“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.” IfsLinesAreasSympatheticCreepy Author:Jason Segel
“My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.” NeedsHelpingLinesDirectorsSkillsAreasMarkArguingNeed HelpMemorization Author:Robert Morse
“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.” MadeHardStatesPlayPastDiesLinesJusticeRolesSecurityCommunicationKeysAreasFunctionPoliceCourtCriminalsMinistersReconciliationDefenceApartheidCriminal JusticeThrowbackLoyalistsZuma Author:Mark Gevisser
“I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.” HouseLeftLinesFourMagicInternetAreasBay AreaFood Banks Author:Andy Hertzfeld
“I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.” FeelsThreeLinesFeetCollegeCoupleComfortComfortableAreasWingsCornersPointers Author:David Lee
“Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.” WayWellsLongMightYoungChallengesLinesQualityCreativePlayerSacrificeLessonsComfortableAreasRemainsConstantBottomForgottenInternationalAppreciationValuableImprovementPhrasesWorth ItInnovativeBottom LineBetter WaysRugbyUndertakingsChallenge YourselfValuable LessonsConstant ImprovementContinual Improvement Author:Nick Farr-Jones
“Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.” MenSaidLightCertainHouseLinesComedyFansFootballNewsAreasPoliceWestWittyHearingLondonSavingSoccerAnalysisOperaFrankPenaltiesStolenLiverpoolTuesdayGoalkeepersPorscheWhereaboutsAnfield Author:Declan Lynch
“The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.” IfsYearsMeanHas BeensEndsLastsThreeLinesNumbersTroubleCallingSmartPercentAreasStrategyRatePhonesLocalsCellsFixedConsiderationTrendsMobileCell PhoneProvidersConvergenceCellularUtilizingCellular Phones Author:Robert Rosenberg
“The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.” FirstsCareUsedLinesStepsStudyFrontsFieldsProtectAreasWorkersDevelopingHealth CareFirst StepsPhasesVirusesVaccinesEbolaEbola Virus Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.” IfsTryingReasonGovernmentPoliticalNightForceSportsLinesMoralMoralityStandardsAreasFlowEntertainmentArmed ForcesSports Entertainment Author:Margaret Halsey
“The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.” YearsLongArtLinesQualityCuttingMaterialsAreasIslandsNativeHatsShoreChicagoBostonSan FranciscoCountyPhiladelphiaSnobGood QualityLong IslandPeninsulasTweed Author:Russell Lynes
“Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.” NeedsSometimesRunningLinesRolesFocusKeysDiversityAreasOrganizationFunction Author:Gracia Martore
“Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment.” LittlesFilmActorsLinesBehindsEnvironmentAreasRollingNastyCountingTense Author:Adam McKay
“I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.” FirstsI CanStatesHomeEnjoyLinesStreetsHonestNew YorkResearchAreasChinaBeing HonestObsessedLos AngelesDishesSoupAsianBeijingShanghaiDumplings Author:Tyra Banks
“I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.” IfsKnowsLongI CanLinesMissingAreasDistanceLong DistanceShooterFree Throw Author:Chris Paul
“I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.” IfsGivingStoriesWould BeGamesEnjoyTermLinesGrowing UpGrowingFansTaughtTvsAreasLet MeMajorityRadioGiantsSubtletyBroadcastersBay Area Author:Jon Miller
“We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.” IfsThinkingShouldBelieveWellsMadeSaidHelpingCan DoLinesMoralTroublePolicyHugeDeserveAreasCreditBehaveThings To DoRight ThingExtrasMore MoneyDoing The Right ThingFranklinBen Franklin Author:Charlie Munger
“I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.” TryingProblemBlackLinesRaceAreasRelationIndianRace RelationsOld DaysAmerican IndianLegitimacy Author:Rod Serling
“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
“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."” GivingFirstsWellsLittlesSaidTwoIdeasMomentsLosesLinesChanceAnswersFailingCallingAreasFairsMeetingsNotesAncientExcuseCuteExecutivesPrincessThey SaidEgyptTelephonesEgyptianExcuse MeJuvenileAncient EgyptBeetlesSidekicksMy Fair LadyVery Cute Author:Charles Busch
“There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?” NeedsWritingTryingI CanHardShowsLastsGuyLinesInterestingFiveFrontsAreas Author:Cody Johnson
“Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.” KindDoeSeemsLinesAreasSurpriseCornersDevelopingBe KindTrendsCognitiveAround The CornerCognitive Science Author:Louis Menand
“It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.” ShouldWarReligiousLinesClearAreasShould HaveSyriaGeographySectsReligious WarsDemography Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.” ImportantLinesInterestingLevelsEconomicAreasEightRussiaMinistersJapanPrimeCooperationEngagementPrime MinisterAdvancingAbe Author:Vladimir Putin
“When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question, "Where's my place in this modern world?" We have this here, this tendency in our country, we have it in other countries.” PeopleWorldCountryCertainAsksLinesModernExampleHugeAreasProductionsTendenciesOur CountryOther CountriesModern World Author:Angela Merkel
“Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPlayBodySidesBlackTermLinesWhiteInterestingRolesInternetAreasEarsGrantedGrayBlack And WhitePermissionEntitlementPuritanismGray AreaParenthesesConundrumsBody Strength Author:Diane Lane
“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsFirstsKindMeanLittlesPersonsFeelingsBitsLinesToo MuchFineLittle BitAreasThirdsDistanceAddressesDo You KnowRidingViewersDescribingFirst PersonFine LinesThird PersonSaying Too Much Author:Moyra Davey
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” LinesAreasColour Author:Edouard Manet
“Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.” IfsThinkingWayWantYearsTwoMatterMightGrowsGrowthLinesRoomsFivePositionAreasEmployeeReviewsDisservice Author:Kathryn Minshew
“'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.” StatesMovingLinesNew YorkExpectationsAreasWestEntertainmentCooksKitchenRestaurantsPhiladelphiaKitchen ConfidentialConfidential Author:Anthony Bourdain
“There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.” HeartPersonsCharacterHandsLinesChanceResponsibilityRolesGreaterPlanetsHeroHigherCitizensAreasAverageRealmsPoundsStakesFragileVillainOrgansSooner Or LaterImplicationsChances AreDilemmaProvincesHeroinesCaprice Author:Lionel Shriver
“Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.” LooksLinesMouthsAreasLipsAwfulNosesZoneAppearingPowderGlossBulldogs Author:Gisele Bundchen
“I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.” WantLinesBasketballComfortableAreasAttackingBaskets Author:Tim Duncan