Their minds, it seemed, their boldness, the lives they'd led, full of thinking and caring, devoid of indifference, habit, servility.
But the playing in general was passionately good, and the performance was a valuable reminder, in a week full of thinking about Mahler's legacy, that his works — self-aware yet sincere; eclectic and emotional — remain uncanny premonitions of our contemporary sensibilities.
Until he went mad in the bedroom of Brantwood, his house on Ullswater, his was a model life, passionate and full: a life of thinking and looking and sharing the fruits of all this plainly, with as many of his fellow human beings as possible.
I didn't think it was attainable because I was full of myself, thinking, "Oh, I'm 19, I'm mature".
I don't want to be going into this game full of emotion thinking about my last Wigan game and all that rubbish.
Spacek: I looked around at this room full of adults, thinking, "I gave birth to all of these people.
He agrees that there are similarities and that it's sometimes difficult to communicate the full agenda and scope of thinking.
And with Vista preparing to start shipping, Symantec felt that going public with its complaints would force Microsoft to come around to its way of thinking — knowing full well that the European Union would be paying close attention.
You just stand there as the minutes tick by, staring at a closet full of clothes, and now, instead of thinking of what to wear, you are staring off into space worrying about being late.
The attitude of my community is changing – people know now that blind children like me can go to school and study – though I think a full change of thinking will still take time.
Reframing: Words to Reclaim (Excerpted from Chapter Three of Thinking Points. The full chapter is available to download for free at here.
