#thinking

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#future #hopes #people #predict #purpose

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#body #body language #disposal #get #how

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ↗

— William Glasser

#application #educational #facts #focus #knowledge

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#care #i #i care #me #other

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#forms #grades #higher #kind #lower

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#alive #did #done #fits #i

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#i #i remember #remember #thinking #want

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. ↗

— Bill Frist

#congress #forward #instead #looms #policies