Digital Thinking Quotes

The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve. ~ Pearl Zhu

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software. ~ Pearl Zhu

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm. ~ Jack White

Ecosystem thinking is systematic thinking about ecosystem and environment. ~ Pearl Zhu

The problem of "Command-Control is that you can control people's behavior, but not their mind. ~ Pearl Zhu

Speaking the unspeakable. As a leader, you need to not just listen to what's being said, but more importantly, what's not being said. ~ Pearl Zhu

Focus on the part and the whole at the same time. ~ Pearl Zhu

We all belong to the C Generation-the connecting generation in the digital age. ~ Pearl Zhu

Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking. ~ Pearl Zhu

There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up." ~ Bruce Willis

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it. ~ J.D. Salinger

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. ~ Hermann Hesse

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist. ~ Rainn Wilson

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think "harder" via different thought processes. ~ Pearl Zhu

There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking. ~ Rawi Hage

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. ~ Augustus Toplady

I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness. ~ Mike Tyson

On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is
simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it. ~ Rene Descartes

As I went about my work then as a young woman, and still now when I am old, Grandmam has been often close to me in my thoughts. And again I come to the difficulty of finding words. It is hard to say what it means to be at work and thinking of a person you loved and love still who did that same work before you and who taught you to do it. It is a comfort ever and always, like hearing the rhyme come when you are singing a song. ~ Wendell Berry

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. ~ Chuck Close

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. ~ Daniel Kahneman

Organize and execute around priorities. ~ Stephen Covey

Stop thinking of failing. ~ Benjamin Carson

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors. ~ Antonio Perez

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive. ~ John Shelby Spong

I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it. ~ Morgan Freeman

This is a Personal Poem

My self's self is thinking about itself.
Trying to sell its self a new self.

Don't worry, reader,
I'm not trying to fool you with language,

I have eyes to do that with.
I have forgotten our history,

I have forgotten how we met.
Reader, are you upset at how fast we're moving?

I'm likely with you in your bed,
between your hands, somewhere

in your mouth before
whatever it is you'll say next.

Say yes and now and love too.
Say what did Judith Butler say when saying,

" … one is undone, in the face of the other,
by the touch, by the scent, by the feel,

by the prospect of the touch,
by the memory of the feel."

I want to know you, reader.
I want to know a lot of things.

Can we ever truly forget about ourselves?
Is every self a self that makes itself available to love?

Like death. And its kind availability.
Like language, reader,

would we still be so unhappy if we could escape it?
To name the namelessness that is love,

in what we read, and what we see,
and what are feelings really?

Facts or flaws,
or something tells me now

that I must leave you, reader.
It's not you, it's me.

We guess at why things end,
we ruin things, we start and stall,

and all all all we do
is want. ~ Alex Dimitrov

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower. ~ Katharine Hepburn

To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth. ~ Jane Wagner

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night - there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down. ~ Bob Lutz

I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for. ~ Jeremy Hunt

To no longer be able to abide the comfort of human contact. How did he stand it? No wonder he was so very remote. How could warmth touch your heart when it wasn't even allowed near your skin?
It could have been regret that softened his features, but it was impossible for her to tell. "You're thinking of Mackenzie," he murmured.
Ashamed that she'd been thinking of Blackwell and not her Dougan, Farah nodded, not trusting herself to make a sound.
For the second time since they'd met, he raised his hand to her face, only to pull it back again. "Is there no pity in your heart for me?"
Farah turned from him then, dashing madly at her cheeks. There was, of course, but she didn't dare show it to him. "Do you deserve my pity?" she asked, her voice thick with tears.
"Probably not," he answered honestly. "But the boy I once was might have. ~ Kerrigan Byrne

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. ~ David Hockney

I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet. ~ Eric Whitacre

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way. ~ Ella Fitzgerald

I came away with the impression that this guy was either the most forward-thinking finance expert on the planet, or a crack smoker who simply placed his hands on the keyboard, attached electric stimuli to his genitalia, flipped the switch, and started typing. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big. ~ George Carlin