“My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of empathy into me as a young man, as a young person. My mom was kind of this collector of people; throughout my childhood, it didn't matter who you were. She was a high school counselor and then a junior high counselor, and she didn't just counsel students, she counseled other teachers and administrators and coaches.” PeopleMenKindPersonsTwoMatterSchoolJobsYoungMotherTeacherChildhoodStudentsMomAmountEmpathyHigh SchoolIncrediblesMy MomCoachesYoung ManJust BeingJuniorsCollectorsCounselorJunior HighAdministratorsGreat Mom Author:Morgan Spurlock
“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."” WayLosesLossRoomsResponsibilityMinutesTalentAmountWasteCorporateEmployeeProductiveFamily Responsibility Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.” LongStoriesFoundFeltTeachAmountFilmmakingDocumentariesSmall Amounts Author:Ava DuVernay
“If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.” IfsLooksKindPersonsCharacterEffortConsciousnessRecordsHugeAmountHistorical Author:Colm Meaney
“A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.” WorldArtMillionsAmountHundredDollarsCashMillion DollarsArt World Author:Val Kilmer
“Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.” WantLittlesCertainEnergyFeltCreativeAmountComfortableWhat You WantExcitementBe CreativeConstraintsStressful Author:Sofia Coppola
“I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!” PeopleSeriousAmountAuctions Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.” IfsSchoolStarsStudyTroubleRocksAmountFairsTeenagerHanging OutRock StarSkipping School Author:Kristen Wiig
“If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.” IfsKnowsWantTryingPersonsActorsAmountMetsRelatePretendingKnow Me Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.” NeedsLooksDoneCertainSpaceAmountMembersNormalFemaleProfessionBoardsProfessorsHandfulBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related to someone who caused some of that damage. I mean, it was real. I mean, there was a reason. I'm not defending it, but I'm saying it was not because they didn't like the politics of the protesters. The protesters were violent in a lot of cases.” MeanWarRealReasonCasesMilitaryHugeAmountPropertyViolentRelatedDamageAntiwarInstallation Author:Tucker Carlson
“How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.” KnowsAcceptingKnow HowHappenedAmountSlipsGarbageNourishmentKimHepburnAudrey Author:Laura Benanti
“I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BeGrowsWillingAmountBasesSoilChemicalsDecreasePumpsOrganic Food Author:Gary Player
“I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.” WritingAbilityWorryAmountAreasTrust Myself Author:James Frey
“We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.” ThinkingWorldDoneCoursesVoiceInformationHugeAmountTailorsBombarded Author:James Frey
“Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.” KnowsWellsCertainStuffPoetAmountDrawsPoolImagery Author:Marge Piercy
“I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsBookEndsCertainBornCreativeTeacherAmountI've LearnedFavouriteCreative WritingBest TeacherFavourite Book Author:Markus Zusak
“A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.” CertainGoes OnAmountCooksDishesCarpetPatchesHousekeeping Author:Jane Hirshfield
“In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.” IfsWorldNeedsCertainValuesGivenGoalHalfFocusOur LivesAmountQuietOkayWesternJust BeingWestern WorldBeing Quiet Author:Shakti Gawain
“I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.” PeopleThinkingWayMayArtDifferentArtistUnderstandingAmountInstitutionsValuableDifferent WaysEngineeringFundingBiologistChemistMit Author:Alan Lightman
“Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.” ThinkingTalentAmount Author:Terry Gilliam
“I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.” PeopleBodyRunningBeautifulCertainSexCompanyAmountFortuneGymTrainersBeing BeautifulControllers Author:Jackie Warner
“Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.” WholeLevelsActingAmountExcitingThings To DoMassiveEffortlessExciting Things Author:Charlie Hunnam
“Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.” DifferentStoriesHomeCertainGirlAmountSettingSettingsDecorum Author:Stana Katic
“When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.” WayLooksChildrenHas BeensHelpingTodayEmotionHairArmsAmountManageMedicationHelping ChildrenHair Up Author:Goldie Hawn
“Buried is the strangest film I've ever done. I'll be the only person in the movie. So, I'm still trying to figure that out. I have a short but impactful amount of time to figure that out and that's all I'm doing when I get home. I won't bury myself, of course... that would be a sad end! And then the plan is to do Deadpool after that.” TryingPersonsStillsEndsDoneHomeWould BeFilmCoursesPlansFiguresAmountBuried Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.” MindLongHas BeensTurnsEffortMaterialsAmountWeightScalesSufficientPairsSatori Author:Alan Watts
“I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.” PeopleWritingWellsArtCountryArtistSufferingAmountMedicineSorryHungryOur CountryCraftsWell BeingUnnecessaryI'm SorryAcquisition Author:Rita Mae Brown
“The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.” DoeJesusMillionsAmountFollowersTwelve Author:Mark Hart
“You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.” IfsWayNeedsLittlesHardToo MuchHard WorkAmountAmbitionElbows Author:Andy Grove
“God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.” LongRunningLawCausesQualityEffectsAmountEqualRewardsLong RunsCause And EffectRewards In Life Author:Denis Waitley
“It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.” NationsKnownLibertyAmount Author:Charles Fourier
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” YearsTwoStatesLightEnergyHoursUnitedEffortMillionsUnited StatesFourFrontsAmountRedStandingHorseTwentiesAverageEnginesUp And DownAutomobileDays Of The YearRed Lights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.” PeopleKnowsTogetherCertainAmountSalt Author:Aristotle
“Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.” ThinkingBelieveIdeasReasonMightCreativityAmountFavorsFoolishBlockReason WhyNew IdeasSincerelyReducingStumblingTime SpentStumbling BlocksNaysayers Author:Steven Sample
“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.” IfsWorldGivingShouldStillsSoulJoyPleasureSonAmountComfortGive MeGods WillMy SoulCupsEaseDrainsThirstyDregs Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
“If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.” PeopleIfsTogetherProcessAmountProjects Author:Jim Highsmith
“You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.” KnowsYearsWellsEnoughCertainPoetAmountMaturitySixteenSixteen Year Olds Author:Erica Jong
“There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.” RealStoriesUseFilmAmountSceneInstinctGet AwayMinimumRepetitivePacing Author:Peter Jackson
“When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."” IfsWayBigsEnergyFailingAmountProjectsDestroyed Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.” ArtHugeAmountNonsense Author:Laura Marling
“Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.” YearsHas BeensWould BeDealsClassStudentsWillingHugeAmountCoupleSkillsMeetingsWho I AmCardsNovelistsEtcFacultyHonoredInvitedLectures Author:Neal Stephenson
“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookSeemsHappensInterestingLevelsAmountDegreesNegativeSellsResponseRelatedCoveringReally Weird Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.” PeopleAmountInternetRadio Author:Jeff Tweedy
“If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldLooksMeanLongHardUseEyeSpecialFiguresAmountMirrorsCriteriaPublic Eye Author:Jeff Tweedy
“When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsMeanArtMadeSelfMomentsBigsWantedSchoolExpressionHugeAmountArt IsDecidedIntentionFedsEmphasisSelf ExpressionArt SchoolArt Education Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.” WayWantStillsImportantDifferentReasonWalksAmountCamerasVideoDifferent WaysDigitalDocumentsFlexibilityGearsLapsesTime Lapse Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.” WantEnoughSeemsPositionAmountRacismMy FriendsExtremesFortunateAmbassadorsAnti Racism Author:Lilly Singh
“I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. It enables me to talk to readers from all over the world, but it also makes it far too easy to waste huge amounts of time.” WorldHateEasyHugeReaderAmountWasteLove HateLove Hate Relationship Author:Pamela Clare
“Snowden has presented us with choices on how we want to move forward into the future. We're at a crossroads and we still don't quite know which path we're going to take. Without Snowden, just about everyone would still be in the dark about the amount of information the government is collecting. I think that Snowden has changed consciousness about the dangers of surveillance.” ThinkingKnowsWantStillsGovernmentMovingChoicesDarkConsciousnessPathInformationDangerChangedAmountMoving ForwardCollectingSurveillanceCrossroadsSnowden Author:Laura Poitras