“To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.” FirstsKindSufferingViewsViolenceFoundationAll Kinds Author:Nhat Hanh
“I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.” KindGuySoundAll KindsGenreOutgoingSound Of MusicGenres Of Music Author:Tory Lanez
“I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.” ThinkingFirstsKindFilmToo MuchAll KindsGreat Hope Author:Chad Stahelski
“One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindI CanWould BeLeftInformationSourceTrumpTerribleConversationOkayBoxesAll KindsImmigrantsFoxesSupporter Author:George Saunders
“I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.” WayKindLittlesDoeHappensBitsProcessStepsTrumpLittle BitCrisisSeriesChaosInternationalCongressRussiaAll KindsAdministrationRangeAmendmentsFrighteningScenariosConfrontationStep UpRemovalParalyzedSteeringImpeachment Author:David Frum
“We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.” IfsKindTogetherToo MuchFindingsFaultsAll KindsMutualIndulgeTriflesIndulge InFault Finding Author:Joseph Stalin
“Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, are motivated by all kinds of issues. They're sincerely interested in the economy, in terrorism, in social issues. But the one overriding thing they're interested in is getting reelected. And if they think that it's harder for them to get reelected by cooperating with each other, then they won't cooperate.” IfsThinkingKindSocialSidesEconomyIssuesMembersHarderCongressTerrorismAll KindsMotivatedBoth SidesSocial IssuesSincerelyAisleCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“Obama had the media; Obama had the judiciary; Obama had all kinds of support. At an Obama press conference, typical question, "What enchants you?" I mean, Obama was never challenged seriously by the media.” KindMeanSupportMediaPressesAll KindsTypicalConferencesJudiciaryPress Conferences Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying to find the balance. A lot of that comes from "Who is he?" I think we've all kind of met that dude. The comic book enthusiast, or someone who gets too excited about things, but his own enthusiasm tends to alienate him. I relate to it because I've seen that guy.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingKindBookHomeGuyThis WorldBalanceMetsExcitedVersionsAll KindsEnthusiasmComicRelateComic BookThat Guy Author:Elijah Wood
“There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.” PeopleIfsKindDoneWholeRecordsConceptsPerformancesAll KindsRhythmChords Author:Nina Simone
“When things aren't going well, I complain a lot and get depressed. I whine and I eat and I go to sleep. I do all kinds of things. And if I'm smart, I'll go and clean out a drawer or a closet or go and pay my bills. I do get myself into situations where I'm not happy with what's going on. But you just have to wait it out and have faith that that dry well will fill up again.” IfsWellsKindWaitingSleepPaySituationSmartBillsCleanComplainingAll KindsDryHave FaithClosetsGoing To SleepNot HappyDrawers Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
“In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a capitalist society, you've got to expand your market. They were selling guns to the military. That's a pretty limited market. What about all the rest of the people? So what started was all kinds of fantastic stories about Wyatt Earp and the gunmen and the Wild West, how exciting it was to have these guys with guns defending themselves against all sorts of things.” PeopleKindStoriesRememberGuyCenturyMilitaryLateGunExcitingWestSellingAll KindsFantasticCapitalistNineteenth CenturyWild WestGunmen Author:Noam Chomsky
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I want to defend the right of employees to share the gospel in appropriate situations. Every situation requires wisdom and insight. I don't think it's wise to say, "Share the gospel every time you can". I can see all kinds of problems that come from that approach.” ThinkingWantKindI CanProblemSituationWiseShareApproachInsightAll KindsEmployeeAppropriate Author:Mark Dever
“I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."” IfsYearsKindChildrenLongEnoughLastsNumbersConversationToolsIndiaSouthPlanningAll KindsEtcSouth AfricaVaccinesSlumsBangladeshFamily Planning Author:Melinda Gates
“In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a positive thing. That's why I remain confident about America's ability to compete in the world, precisely because we've got a little bit of everybody in this country.” WorldKindLittlesDifferentCountryAmericaCultureBitsAbilityGenerationsLittle BitAll KindsInputDifferent CulturesPositive ThingsBombarded Author:Barack Obama
“As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.” YearsLooksKindDoneShowsBigsHateThreeLostSpeakGrowsGoneMediaOughtNewsConcernedConservativeRadioNewspapersNineAll KindsPieListenersFoxesMonopolyHate MeNine YearsCnnFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.” PeopleKindPoliticalStuffGenerationsGrewWalkingRight NowKissingGrew UpTiredAssAll KindsRacistPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessPussyAccusingGetting TiredEggshellsWalking On Eggshells Author:Clint Eastwood
“There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.” KnowsWayKindMadeDoneProblemEyeAgeBornChallengesJusticeCasesImagineCarNotionBottomProtectionAll KindsOfficialsHostViolationAnalogiesUnreasonableClingingAmusedBeing DoneCarriagesSeizuresGpsUnreasonable SearchesUnreasonable Search And SeizuresJustice Scalia Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.” PeopleKindEyeReadingInformationEarsSensesAll KindsVisualsVaryResponding Author:Warren G. Bennis
“When you first try to learn to ride a bike, you work very carefully at keeping your balance, and trying to keep one pedal in front of the other, and all that, and all of a sudden, ah, you know, I got it. And that's true of skiing, or it's true of all kinds of things.” KnowsTryingFirstsKindFrontsBalanceAll KindsBikeSkiingPedals Author:Darold Treffert
“My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentSchoolTogetherFormLife IsValuesTermCommunityTeacherInfluenceHigh SchoolConceptsAddMeaningfulAll KindsInstill Author:Reid Hoffman
“Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.” PeopleHumansWellsKindHelpingCultureViolenceMagicPeriodsTransformationSacredAll KindsNarrativeAffirmationHuman HistoryDesolation Author:Adrienne Rich
“I think old school TV shows helped in raising your kids and helped in the way things should be done. Now you just see kids disrespecting their parents, you see kids cursing and all kind of things that shouldn't be done.” ThinkingWayShouldKindDoneShowsKidsSchoolParentTvsAll KindsTv ShowsOld SchoolCursing Author:Ginuwine
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughShowsActionLeftRealizingWhitePartySeeingHorseWake UpResponsePassionateAll KindsTeaVisibleWakingInitiativeKnightsTea PartyOligarchyWhite Horse Author:Naomi Wolf
“Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.” ThinkingWayKindFactsSchoolChristianHumanityOpportunityReligiousViewsSeeingOne ThingIdentityCivilizationAll KindsBuddhistJust OneClashCultural IdentityNational IdentityClash Of CivilizationsReligious Identity Author:Amartya Sen
“We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensTwoAmericaYoungLyingHateGenerationsHeardGroupsBlameSlaveryCrowdsHorribleTreatedAll KindsMinoritiesFoundersLiteralSkullsSpiritedMean SpiritedMinority Groups Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.” PeopleWayTryingKindBigsRunningHateWinningGroupsBrotherElectionConservativeAll KindsUpsetOrganizedProtestNuisanceDonorsHate Groups Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A lot of people who voted for Trump, working class people, voted for Obama in 2008. They were seduced by the slogans "hope" and "change." They didn't get hope, they didn't get change, they were disillusioned. This time they voted for another candidate who is calling for hope and change and has promised to deliver all kinds of amazing things.” PeopleKindClassTrumpCallingAll KindsCandidatesWorking ClassSlogansAmazing ThingsDisillusionedHope And Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots of things that by now are almost taken for granted were heretical in the 1960s. We had anti-sodomy laws until not many years ago.” ThinkingWayYearsKindWholeLawTakenEffectsYears AgoActivismAll KindsGrantedDefinite1960sTaken For Granted Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.” PeopleKindDifferentFormPoliticalDifferencesActivityAll KindsPublic ServicePartisans Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.” PeopleKnowsNeedsKindDoeMadeProblemJesusChurchLike MeAll Kinds Author:Bob Goff
“[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religious background or political beliefs, people still love to sing along with somebody.” PeopleWayKindStillsMatterPoliticalBeliefReligiousOne ThingMusic IsNo Matter WhatBackgroundsAll KindsDotsPolitical Beliefs Author:Kenny Chesney
“I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.” PeopleThinkingKindIssuesBenefitsAll KindsBiologyOrgansPrintingRoboticsReplacementsMobilitySynthetic Author:Jason Silva
“We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.” HumansKindMeanWholeHuman BeingsSpaceVisionAll KindsLimitationNervesTechnologicalTime And SpaceSpectrumTelescopesMicroscopesScaffoldingHubbleHubble Space Telescope Author:Jason Silva
“I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the only thing that exists like that is called a whorehouse... Where you still feel like you're exploiting so I don't want to do that.” ThinkingWantFeelsKindStillsWould BeTodayFantasyNicePossibilityLike YouGuiltAll KindsBeing NiceGuilt Free Author:Jason Silva
“It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.” ThinkingWayKindStillsMomentsHandsCommonAttitudeChristianityCasesCenturyCatholicAll KindsDividedAmerican HistoryTheologianPublic LifeProtestantsEvangelicalHolding HandsMethodistsConvergence Author:Ross Douthat
“In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.” WayTryingYearsKindLongDoeWarStatesChristianLastsOrderCultureTermUnitedDealsUnited StatesTroubleMajorityPreparedCommittedAll KindsCompromiseLong TermThirtyMillionaireUnhealthyThirty YearsBinaryEither Or Author:N. T. Wright
“I want my work to be as inclusive as possible, because sex isn't just for some selected group of people, it's for everyone, and I'm open to reading about and learning from all kinds of folks.” PeopleWantKindReadingSexGroupsFolksAll KindsSelected Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now.” PeopleTryingKindMadeNumbersMistakeEconomicIndustryCriticsAll KindsPreparationAgricultureMade A MistakeCastroConcise Author:Che Guevara
“The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.” TryingKindArtI CanTwoMightAbleRememberThreeHoursClassTeacherWeekSubjectsDesignTaughtMetsDirectTechniqueAll KindsRelateDiscussionThemeAffectedInstituteVon Neumann Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation, he talked about the economy, he talked about all kinds of things.” WorldKindPoliticalSocialInterestingSituationEconomyIssuesAll KindsSocial IssuesInteresting ThingsPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.” ThinkingKindShowsCan DoAll KindsDiverse Author:Jane Jacobs
“The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.” WayKindLittlesArtBeautifulDifferencesWindowAll KindsStreamsShopsWorks Of ArtDisplayAccentsDrainsIngeniousCementMasonryBambooLatchesShop Windows Author:Jane Jacobs
“What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.” IfsThinkingKindShowsGovernmentQualityTalkingEconomyHappenedStudentsNewsUniversityObsessionAll KindsGraduatesSurprisingCollapseSevereCultNigeriaTollsQuality Work Author:Chinua Achebe
“The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsHumansKindDoePainMotherDesireCoursesWishSocialEasyPayMediaDoctorsDiedSocial MediaActiveRevengeAll KindsHospitalsHelplessPayback Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.” PeopleHumansKindDoeImportantIdeasDifferentBodyHuman BeingsResultsAcceptingComfortablePrejudiceAll KindsRevolutionaryJust BeingMarginalizedReally Amazing Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.” ThinkingWritingKindMadePleasureFantasyStrugglePaintingPhotographDrawingAll KindsLive LifeDevotedChunksJust LiveSeparatingJust Living Life Author:Moyra Davey
“As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice. Not just mammoth, but all kinds of fossils from the past. What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that's probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction. And I really wanted to know, when did we first cross that barrier?” KnowsFirstsHumansKindProblemWantedPastMoralCasesCenturyMaterialsAmountBecomingFirst TimeCrossesSpeciesArguingAll KindsIceBarriersOblivionFossilsExtinctionDefiningMeltingUnprecedentedIcyGlaciers Author:Dario Robleto