Despite terrorist events around the world, rising oil prices and a lukewarm job market, consumer spending has remained fairly strong, much better than many would have thought. But if the economic data starts to slow and oil rises above 60 a barrel, that could eat into consumer spending.
Thought & Thinking Quotes (5714 Quotes)
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'
I am not sure what Mr. Leigh thought was the purpose of his evidence. He seemed to want to have a fight over something and was clearly disappointed at the relative shortness of his cross examination.
A lot of people don't understand what it takes to actually do an entire deal. I've seen people get involved with renovation projects that cost more than they initially thought. A lot try to do their own general contracting to decrease the cost. Then they find they can't put in the new granite countertops because the cabinet guys haven't installed the cabinets yet. I've seen people underestimate what it takes to sell a property. They underestimate the holding costs, the mortgage, insurance, selling expenses, taxes. They think, 'If I sell it for 500,000 and buy it for 350,000, I'll make 150,000.' It's not like that.
Time and space are only forms of thought.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Wright-Phillips is even better than I thought. He's a better player that I thought, more intelligent, not just intuitive. He also thinks the game. He understands what we teach. He understands where he is. He's improving a lot to adapt to our tactical situation. He's ready to play. He knows where to be. He knows what to do.
One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
I cast actors which I thought were very grounded. It was not like a musical comedy,
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
The market had gotten itself into a position where the thought process was the economy was cooling off a bit and the Fed was close to being done raising interest rates. These numbers threw a wrench into the works.
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
The markets are really going to be determined by what the Fed has to say. We'll be looking for more definitive talk from the Federal government and (Alan) Greenspan to get some indication of what the Fed is really thinking.
I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.
I came up here for my first Formula Atlantic race in October of 1974 and watched that car win the race, and I thought, 'Man, there is nothing better than that,' ... I dreamed that when I got to Formula One I could drive a car like that.
Track and field is always where I wanted to make the Games. Bobsled wasn't even a thought in my mind.
For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices It took a second to settle down I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Williams herself drew criticism from Stuart. I don't think it was necessary for us to know that Jeff was a cross-dresser. What did she gain by that ... It's something I didn't want to know about him. It's a minus quality. Actually, there were some things I wrote about some personalities that my daughter co-writer Sylvia Thompson thought were a little strong. She said, 'Mother, you didn't need to say that,' and I didn't say it.
He's my mentor. I love that man. He was probably the first guy that really took an interest in me. I was kind of a hard-nosed player at the time. I didn't care about what anybody thought. He taught me that you're supposed to pay attention, and it changed the way I perceived different things. I was on the way to destruction. He pushed me another way.
It's been a little bothersome, but nothing we thought would get in the way of me today, ... Trying to turn it up, there were some issues.
Of course, it crossed my mind. But that thought was short-lived. Fortunately, it's not (my last play).
I thought we'd still win.
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, I am of no value, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought - so what are you lacking If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
We felt we discharged this patient in a stable condition, and a surveyor, reviewer, thought differently,
Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK Of course it's not.
I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.
Our thinking was last night he was ready to play.
Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginialize people different from ourselves by thinking, 'They do not feel as WE would,' or 'There must always be suffering, so why not let THEM suffer'
You're getting money flowing back into some of these big stocks and the tone is good. What's powering it is optimism that at some point and time, we're going to get this final turn in earnings -- it's buying with the thought that you don't fight the Fed.
The 'beige book' really hurt the market today. I think this report is much weaker than anyone thought.
Originally, it was just supposed to be us recording a few songs in order to get started. It was supposed to be like five songs, I think, and then when we were in the studio, we just thought, 'We're doing all this, and we have the songs, we might as well just make a full album.' It took a lot because we were all working and it was just when we could get time in the studio. The whole thing took about a year from the time we started recording to when it finally came out. The actual recording time probably was two weeks.
My technique in time trials is to start a little slower. I've made the mistake in the past of starting too hard and losing a bit at the end. So in my way of thinking it's better to save something for the end.
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
I think (investors) are sort of sitting on the sidelines, thinking there will be better values in a few weeks. (Investors are) searching for where can we put money that won't get hit in the short term.
The common thinking is When you increase traffic fines, you make money and hopefully have an impact on people's driving.
If you thought, 'There's got to be more,' that's reasonable doubt.
I love helping kids and working with them. In the couple of jobs I've had, the times where I had assignments to teach something, like a safety topic or something technical, I loved it. It just kinda got me thinking, what do I want to do for the next 30 years
Syracuse did an amazing job, I thought, defending our guys individually, which meant that as a team they didn't have to do quite as much of slides or anything.
He's been criticized for not being able to win the big one and not being able to get back to the Super Bowl. That was a thought for us, too. We wanted to come out and play for him. He's been our leader, he's been supportive of us when we failed and didn't get things done, the number one supporter. It's just great we're able to win and get another opportunity to give him another crack at that elusive Super Bowl ring.
If the thought is pure then the deeds are definite to be pure and quite obviously the results are unquestionably excellent.