“I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.” PeopleWorldNeedsMayI CanHelpingLeftFocusAmountNormalOrdinarySmokingOrdinary PeopleDo The BestNeed HelpStop Smoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks. Almost every child, by the age of 13, has seen pornography. That's clearly different. It used to be really hard or really humiliating, as a 13-year-old, to access pornography. If you wanted to take a look at a Playboy, it was really challenging. Today, it's a joke.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsLooksChildrenDifferentHardAgeTodayWantedUsedChallengesHugeAmountInternetJokesAccessUsed To BePornographyClicksHumiliatingPlayboy Author:David Schwimmer
“What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.” PeopleWorldWantWorryAmountInstinctOur RelationshipOverwhelmedRwandaBosniaSomalia Author:Susan Meiselas
“How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsCountryStatesYoungUnitedEducationUnited StatesMilitaryCollegeAmountHigherLowsSpendingEndlessEducatedGermanyOther CountriesScotlandHigher EducationSwedenWorkforceDenmarkTuitionNorwayAustriaFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.” IfsWorldWayBodyCertainResultsBrainQualityCompassionMeditationAmountMethodImpactTrainPerceiveEach DayNew WaysOur ThoughtsNeuroscienceEvaluateCultivatingVerify Author:Matthieu Ricard
“The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren.” WorldLooksAirAmountTruth IsProjectsBuiltEconomicsHotClimateExpensiveGrandchildrenWorld HistoryJunkBeggarHot Air Author:Roger Helmer
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.” KnowsWorldTwoEffortNovelWeekStageAmountBedFinishedMassiveTwo WeeksManic Author:Sherman Alexie
“There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.” IfsWorldStillsTodayAmountSlaveryTradeSlaveHeightWorld TodaySlave Trade Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.” WorldWayMeanPersonsJobsThreeCareersFourAmountThese DaysDownsizing Author:Michelle Visage
“We only have X amount of days and time on this planet - how am I going to spend that time? The way that I want to spend it is caring about the people that I love the most, and fighting to make the world a more livable place for everybody.” PeopleWorldWayWantFightingPlanetsAmountCaring Author:Michael Franti
“One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.” IfsWorldNeedsLittlesMatterCompanyGraceOur LivesPlanetsGoes OnAmountNo Matter WhatWineDecadesEveningSanityTranquilityGood CompanyOasis Author:Dave Chambers
“Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.” WorldWantNeedsHumansSometimesDoneCertainHuman BeingsForgetParticularAmountPeaceful Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets.” ThinkingWorldKindReadingNumbersWrittenPoetAmountExplainingWorkshopsParodySatiricalPoetry Reading Author:Billy Collins
“It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.” WorldHas BeensEasyRaceAmountIncrediblesVehicle Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongHas BeensKidsSchoolSocialFeltMy OwnGoneThis WorldAmountSkillsAnxietyLong TimeEnormousWealthyPolishedPrepsSocial Skills Author:Dan Chaon
“You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsAmountComfortAround The WorldMassiveDiscomfort Author:Lupe Fiasco
“hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.” IfsWorldHas BeensProblemEconomyCuttingGrowingAmountTaxesAround The WorldCarbonDumpCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US.” WorldMeanHomeFunPerspectiveAmountProjectsFairsChaosIncludingConstructionToddlerUnder Construction Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think what we need is better understanding of how to do risk analysis of a CDO, but that they still can perform a very valuable function because they can aggregate these risks and pass them around so that mortgages or other kinds of loans can be packaged and sold to investors all over the world, who in most times, would justify a small amount of each one.” ThinkingWorldNeedsKindStillsUnderstandingRiskAmountFunctionValuableAnalysisJustifyInvestorsLoanMortgageSmall Amounts Author:Robert F. Engle
“I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.” WorldCertainOpportunityFeltResponsibilityThis WorldAmountDaughterMy Daughter Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.” IfsWorldHumansHas BeensEnoughTodayUsedWaterAnimalAmountTenPercentRaisesRaisedExtraordinaryHungryMeatFedsVegetablesGrainDestinedStarvingCropsWorld TodaySlaughterLivestock Author:Sharon Gannon
“Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.” WorldHeartFactsChoicesAnimalAmountDiseaseHighestDinnerFatsMeatNutritionJournalDwellingShort LifeArcticHeart DiseaseClinicalsLife SpanIncidenceOsteoporosis Author:Sharon Gannon
“Tipping generally changes depending on where you are in the world. In Britain you don't always have to tip, but I always make sure I do. I have a lot of respect for waiters and waitresses - it can't be an easy job and they often don't get paid huge amounts, so I think it's important to reward them and let them know if they are giving great service.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldGivingImportantJobsEasyHugeAmountPaidRewardsBritainWhere You AreWaiterWaitressTippingGreat Service Author:Andy Murray
“We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.” WorldLooksStatesJobsCausesUnitedNumbersUnited StatesEconomicAmountDiseaseApproachDevelopingDisability Author:Melinda Gates
“A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."” KnowsWorldWantPersonsSaidImportantDecisionAnswersNumbersMillionsMinesAmountMetsFairsSeriesVery GoodFolksCampaignsDataThinkerGood FriendSeniorEquityRomneyVery Good FriendsPrivate Equity Author:Ted Cruz
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.” WorldMeanMadeSidesMiddleArmsAmountEastDisasterViolentEnormousSecureDesperateMiddle EastDealerLibyaUnleashedArmament Author:Jill Stein
“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesImportantPhilosophyWould BeLastsPoliticalNaturalAmountDisciplineMajorsConsequencePhilosopherFiftyAmazedJournalNatural WorldRedundancy Author:Dale Jamieson
“People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.” PeopleWorldWaySelfCountryDoneFeltInterestExampleAmountObviousBritishEnormousSuperiorsCommunismDamageSincereInferiorsImperialismSelf Interest Author:Dale Jamieson
“You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.” WorldNeedsDoneHugeAmountUnemployedRebuilding Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingMeanPersonsEndsNextGoalInterestingSacrificeCrazyLike YouAmountBeatsGainsFinancialAssFirmHelpfulGet AheadCrazy World Author:Dane DeHaan
“There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.” WorldFeelingsGovernmentPoliticalMovementHugeAmountRight NowWaveEnormousEstablishmentPolitical Movements Author:Tony Blair
“There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.” WorldKindDifferentOrderAmountFairsCompetitionThreatChinaTerroristAround The WorldDifferent KindsPosingIsil Author:Samantha Power
“I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantEnergyAbilityCrazyInfluenceDutyAmountPretendingInfluencing People Author:Lilly Singh
“There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWritingSometimesHelpingBigsStuffHugeAmountResearchMarkAncientSaintObsessedRelatedKicksAdamDiariesAdam And EveAugustineAncient WorldFunny Stuff Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.” WorldWayI CanDesireGraceMaterialsAmountOne WayManifestRelativeMaterial World Author:George Harrison
“If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.” IfsWorldSelfStoriesCertainAcceptanceEmotionalAmountConnectionsSelf AcceptanceEmotional Connection Author:George Saunders