“Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.” NeedsGivingWellsSchoolGirlOpportunityBoysIssuesKeysRight NowTrainingHotGenderAccessTopicsGender EqualityLaurelsHot TopicVocational Training Author:Gillian Anderson
“I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.” PeopleBelieveLightI BelieveAccessElectricity Author:Olafur Eliasson
“There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.” PeopleLightTodayAccessBillionsRelyExpensiveElectricityLanterns Author:Olafur Eliasson
“I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.” BigsActionBehindsSceneCrisisAccessBrandsCurtainsWizardsAdvertisements Author:Sandra Bullock
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.” CarePurposeQualitySupportInnovationFoundationGratefulBillsAccessScalesPracticalsHealth CareGatesExpansionFacilitateReproductive Health Author:Ruth Simmons
“What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.” ImportantWishAccessRealmsOur Thoughts Author:Ai Weiwei
“How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.” StatesThreeLosesBalanceMembersTradeBritishAccessWelfareFiftyAgreementBehalfSpainExitFree TradePortugalTrade AgreementsHealth System Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I bring people on to the movies to type and to help punch up and look at things. But a lot of it is, you want fun people to be around, to put you in a good mood, to try and access your creative place.” PeopleWantTryingLooksHelpingFunCreativeTypeAccessMoodGood Mood Author:Judd Apatow
“It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.” ThinkingWorldOpportunityHalfWorryInternetEqualPopulationAccessEqual OpportunityInternet Access Author:Richard Branson
“As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.” PeopleThinkingGrowsEconomySeeingInternetAccessObsessionOwnershipAntidoteTippingTipping Point Author:Richard Branson
“I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.” ThinkingWayImportantAdviceAccessNew WaysFunding Author:Richard Branson
“Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.” IfsWayNeedsHappensBritishAccessUpsetCounseling Author:Natalie Dormer
“The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.” FansEmotionalAccessAttachmentClientsMusic Fans Author:Russell Simmons
“If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.” IfsWould BeEmptyTownsAccessDonation Author:David Brooks
“There is an energy in the USA that will have to be dealt with, will have to be acknowledged and coped with. There are people who feel that they've lost ground, lost access to government - people whose quality of life has been affected.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensGovernmentEnergyLostQualityAccessUsaAffectedQuality Of Life Author:Jay Roach
“I forget who said it, but someone said, your job as an actor is to communicate the most honest version of this character, and so the parts of you that you can use are obviously the easiest to access, because you live through them every day.” SaidCharacterUseJobsActorsForgetHonestCommunicateAccessVersions Author:John Krasinski
“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.” WayImportantKidsBeautifulHoursChurchTeachFrontsObjectsTruth IsSittingHearingSpendingAccessRationalSymbolicLiteral Author:George Saunders
“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.” MenWayHumansKindRealityAbleSpaceWhiteClassKnowingGroupsShareMiddleQuietSafeMembersSafetyDeeperAccessMiddle ClassPrivilegedMarginalizedSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting.” FirstsDifferentSometimesPlayCharacterFunInterestingDeeperAccessSatisfyingDig Deep Author:Aya Cash
“When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.” MeanPersonsOrderHealthyAccessImprovementSavingDesertDietsRemarkableSavingsIntegratingEliminatingHealthy FoodHealthy Diet Author:Jill Stein
“The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access to your own inner luminosity and becoming established in your essential self.” WaySelfPracticeBecomingEssentialsYogaUnionsAccessIntegrationLiteral Author:Rajmani Tigunait
“[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.” NeedsSchoolChallengesSupportHugeSafeResourcesMotherhoodAccessSupport YouChildcare Author:Chrissy Teigen
“Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.” PeopleHumansTruthCommonTechnologyImagineDiscoveryMercyScientistStressCurrentsDecadesAccessCommon SenseMessAccomplishmentEfficientQuestsContinuityScience And TechnologyFacilitateMethodologySurpassing Author:Doc Childre
“There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.” PeopleWayNeedsPersonsHelpingUseGovernmentDifficultInformationCitizensPoliticianProgramAccessSmall BusinessBetter WaysMazesGovernment Programs Author:Sher Valenzuela
“The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through - instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage.” ArtEyeChallengesMediaFashionMaterialsAmountIncrediblesSpreadAccessFantasticSpoiledArchives Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland
“For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.” WellsHardJobsLanguageSkillsMeetingsAccessLocalsRetiredVietnameseMaking FriendsWork PlaceExpatsLanguage Skills Author:Doug Rice
“For me, if folks who are watching YouTube can pitch in a bit to help cover the cost for creating this work, that's great, but I don't want folks who can't helped to not have access to it. I really like the crowdfunding model in that regard.” IfsWantHelpingBitsCostCreatingModelsRegardFolksAccessYoutubeCrowdfunding Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.” UseBodyActorsToolsAccessYour Body Author:Mara Wilson
“I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.” PeopleWantBelieveLongWholeAbleI BelieveInformationEvolutionAmountLifetimeNotionI Believe InAccessWhole LifeManagePersist Author:Robert E. Kahn
“Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.” PeopleLongDoctorsAccessTumors Author:John Newman
“If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.” IfsWantTwoJobsOpportunityPayClassWillingAngryEducationalAccessWelfareUnemployedCrippledResentfulLower Class Author:Robert Hass
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.” KnowsGivingUseEyeVisionObjectsColorTheoryExerciseShapesStructureVicesAccessDataEtcFacultyNervesRelevantArrivingReliabilityConesSpecificsCircularity Author:Ernest Sosa
“We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.” WantShouldExampleAccessPermitProviders Author:Noam Chomsky
“Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.” KnowsI CanUseInfluenceAccessGoogle Author:Noam Chomsky
“Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.” WayMadeUsedIndividualDecisionTechnologyAccess Author:Noam Chomsky
“Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.” ThinkingGivingIndividualForceDecisionDemocracyOughtAccessRepresentativesGiving InWikileaks Author:Noam Chomsky
“When we are looking at ideas, we really are thinking of three things. Are you doing something that seems consistent with the patterns of success? Are there reasons to believe you have or can access the right people to make it happen? Can we play a unique role in enabling success? We all have our rules of thumb, I suppose.” PeopleThinkingBelieveIdeasReasonPlaySeemsHappensThreeRolesUniquePatternsAccessConsistentThree ThingsThumbsMake It HappenEnabling Author:Scott D. Anthony
“We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!” PeopleWorldNeedsProblemBigsWaterChallengesQualityFiguresCleanClimateClimate ChangeAccessBillionsIncomeInequalityReasonableOur WorldHealthcareInnovatorsBig ProblemsClean WaterIncome InequalityWater Quality Author:Scott D. Anthony
“I did my residency on the South Side of Chicago.We were taking care of people who were incredibly sick and were really struggling with poverty, and , access to food, and how could they afford their medications.” PeopleCareSidesPovertyStruggleSickSouthAccessChicagoMedicationResidency Author:Jill Stein
“You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.” GivingStatesJobsDifficultInterestPaidFoundationClintonAccessClientsSecretaryDomainTaxpayersFull Time Jobs Author:Jill Stein
“If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.” IfsEnergyPathSecurityDevelopmentIndiaAddAccessNuclearMarchNuclear EnergyEnergy Security Author:Manmohan Singh
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.” WorldHumansStatesHelpingUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesInformationRevolutionResourcesScientistIndiaAccessPoolEfficientHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyOutsourcing Author:Manmohan Singh
“People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and a political voice. It's possible to be poor and yet have all this, but in a polarized society, and one where culture and adventure have been thoroughly monetised, it is a lot more difficult.” PeopleShouldHas BeensAblePoliticalCultureDifficultVoiceInterestAbilityPoorAdventureAccessGoodsArtistry Author:Catherine Wilson
“I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.” WayPlayGamesSocialDecisionInfluencePolicyBenefitsDeserveAbsenceAccessFasterMathematicianRunnersBetter LifeOrganised Author:Catherine Wilson
“Donald [Trump] never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensWarWould BeDealsSuccessfulTrumpAccessAlternativesIranCriticizeFacilityIranian Author:Hillary Clinton
“We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.” LawCultureSpaceAwarenessEventsInformationPercentRaisesPopsAccessVideoFiftyPop Culture Author:Lizz Winstead
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).” BelieveReasonPainI BelieveMoralParticularAccessNo ReasonSentient Beings Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo