Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about.

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KELLY JONES She seems to work in one mode, and that is attack mode.
LARRY STILLMAN

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JAY ROCKEFELLER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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E.J. PATTEN

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ISLA FISHER

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ROBERT M. PIRSIG We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects,...
JOKO BECK Investors tend to compare one to the other and invariably that comparison is not favorable for Netwo...
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ERNIE ELS Companies are hiring, but they're only hiring in a kicking and screaming mode. They explore all othe...
ANTHONY CHAN The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed an...
CARL HONORE We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in ...
ROY AMARA What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one ...
BRIAN ENO Too often, people in federal agencies tend to be somewhat insular and underestimate the need to enga...
DANIEL TROY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA We are out of the eradication mode. There is too much canker. We're in suppression mode, and most of...
JAY CLARK It's all about recovery, reconstruction and new construction. We're still in recovery mode and the c...
GEORGE TOUART I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cul...
VIGGO MORTENSEN [Murray] never pushes anything. ... The smallest reactions are so expressive and complete. People ar...
JIM JARMUSCH Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
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CARRIE PRESTON I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situat...
EDWARD ZWICK It's easy to think about what would have happened if Hurricane Charley didn't hit. But it did. And n...
BARNEY DUFFY I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around th...
DREW CAREY When you do not have your clear definition of what success looks like, you tend to feel unsuccessful...
ROSETTE MUGIDDE WAMAMBE I decided to use black-and-white for the film, because that is the image of adolescence to me. We se...
FERNANDO EIMBCKE I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we cons...
AUBREY O'DAY We are very much in listening mode and we are keen to hear what people think of these proposals.
DAVID ROBERTSON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD We had some trepidation whether or not we wanted to do it because we had been in the mode of doing t...
ERIC SMITHEY I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what...
JAMES P. GORMAN People tend to work more in Asia than other regions of the world.
DIANE CRISPELL It seems like we're almost still in spring training mode because of all the other stuff and not the ...
A.J. PIERZYNSKI Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the ef...
WALTER LIPPMANN I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
JOHN STUART MILL I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
DANIEL CLOWES I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outsi...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right pl...
LARRY ELLISON Guys started to feel the pressure. And then we were playing less in the attacking mode, and you can'...
CHRIS MACK I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or w...
DAVEED DIGGS Are you indoctrinated?
Think of anything you believe in be it religious or social, like economi...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and eco...
BILL MCKIBBEN I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
CHRIS CORNELL As productivity slows, wage costs tend to rise -- one has an inverse relation to the other.
CHARLES LIEBERMAN You set the tone of the conversation in a positive mode, and that is really what counts.
NANCY FRIEDMAN I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.
MATT MCGORRY Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
JOYCE MEYER The more positive you feel about yourself, the less anxious you feel - and will tend to stutter less...
AMY JOHNSON Four or five years ago, the U.S. was very much in the mode of urging other countries to abide by dec...
GARY HUFBAUER We arrived in rescue mode, not recovery mode,
ANDREW MILLER In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from &...
CASSANDRA CLARE Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observatio...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
VAL KILMER The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring ...
HENRY MAYHEW I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with...
GARTH ENNIS I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrende...
SHARON SALZBERG We have a lot of parents in survival mode, but they're doing all they can to get their child the pro...
HELEN SMITH The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. T...
B. R. AMBEDKAR Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or hersel...
CHRISTOS YANNARAS I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I s...
SCOTT WEILAND We have played with each other and against each other since high school and have begun to learn each...
PAUL RABIL If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'...
MAIA MITCHELL I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS Cats tend to stalk and pounce, so he's trying to do that as well as play with her. With dogs, they t...
AUTUMN NELSON People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
CAT POWER When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
ANTHONY ROBBINS Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from...
ELEANOR CATTON Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alt...
IAN WATSON We are still in the search and rescue mode.
AJ HOLLOWAY People have been concerned that Intel's margins are in contraction mode, so what they say about that...
BEN HALLIBURTON We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
IAN HART Women leaders, no matter what party, tend to introduce more leadership around such things as domesti...
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ALEX TIZON They have parking and, unlike other buildings, they do tend to lend themselves to conversions.
ANDREW DOLLINGER If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ances...
GEORGE SAUNDERS It's very hard, because you feel like you don't want to mess up the rhythm of the team. When you wor...
BARBARA TURNER Given all the other spending we're having to do for homeland defense and the military, my suspicion ...
PAUL KASRIEL I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to ...
BOB BEAUPREZ I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode.
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ROBERT M. HENSEL It only takes but one seed of peace, to create a forrest.
ROBERT M. HENSEL It only takes but a second to show ignorance, but an entire lifetime to present wisdom.
ROBERT M. HENSEL I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
ROBERT M. HENSEL I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choo...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY "ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL" - In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Tear down this wall".
ROBERT M. HENSEL To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to c...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagre...
ROBERT M. GATES Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went i...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the bre...
ROBERT M. DRAKE One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.&...
ROBERT M. GATES To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.
ROBERT M. DRAKE We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passio...
ROBERT M. DRAKE The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re saf...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make m...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
ROBERT M. DRAKE How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an oc...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.
ROBERT M. DRAKE With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.
ROBERT M. DRAKE These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the si...
ROBERT M. PERSIG Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphem...
ROBERT M. PRICE But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptab...
ROBERT M. PRICE The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he live...
ROBERT M. PRICE But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief...
ROBERT M. PRICE I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than ...
ROBERT M. PRICE Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about.

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Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about.

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