The key ingredient is bringing guys in who have character, to build team chemistry, so that everyone is moving in the same direction, ... The other thing I thought was important was to open up the lines of communication and improve the morale in the building.
Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)
A couple years ago we were very excited just to clinch a playoff spot because we hadn't been there. But back then we also didn't go in thinking we just wanted to have fun we wanted to win a series. This year we start just wanting to win one series.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
I took one look at him and I thought, 'Now, there's a young man who every mother on the jury will love,' ... Years later, that's proven to be true. ... He's a plain, honest person that juries instinctively trust - and actually, so do judges.
My first thought was to quit the race because it was hurting so much. Then I thought 'there's no way I can do that because people have come to see me here and the workers have been working day and night to prepare the course'.
Someone with a millionaire mindset is willing to explore opportunities. Most people become paralyzed by the thought of taking action. The millionaire mindset is uncomfortable with inaction. Any self-made millionaire listens for opportunity. The average person listens for what's wrong and why something won't work.
I couldn't believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can't be true, because I'm a radical feminist. But it was. So I thought I'd better look at what was going on beneath this obsession.
We felt this time we took a bit of a leaf out of Lance Armstrong's book. They looked at a bit of video of his mental preparation ... I think the boys got a little bit out of that sort of thinking.
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
The life before it,
Dost thou remember aught,
What terrors shivered o'er it
Born from the hell of thought?
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
I thought, 'Well, why don't I get some of the women who I've had open up for me before and some artists that I really admire and respect. Let's ask them to do a few shows.'
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
As soon as we thought it would really be funny to have a fish for a gym coach, it popped in our heads, she's gotta have a really gruff voice because she's a gym coach. The first thing that came to mind was Brian Doyle Murray and we thought, well let's see if he'd be interested, and he said yes.
There's a lot of truth to that. It's not a thinking game. Once you get out there, you've got to know what to do and you just play. You can't get out there and try to analyze everything.
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
We did what we thought was best at that time and given the fact that we did not have a specific bill in front of us. In the future I'll be very specific about what I want a bill to contain.
There was a lot of sensing that there are false positives and this could be one. But we couldn't kind of bet on that and say, 'Ah, gee, we guessed wrong.' We went with what we thought were the proper procedures and then backed off of that, when we found out where we are right now.
Almost anybody could save a few thousand dollars in taxes, ... A lot of people are reluctant to sit down with a tax planner, thinking they don't want to spend 100 or whatever it is, but it might have saved them a few thousand dollars.
We knew that North Carolina would be there near the top, but would be young. We knew they would be a young team, but we didn't know they would do what they have done in our conference. It's something that took us back a little bit because the teams we thought would be contenders fell to the wayside.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
Few have at once both thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.
It was a gut check. I thought, 'Let's assume the market comes back and we actually survive this. What will the fruits of survival be.
It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
I really put a lot of thinking into dominating this game, getting the team going and winning. I think the older guys put it on themselves to win this game. I think we're tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. They might say, You're talented, but you're not tough. You can't have both. You're going to be too good if you have both.' I think a lot of our guys are tough physical and mentally.
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
I know what you're thinking, punk. He just threw three straight split-fingered fastballs at the knees. Does he have any left Well, to tell you the truth in all the excitement, I kind of lost track myself...
I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun.
In the old culture, the old way of thinking, a rule broken in certain situations was not called. The difference is our guys see it and they call it, regardless of the situation. Do that, you have consistency if you don't, you fall back the other way and it's clutch and grab again.
What we wanted to do was make sure we were doing the very best we could at providing indicative, realistic information to make sure that everybody understood what was happening before 930 in the morning. This was something we thought was beneficial to the public which was the real impetus to do this.
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
It's a day to remember. It seems to me (to be) the natural continuation, after much thought.
Here we got a high school student doing something that's really a smart move on his part. I just want to say his smart thinking was able to drive the bus safely, get to a safe stop and take care of the 11 other students on the bus.
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
It wasn't even close to a trip. I saw him (extend), and I thought, 'What just happened' I turned to the guy (sitting) next to me and said, 'Did you see that' And then, we went and got the conductor.
It was not as bad as we thought, ... There were not a lot of contaminants.
IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but 'pervades and regulates the whole'.
Tonight we got some breaks around the net, which I thought was really important. We hadn't been getting those in the previous games. Tonight we got a little bit of luck and we needed it.
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.