A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”
“As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.”
“As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.”
“As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community.”
“As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.”
“As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.”
“As a country, we revere ignorance.
We conflate ignorance and innocence,
and innocence is seen as divine.
Especially in women.”
“As a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“As a country, Americans have to find a way to keep our cities solvent. If large numbers of cities no longer have the necessary tax base, we have to find federal methods to intervene. If we don't, there's a risk of dozens of cities simply being left to their bankrupt fates - and I can't see how that serves anybody's interests in the long run.”
“As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.”
“As a creation of the creator who governs himself by his own will and principles, we must govern ourselves by the given principles to each nation through their sent prophet. Only when we will adhere to the laws, righteousness, and truthful conduct we shall rise as chosen ones and are greater nations. We all can and we all should as individuals and collectively as a nation.”
“As a creative leader and entrepreneur, we must have the ability to balance creating within the resources we have. It is not only sustainable, cost effective at times, but it is also a mark of an excellent leader to work within boundaries”
“As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.”
“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”
“As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.”
“As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.”
“As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.”
“As a creative, you need to curate an environment that inspires you on a daily. This includes your living space, the people you surround yourself with, social media timelines, etc. Everything you willingly allow around you should be your muse.”
“As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.”
“As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
“As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.”
“As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.”
“As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.”
“As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.”
“As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.”
“As a culture, in the Western world, we work longer with each decade that passes. Ed Deci, a professor of psychology who I interviewed at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, has shown that an extra month per year has been tacked on to what, in 1969, was considered a full-time job.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“As a culture, we love a celebration. We love a first. We hold them high. We all marvel at headlines and highlight reels. But we rarely discuss the marks and scars and bruises that come with breaking through glass ceilings.”
Source: More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are
“As a culture, we perceive men not as sacred or sensitive, but as things to be hurt, repeatedly and violently, in order to test their mettle. Manhood is a prize awarded to the most scarred.”
“As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.”
“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
“As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'”
“As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.”
“As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.”
“As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.”
Source: Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
“As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.”
“As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.”
“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”
“As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.”
“As a customer service representative; it is hard to deal with people who has an attitude when I pick up the phone.”
“As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.”
“As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.”
“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.”
“As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.”
“As a dancer, I fully expose my soul to the Universe with the movement of my body through space.
I release the tensions of the day.
I live life in the moment.
I'm fully present in the now.
My spirit takes a forward step.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."”