• A.: (Singing) I was sippin' on a Rubicon thinking about (unintelligible) revolution, cutting up the coupons, saving for a telephone.

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  • But things pick up when the adult Tony (also played by Ogata), a technical illustrator who has grown up thinking nothing of his isolated existence, meets Eiko (Rie Miyazawa), a sweet young woman with an insatiable lust for couture clothing.

    NEWYORKER: Tony Takitani

  • Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).

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  • It is as if they can see ahead of the curve and understand the knock-on effects that no one else is thinking about (yet) in a positive, determined and confident way.

    FORBES: Essential Skills Lacking in C-Suite Leaders

  • Instead of fantasizing about catastrophes (running out of oil) and miracles (a rapid transition to solar power), our energy thinking needs to emphasize the achievable and the incremental.

    CNN: 'Peak oil' doomsayers proved wrong

  • So if you haven't filed your taxes yet, but you're thinking about buying a house -- (laughter) -- you can request a six-month extension until October 15th, and claim the credit before then. (Applause.) Or if you've already filed your taxes, or you wish to do so before April 15th, you can just amend your form later this year after you've bought your home and get your money then.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

  • Timberlake told the New MySpace (a site he co-owns) that he envisioned a few legends when he started thinking about touring with the man who is arguably one of the biggest stars in music.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Invariably, people especially if you are on the far side of 35 begin their job search (consciously or un) thinking they are entering into a permanently life altering experience.

    FORBES: Looking For A Job? Here's One Simple Way To Make It Less Stressful.

  • To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).

    FORBES: The Chinese Strategy to Recapture Their Best and Brightest From America

  • With a window of less than three months before the Obama Administration takes office, it's time to clear the decks and acknowledge realities that have been dangerously clouded by the wishful thinking of the left and a misleading National Intelligence Estimate (NIE).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: About that NIE...

  • It mattered because of all the hard work and money I invested in my studies thinking a good job awaited me. (Instead I found a pile of dirty dishes and a small tip.) But it was better than being on the unemployment line collecting benefits.

    FORBES: Coming To Terms With Underemployment

  • Not long after that era, the newspaper industry had other forward-thinking businessmen (yes, sometimes ingenuity was a matter of economic survival).

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  • It may be the only instance in modern life where our thinking is so uniformly medieval (I say this in a nice way).

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  • By staying open-minded and flexible in his thinking, he was able to move to a market niche (education) that his organization was particularly well suited for.

    FORBES: Lead Like Ignatius

  • For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.

    BBC: Group of Juna Sanyasini Akhara dancing in a ring

  • Most entrepreneurs (myself included) are type A personalities who are always thinking about the next big thing or problem in their companies.

    FORBES: Perspective: A Powerful Tool for Entrepreneurs

  • When thinking of a romantic song, most think of something in Spanish (34%), followed by French (29%), English (17%) and then Italian (9%).

    FORBES: Valentine's Day: For Love -- And Money

  • Many viruses are triggered when an unsuspecting user clicks on an attachment (often Visual Basic), thinking it's something nice from a friend or colleague.

    CNN: Technology - Analysis: Understanding viruses

  • Addressing the camera and dipping into a staged series of flashbacks (otherwise known as wishful thinking), Zahedi describes his cracked marriages and his fixation with hookers.

    NEWYORKER: I Am a Sex Addict

  • He has long been famous for thinking that species appear suddenly (at least, by a geologist's standards), are stable for most of their existence, and then disappear by extinction or splitting into daughters.

    ECONOMIST: A master of evolution takes a last long look at Darwin

  • Fazle Hussain and Michael Goldshtik, of the University of Houston, in Texas, have taken this thinking much further, and built (with the help of their students) a prototype of an engine with a liquid piston.

    ECONOMIST: An engine made of water

  • Thinking (and the UNHCR's job) broadened under Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, who managed in his time (2001-2005) as head of the agency to breathe new life into some old buzzwords: repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation.

    ECONOMIST: Repatriating refugees

  • The first case (Chamberlain) was optimism supported by wishful thinking, as useful as buying a lottery ticket to fend off bankruptcy.

    CNN: Is optimism really good for you?

  • Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.

    FORBES: Most People Don't Know Their Business (so asking them about it is useless)

  • It was such thinking (drilled into young officers early on) that led the generals to enshrine a right to intervene in the regulations that they drafted for themselves in the 1980s.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey and its army

  • The Nazis did catch her (thinking she was a small cog, not the linchpin of the rescue scheme) but did not find the files, secreted in a friend's armpit.

    ECONOMIST: Irena Sendler

  • More importantly, cyber-doom scenarios were and are symptomatic of a tendency towards precautionary thinking that focuses on the possible (or merely imaginable) at the expense of the probable or already occurring.

    FORBES: Of Cyber Doom, Dots, and Distractions

  • This line of thinking ignores the principle of indirectness (or obliquity), which shows that in a complex interactive environment, a direct focus on a single goal can elicit reactions which tend to prevent the achievement of that goal.

    FORBES: Is Delighting The Customer Profitable?

  • The mullahs could be forgiven for thinking they are entitled to have a senior U.S. official (past or present) turn up in Tehran, holding out the prospect of better relations and promising to take back to Washington any demands the Iranian regime might convey.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Snakes in the grass

  • I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event

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