I did that because I put my family first. We did what we thought was best for our baby at the time.
I did that because I put my family first. We did what we thought was best for our baby at the time.
He stood motionless, not turning to the crowd, barely hearing the applause. He stood looking at the judges. There was no triumph in his face, no elation, only the still intensity of contemplating a vision with a bitter wonder that was almost fear. He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.
I suppose that's a good question. I don't know. Would there be a conflict of interest there because he was in Washington I really haven't given that a whole lot of thought.
The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you, else you would not at once admit them. 'All of that has floated across me before, only I could not say it, and did not feel confident enough to assert it or had not conviction enough to put it into words.' Yes, God spoke to you what He did to them only, they believed it, said it, trusted the Word within them and you did not. Be sure that often when you say, 'It is only my own poor thought, and I am alone,' the real correcting thought is this 'Alone, but the Father is with me, and therefore I can live that lonely conviction.'
We have given a lot of thought to drugs. You cannot not think about drugs with what is going on in today's sports.
One year later, we surveyed those people who had been added with limited coverage, and there were two schools of thought. One group was grateful, and the other said they needed more. But one year earlier, people were saying they had nothing.
Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.
If we want to possess poise and to be capable of clear thinking, it is essential, first of all, to rise above the confusion of conflicting rumors and diverse opinions and listen to the eternal verities which God has given to men for their guidance and preservation.
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
We have to play the sounds the audience hears. It has to be easy to decipher. And it seems like a simple concept, but it's so important. Not playing live really hurts the image of electronic music. It bugs us when people don't put any thought into their live performances.
I thought, defensively, we were good enough to win the game. We had a lot of opportunities offensively and just missed some baskets we normally have made.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Their zone was really effective, I thought, in the third quarter. They continued it in the fourth and we finally started making some. I got open a couple times and made some big shots.
There's some thought that this can't just be the highest APR. Maybe it's the biggest jump from one year to the next. Maybe it's the biggest difference between student body and student-athlete. Maybe it's a matching grant for programs that are underperforming that want to do better. All of those things, I think, are going to be fleshed out at this meeting.
I'm thinking, 'Whoa, wait a minute, this is too good to be true,'
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same
They haven't stopped it and they're not going to win, ... The thought of their prevailing in this conflict is a terrible thought.
Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
There's a thought that says Japan had a capacity bubble in the 1980s, we had one in the 1990s and now it's China's turn.
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
Tom is an exciting actor to watch thinking. We probably don't need his status from a box-office standpoint, but he gives Langdon instant legitimacy.
I knew it was going to be more of a workload, but it's more than I thought.
I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
I don't know. That's the official's read. We showed some toughness, I thought. I'm so proud of the way our guys executed.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
He hasn't given me any real hints. But I know BYU and Arizona State are both schools he's giving a lot of thought to.
Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. 'Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small.' This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a monk, as a disciple of the Buddha, should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
I was not scared I was just thinking, I have kids, I have a ten year old daughter that walks home from school.
Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
Distributors will send demos so that we, as employees, can try them out, so that we can say 'I've played this' and this is what I thought.
Under Saddam, if you agreed to forego your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK. But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone.
I thought I would put it in there because you constantly see celebrities all the time in celebrity magazines and TV shows and the public almost follows them in a worshipping kind of way. While everything else in the exhibit is more spiritual or related to religion, this is a pop culture piece that I thought would show how spirituality is something that is applicable to everyday things, especially in our culture.
Even the founders seem taken aback. I don't want to say it's overwhelming, ... but I see these numbers coming out, I keep thinking, it must be a mistake. How can we pass Google I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
I was feeling pretty good walking down that line and shaking hands with all of them. Baseball was no big thing to me. I figured anybody could play, but couldn't anybody make a movie. That's the way I thought.
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
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