He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

I was thinking about that.

`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

Bobby Joe was thinking about something else.

Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.

He knows that he is thinking about action in relation to a future which can be perceived but dimly through a merciful fog.

Northerners never think about them whereas Southerners are never really thinking of anything else.

There was nothing coherent about his thinking.

A lot of people were still thinking about Jack Nicklaus, the spectacular young amateur, who had a 70 ; ;

But at least it's reassuring to see some teenagers who don't profess to know all the answers and are thinking about their problems instead.

But Victoria began yodeling just then and he went home, carrying Sabella in the back of his head, not thinking about her, just knowing she was there, smiling, smelling of peppermints.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

When thinking about orbitals, we are often given an orbital vision which ( even if it is not spelled out ) is heavily influenced by this Hartree – Fock approximation, which is one way to reduce the complexities of molecular orbital theory.

Once trained and forgotten, completed habits may be activated without feedback sensations that these habits are in effect, just by thinking about them.

Its goal is to effect enough change in the alcoholic's thinking " to bring about recovery from alcoholism " through a spiritual awakening.

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who?

The most thorough account of the spiritual approach may be Ken Wilber's book The Spectrum of Consciousness, a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind.

One can answer the question, is someone asleep less conscious than someone thinking about a difficult problem.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

" The organ of observation and the observed thought process are then identical, so that the condition thus arrived at is simultaneously one of perception through thinking and one of thought through perception.

The cerebral cortex is a group of tight, dense, " gray matter " composed of the nucleus of the neurons whose axons then form the " white matter ", and is responsible for perception, relay of the sensory input ( sensation ) via the thalamic pathway, and most importantly directly or indirectly in charge of all the neurological functions, from simple reflexes to complex thinking.

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer argued that concepts are " mere abstractions from what is known through intuitive perception, and they have arisen from our arbitrarily thinking away or dropping of some qualities and our retention of others.

" He linked the seven prismatic colors to the seven notes of a western major scale, as can be seen in his color wheel, with orange and indigo providing the semitones, thinking that perhaps perception of the two was related in some way.

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Their apparent duality is conditioned by the structure of our consciousness, which separates perception and thinking, but these two faculties give us two complementary views of the same world ; neither has primacy and the two together are necessary and sufficient to arrive at a complete understanding of the world.

• Willpower: “ Willpower is the driving force in hopeful thinking ” ( pg. 9 ) Willpower draws on the perception of our desired goal as well as one ’ s mental energy.

We do this by employing the mental skills at our disposal such as thinking, perception, memory, awareness, reasoning and judgment.

: The supposed conflict between Benedict's and Herskovits's call for tolerance and the untolerant passion with which they called for it turns out not to be the simple contradiction so many amateur logicians have held it to be, but the expression of a perception, caused by thinking a lot about Zunis and Dahomys, that the world being so full of a number of things, rushing to judgement is more than a mistake, it is a crime.

This theory states that the primordialist mode of thinking was encouraged by a prima facie interpretation of Graeco-Roman sources, which grouped together many tribes under such labels as Germani, Keltoi or Sclavenoi ( encouraging their perception as distinct peoples ).

INTP ( introversion, intuition, thinking, perception ) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) to refer to one of the sixteen personality types.

Whatever is feeling ... whatever is perception ... whatever are the habitual tendencies ... whatever is consciousness, past, future or present, internal ... thinking of all this consciousness as ‘ This is not mine, this am I not, this is not my self ,’ he should see it thus as it really is by means of perfect wisdom.

A person who is interculturally competent captures and understands, in interaction with people from foreign cultures, their specific concepts in perception, thinking, feeling and acting.

Francis Bacon agrees and enumerates such structural enabling and blinding elements of perception / interpretation in the form of his four idols ( tribe which involves species limitations such as the innately human abilities to see, hear, taste ..., the idol of the theater which involves dogmas and ideologies, the idol of the cave which involves my personal limitations such as my education, my IQ, my eyesight ..., and the idol of the market place which involves how others I associate with influence my thinking and perception ).

* Wishful thinking or optimism bias – We tend to want to see things in a positive light and this can distort our perception and thinking.

The terminal points on these dimensions are: thinking and feeling ; extroversion and introversion ; judgment and perception ; and sensing and intuition.

ENTP ( extraversion, intuition, thinking, perception ) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) to refer to one of sixteen personality types.

To this he says that he has a clear perception that he is a thinking thing, and has no other clear perception, and from this he concludes that there is nothing else in the essence of the self.

The perception of order arises from wishful thinking.