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taken caring granted
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. Robert M. Pirsig
truth real thinking
I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.
teacher school college
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
truth science discovery
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
track motorcycle important
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.
thinking talking two
You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.
thinking may trouble
I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
thinking bridges hammers
It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.
truth enemy weapons
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. Robert Louis Stevenson
truth letters spirit
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
talking strange affair
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
thinking superhero today
I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers. Robert Englund
thinking vocabulary sunflower
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is. Robert Farrar Capon
tea safe cups
You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.
track good-times loses
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.
thinking civilization savagery
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! Robert E. Howard
thinking two way
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. Robert Fitzgerald
taken imagination strange
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
two tanks kind
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind. Robert Fisk
trying firsts reason
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.
thinking government courageous
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
thinking firsts
I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not. Wes Anderson
thinking style want
The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.
trying inanimate-objects alive
The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.
thinking space location
I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.
thinking interesting people
A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.
thinking people normal
I don't think any of us are normal people.
thinking leader fantastic
I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader. Wesley Clark
thinking president done
I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander-in-chief, our president, George Bush.
thinking iraq people
I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't deal effectively with the region if you start with the premise that you can't talk to people who disagree with you.
thinking america keys
Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.
thinking long risk
There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.
thinking president riding
Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,