• Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Thinking, Men

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". The Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I believe the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics that is beyond religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Reality, Thinking

  "Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Thinking, Two

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• There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

  Franz Boas

  Men, Thinking, Race

  The Mind of Primitive Man preface (1938)

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• Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

  Jack Ma

  Team, Memorable, Intelligent

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• To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Thinking, Peers, Chess

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• My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Moving, Humble

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• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

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• God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.11, BookBaby

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• The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

  Naomi Watts

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Dark Horizons Interview, December 7, 2005.

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• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  Meg Tilly

  Change, Children, Thinking

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• I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Way, Opinion

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• The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

  Al Smith

  Country, Thinking, Expression

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• The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before… It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.

  Hermann Bondi

  Change, Thinking, Landscape

  "Newton and the Twentieth Century - A Personal View" by Hermann Bondi in "Let Newton Bel A New Perspective on his Life and Works" by R. Flood, J. Fauvel, M. Shortland, R. Wilson (p. 241), 1988.

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• Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

  George M. Church

  Intelligent, Thinking, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Feminist, Way

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with Bell Hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.

  George Carlin

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Attitude, Thinking, Rights

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

  Tracey Emin

  Determination, Thinking, People

  Interview with Joan Collins, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2013.

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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