"Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to chooseÂ how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Mean Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.”
“Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.”
“I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?”
“When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.”

Source : "The Miracle of the Atonement". C. Scott Grow's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.
“Turkey has, of course, the right to protect itself against terrorism, against attacks, but I expect it to be done in a way which is in accordance with the rule of law, democratic values. And that is something I have expressed several times in meetings with the Turkish leaders.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.”
“I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.”

Source : "Freddie Highmore Interview - The Spiderwick Chronicles". Press day interview, collider.com. February 12, 2008.
“I want to win football games.”

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