“The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.” ShouldStatesCertainCoursesConditionsAmountEssentialsFemaleRefuseLabourFactoriesSocialist Author:Adolf Hitler
“A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.” PeopleThinkingDoneStuffPowerfulTalkingCreativeInformationHugeAmountEverydayArguingRecalls Author:Clive Thompson
“You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.” PeopleCan DoSupportImpossibleAmountIntelligentPlanningPizzaHardworkingImpossible Things Author:Scott M. Gimple
“I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.” YearsTwoWantedSchoolAmountResearchDecidedMedicalSignificantTwo YearsFinishingMedical SchoolUndergraduateMedical Research Author:Eva Vertes
“The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.” LooksMayLightLinesHumourAmountJokesScotsLatitude Author:Jamie Sives
“It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.” PeopleWayEnergyCreativeAmountDrugDirectorsDrinkingEnormousRejectedFrustratingCreative Energy Author:Matt Damon
“I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.” PeopleBigsAmountIncrediblesImpressedGood MovieBig Movie Author:Stan Lee
“I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.” StoriesSeemsUniverseFictionAmountDisciplineScience Fiction Author:Marc Maron
“Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.” KindLittlesDoneActorsFatherStarsActingBoysHeardCollegeHugeAmountLaughterTheaterTeenagerFestivalsGangApplauseLittle BoysCampusPrecociousOff To CollegeTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.” MenChildrenCertainAmountOffersGoodnessEternalEternityEmbraceVanityEternal Life Author:Anna Friel
“We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.” PeopleNeedsJobsAmericaEconomyCenturyAmountHigherSkillsLimitsAccessBudgetsRegulation21st CenturyObamacareHigher Education Author:Marco Rubio
“This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the euro was introduced, the regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital. And the European Central Bank discounted all government bonds on equal terms. So commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate the bonds of the weaker countries to earn a few extra basis points.” CountryGovernmentFoundUnderstandingTermResponsibilityAmountInvolvedEqualConsequenceBasesSettingSettingsExtrasUnlimitedEquityJointsIntroductionEuroCentral BanksRegulatorsCommercial Banks Author:George Soros
“I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.” WayGivingTwoSelfHomeCertainAnswersCommonCareersAwarenessAmountLessonsOffersOfficeNormalSelf AwarenessManagersCandidatesInterviewsRestaurantsHotelWillingnessOne TimeSeniorWorkplaceGeneral ManagerHome Office Author:Chip Conley
“I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.” I CanBigsAmountBreakfastLunchGet RealCrankyLethargic Author:Mindy Kaling
“I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.” ThinkingWholeCertainHeardHavensTheoryAmountSkepticismShut UpPillsAmber Author:Amber Heard
“I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.” ThinkingCertainOpportunityCareersFansAmountFameWindowWindow Of Opportunity Author:Patrick Dempsey
“I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.” NeedsStillsPlayPracticeAmountMassiveClassical Music Author:Alicia Keys
“I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.” WayFeelsCertainCan DoAmountTenDollarsThesaurus Author:Rude Jude
“I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.” MindJobsAmountLuckyProjectsFairsNervousLazyTake MeDown Time Author:Paul Giamatti
“I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.” ThinkingEnergyExampleWindAmountResourcesReally GreatHawaiiRenewable EnergySolar EnergyRenewable ResourcesWind Energy Author:Jack Johnson
“What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.” PeopleUseBigsInterestWealthMoralAmountCongressBehalfImplications Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.” WorldTryingUseInformationAmountIncreaseEntertainmentHonestlyTrying To ChangeUseful Information Author:Rachel Maddow
“Being a mom has been the greatest job of my life. I am so proud of the people my children are. I can't really say why they've turned out so well. I think there's an enormous amount of honesty and communication in our home. I always tell my kids they can tell me anything and I will never judge them. Consequently, they do!” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensI CanHomeKidsJobsHonestyJudgingCommunicationMomAmountProudEnormousMy ChildrenBeing A Mom Author:Lois Robbins
“Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.” PeopleWillingAmountTradeIncrediblesTricksPreparationMore TimeIngredientsNutritionPeasantsIngeniousCuisineSmall AmountsTrade Offs Author:Michael Pollan
“All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.” IfsHas BeensDoubtLandAmountResearchUniversityDevelopingGrantsYieldLots Of MoneyExtensionsSmall AmountsMaximizing Author:Michael Pollan
“I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.” ThinkingStatesUnitedUnited StatesHugeSourceFineAmountWasteOilStrikesMake SenseFuelVegetables Author:Michael Pollan
“A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.” PeopleTogetherCertainAmountMusicianMusic IsLonelyConundrumsFiguring It Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“We all deal with a certain amount of stress, on a day-to-day basis. I probably smoke too many cigarettes, which isn't a very good thing. I don't have any extraordinary coping mechanism. I certainly don't talk to a dog.” CertainDealsDogAmountBasesStressGood ThingsExtraordinaryVery GoodSmokeMechanismCigaretteDay To DayCopingCoping Mechanisms Author:Elijah Wood
“It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.” CharacterGrowsChallengesAmountFormatArcs Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.” PeopleKnowsTryingTogetherCertainKnow HowAmount Author:Jason Statham
“Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.” FeelsHomeCertainFightingPrideAmountSceneWoundsBack HomeBruises Author:Danny Huston
“When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.” HouseCryAmountHonorShotsThreatFortuneSouthPrivilegeHeavyCaliforniaBreakfastLunchSouth AfricaGood FortuneNelsonZimbabwe Author:Denzel Washington
“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.” PeopleKindSometimesSufferingWealthCasesRichDoubtMaterialsAmountAnxietyBiggerDifficultyEncountersWealthyMaterial WealthDoubt And Fear Author:Dalai Lama
“In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.” WorldFeelsKindHateCausesChallengesModernHugeAmountConceptsWesternNotionTerrorismFrustrationModern SocietyMuslim WorldAnger And Frustration Author:Dalai Lama
“[Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.” IfsThinkingMayIdeasReasonMomentsHappensLastsForeverAmountConvenientArrivingSmall Amounts Author:Jon Fratelli
“It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.” GivingKindHardMightAmountDirectorsGiving UpScaryAll KindsVulnerableUnexpectedReally Scary Author:Sarah Polley
“You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.” TurnsFunAudiencePlayerAmountComputerEnormousStorytellerOld Days Author:Douglas Adams
“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.” IfsWorldWayMeanLongWould BeEarthWaterSpaceKnownJourneyTheoryAmountSurfaceGuidesShipsAviationPredictionsOxygenDepartureAnother WorldLong Journey Author:Forest Ray Moulton
“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.” HumansThreeHuman BeingsFourFoodAmountBenefitsCookingWineGlassesIllnessExcellentCulinaryRemedyPreservationSmall Amounts Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma
“Anybody who comes together in a large group and they all believe the same thing, they're going to generate a certain amount of power. The Bible says one puts 1,000 in flight, and two 10,000, and so on and so forth. And so even if me and somebody else got into agreement about something, we would have more power than each of us by ourselves.” IfsBelieveTwoTogetherCertainGroupsAmountFlightAgreementLarge Groups Author:Joyce Meyer
“The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.” WayUseProcessGoneGoes OnAmountPeriodsProgramOrganizationDrinkingHeavyBeerPotCocaineCokeGetting High Author:George Carlin
“One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount.” KnowsFirstsJobsAmericaUsedMotherFoundBlackWhiteOne ThingAmountModelsPaidSentencesSettlingSay AnythingImanLearn To Say No Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.” IfsWayWantYearsBookSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmUsedCertainFallActorsRolesCasesHappenedAmountDistanceFalling In LoveObsessionFallenAuditionsHeartbreaking Author:Jim Sturgess
“I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.” IfsKnowsFeelsKindStillsJobsCertainReadyPersonalityAmountDirectorsSkillsDirectPatientAll KindsPreparationNot Sure Author:Jason Statham
“You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.” MeanDoeArtDecisionGoneRecordsHugeAmountPopsPoolEmbarrassing80sPop MusicMarxistBorderline Author:Steve Earle
“Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.” ValuesMillionsEconomicAmountCostStandardsLifetimeSoldierPaymentDead Soldiers Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.” WorldCausesWorstThis WorldAmountDespairAnxietyOverwhelmingWorst Things Author:Marc Maron
“My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.” PeopleStoriesLaughingAmountConversationMy FavoriteEngagedImmediacy Author:Marc Maron
“I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.” KnowsWellsMatterAmountBotherFormat Author:Marc Maron
“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.” WayGivingCareValuesHoursSimpleEconomicAmountTaxesSickPaidGenderFlexibleGender EqualityEconomic ValueSick Leave Author:Gloria Steinem