“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.”

— Cass Elliot

Rolling Stone interview (1968)

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American singer 1941–1974

Ramesh Balsekar (1917–2009) Indian guru

Page 75, Consciousness Speaks - Conversations with Ramesh S. Balsekar

“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“He gets bored with the effort of trying to think, and is unhappy because he knows thinking, or at least “thinking-to-a-purpose” is on the black list of party activities.”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

“Man on Bridge” p. 88
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: I think everybody should like everybody.

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“.. when I see people making quote 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough, that is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing, it has to be a trialogue. Whether that third thing - it must be, to reverberate and make trouble, you have to have trouble and contradictions, it has to become complex because life is complex, emotions are complex, - whether that third element is a still life of something, or an idea or a concept, in each case it has to be a trialogue and above all has to involve you.... The real thing that matters is how involved you are in that.”

Phillip Guston (1913–1980) American artist

Source: 1961 - 1980, transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966, pp. 73-75

“Vertical thinking is selection by exclusion. One works within a frame of reference and throws out what is not relevant. With lateral thinking one realizes that a pattern cannot be restructured from within itself but only as the result of some outside influence.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 32 as cited in: ACEEE (1994) 1994 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. p. 165.
Context: Vertical thinking is selection by exclusion. One works within a frame of reference and throws out what is not relevant. With lateral thinking one realizes that a pattern cannot be restructured from within itself but only as the result of some outside influence. So one welcomes outside influences for their provocative action. The more irrelevant such influences are the more chance there is of altering the established pattern. To look only for things that are relevant means perpetuating the current pattern.

“An interested stranger asked me
How do I see the scenery from here?
I reply
It's how you think it would be.
It's useless to explain
Everybody GO! Everybody JUMP!”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Humming 7/4
Lyrics, My Story

“I don't think you change Washington from the inside. I think you change it from the outside.”

Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician

2007-12-30
Mitt on Huck, McCain, Ann
NBC News
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/12/30/4429528-mitt-on-huck-mccain-ann
2012-09-21
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

“I think when you have somebody who is celebrating their relationship, the ability of a person who saw no problem depriving an entire population of African Americans in their state of the right to vote, the right to participate as American citizens, the fact that that person was polite to them?… And so, I don’t know what is going on in your brain where you decide to celebrate the fact these people were polite.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975) writer, journalist, and educator

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Joe Biden Shouldn’t Be President, Democracy Now (20 June 2019)

“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.”

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