#think

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input? ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#being #cover #creative #creative input #doing

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#drop #i #i think #out #recognize

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#approve #benevolent #characters #decent #heart

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#continuously #himself #man #say #thinkers

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#again #blessing #christopher #christopher reeve #courageous

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#care #first #first thing #how #last

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in. ↗

— Bob Matsui

#consequences #dialogue #examine #fruitful #i

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#another #another way #art #beneath #connect