Selective Thinking Quotes

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect. ~ Unarine Ramaru

You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction. ~ Tommy Newberry

Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few. ~ Moutasem Algharati

The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of. ~ Richard Powers

If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense. ~ Tommy Newberry

It's not a matter of Dad sitting down with his preadolescent son and incorporating 'Don't be a criminal!' into the 'birds and the bees' talk. (I mean, that couldn't hurt, probably. But it's not the point.) It's about teaching our boys to actively oppose sexual violence.

It's all well and good to say you're against rape and would never rape anyone, end of story. But somewhere in that crowd of guys laughing about an unconscious girl getting 'a wang in the butthole, dude' - and the one listening to Daniel Tosh say, 'Wouldn't it be funny if she got gang-raped right now?' and the one reading an op-ed in the Washington Post that puts 'sexual assault' in quotation marks, as though it exists only in the eye of the beholder - somewhere in all of those crowds is the guy who would rape someone. The guy who will rape someone. The guy who has raped someone.

And could you blame any of those guys for thinking that rape is not a serious crime, or even something to be particularly ashamed of, when so many 'good' guys around them are laughing at the same jokes? ~ Kate Harding

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits. ~ Rebecca West

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.' ~ Allison Williams

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it. ~ George MacDonald

I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm. ~ Amy Sedaris

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character. ~ Paul Rudd

I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have. ~ Bernie Sanders

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. ~ Zhu Rongji

Love lifts people up. Love rises above fear. Love shines light on darkness. Love stands tall. ~ Carol 'CC' Miller

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other. ~ William James

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal. ~ Michelle Wie

Being an introvert is a tricky thing. You have tons of stuff you want to say, that might even be the right thing to say, but you find you can barely open your mouth to mutter a meager "hey, guys," without thinking it through ten times ~ Mary E. Twomey

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength. ~ Radhanath Swami

People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus for that. We're discussing things that hopefully people might get something out of, but it's wildly inconsistent. Just because we hit on points that resonate, or people think are real complaints - that doesn't make us journalists. ~ Jon Stewart

Didn't you want to be anything?" said Ginger, putting a whole sentence-worth of disdain in a mere three letters. "Not really," said Victor. "Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. I bet even people like Cohen the Barbarian get up in the morning thinking, 'Oh, no, not another day of crushing the jeweled thrones of the world beneath my sandalled feet.'" "Is that what he does?" said Ginger, interested despite herself. "According to the stories, yes." "Why?" "Search me. It's just a job, I guess. ~ Terry Pratchett

Positive thinking does not work without taking positive action. ~ Steven Aitchison

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

High school's actually kind of boring. It's a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there's a lot more under the surface. ~ Kiersten White

I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair. ~ Lauren Conrad

As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category. ~ Edward Davey

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

The point is to read in a way that leads to better thinking, and to think in a way that leads to better living. ~ Eric Greitens

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints? ~ George Carlin

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance. ~ Derek R. Audette

If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level. ~ James Dobson

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadn't expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~ Karen Marie Moning

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark. ~ Chris Hillman

I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building. ~ Sarah Chalke

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game. ~ Antonio Davis

I'm pretty much happy with the things that have been handed to me already. Seven albums, eight arena tours ... I think there's nothing I really would look forward to besides winning a Grammy one day if that would happen. ~ Bow Wow

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. ~ Alexander Pope

What's wrong with this city!

Like I said, no one's really in charge. Mayor and council are afraid to do anything in case the sorcerers don't like it. So they don't do anything.

Someone should do something, Anya growled.

She rowed on in silence for a while after that, thinking. It was easy to say "someone should do something" but rather more difficult to put it into practice. ~ Garth Nix

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers. ~ Kathryn Lasky

A seed of knowledge exist in any situation. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from. ~ St. Lucia

I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there. ~ Astra Taylor