I grew up listening to Jay-Z and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11 12 and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up but to me being grown up is death stopping thinking trying to find out things going on learning.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found without consciously thinking about it that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically having come from television.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

In our system leadership is by consent not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

According to the Jain view soul is that element which knows thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge feeling thinking and willing are conditioned on something and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that because useful knowledge should be remembered any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges not to create conflicts.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you what exists on the land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application as we do on acquiring facts.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

A man of knowledge lives by acting not by thinking about acting.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding indeed no fiction.