“One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.” DifferentJobsJoyLiteratureHugeAmountAreasGreat JoyInvestigating Author:Stephen Daldry
“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.” MovingPaintingAmountAreasContrastObservers Author:Mike Svob
“Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.” GivingAttentionPlansFailingAmountAreasAverageCease Author:Grant Cardone
“Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.” KindDoneWholeCertainAmountInternetResearchAreasEthicalFree SpeechInquiryRestrictionConstraints Author:Bobby Ray Inman
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke
“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
“In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.” HelpingEffortCompanyIssuesArmsKeysAmountCostAreasToolsManagementCriticalOwnershipWarehouseVendorsEstimatingManagement Systems Author:Dan Gillmor
“I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.” ThinkingKnowsImportantDoneWholeLeftProcessGoneOur LivesMysteryAmountMusicianAreasLongingIncrediblesStudiosConnectedPainter Author:Anton Corbijn
“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).” IfsWould BeBlackWhiteSuccessfulColorPaintingAmountLateAreasColourFormulasDotsBlack Or WhiteSmall Amounts Author:Matthew Collings
“I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the "alt right", which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump - this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal.” Has BeensUseSocialTermWhiteModernMediaTrumpAmountAreasFairsExcitedSocial MediaSpendingOnlineWhite SupremacyProposalSupremacyModern DayRecess Author:Chris Hayes
“Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.” StillsWholeWaterChallengesLinesNumbersFeetAmountCoupleAreasRiversBottomSignificantHistoricBottom LineMississippiMississippi RiverEvacuation Author:Jay Nixon
“So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.” PeopleTwoHardAmericaLawWaterNumbersColdAmountSafeAreasRiversVariousWarmRescueRule Of LawNorth America Author:Jay Nixon
“It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.” ThinkingMindHandsAmountAreasSurprisingUnseenVermin Book:Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos Source: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
“I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.” YearsLastsCertainCommunityReligiousIssuesFocusMovementAmountCoupleAreasYears AgoCatholicEnvironmentalProtestantsEvangelicalJewish CommunityReligious Community Author:Bill McKibben
“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.” PeopleHelpingGovernmentJobsCertainWealthPayQualityCompanyExampleProduceHugeAmountTaxesAreasLocalsInvestorsQuality Of LifeKenyaPineapples Author:Wangari Maathai
“You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.” IfsSaidStuffAmountAreasArgumentSmallestMaximumSingaporeHong KongTokyoImpeccable Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.” KnowsI CanLiteratureSocialInterestingConfidenceAmountAreasFairsCuriosityUsersLsd Author:Dan Rather
“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.” IfsWayDifferentWarLeftNationsParticularPlanetsAmountAreasDestructionPressureDown AndShipsNosesDifferent WaysCaptureDozenCatastropheMissilesDeliveringSelectiveWholesaleLeft Handed Author:Robert A. Heinlein