“Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.” WayFirstsHelpingPracticeYogaAreasTraditionalThroatChantingYoga PracticeSanskritYoga Sutra Author:Patanjali
“Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.” WayEnemyAreasSpotsFighterPilotsRubbishFighter Pilot Author:Manfred von Richthofen
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsTrumpAreasProgramBillsCommittedExtremesTerrorismImmigrationRefugeeHostileBill Of RightsAmerican Way Of LifeSyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeHas BeensBigsArtistCompanyCreativityKnow HowCreativeTeamTalentBuildingModelsAreasHollywoodTraditionalAdvertisingManageAgencyCreative PeopleCreative ArtAdvertising AgenciesAdeptCreative ArtistsCoca ColaCreative Team Author:John Kao
“The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.” PeopleWayIdeasBigsMovingForceHurtClearMountainBuiltAreasAspectWeightShipsSecurePostsNativeJunglePrudentPeruDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.” IfsWayWellsLittlesDoneOpportunityForceStuffPolicyHugeTrumpTruth IsAreasResponsibleAgreeTradeDistanceCampaignsImmigrationBehaveInitiativeVansObamacare Author:William Kristol
“The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.” WayPoliticalAreasTheaterBest WayDevelopingPollutionConsensusEmissionsPartisans Author:Richard Burr
“We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.” WaySaidHappensDifficultAreasTerrorismExpectedSeptemberMistakenExplosionsRepercussionsDealing With It Author:Bashar al-Assad
“As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.” WaySaidMatterLastsIssuesCitizensAreasBasesRegardAgreeMeetingsSouthHumanitarianHandleMinistersNativeResolvePrimeInitiativePrime MinisterVisaAbe Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.” WayYearsImportantCultureSportsPracticeEventsExampleAreasRussiaRelatedJapanJudo Author:Vladimir Putin
“Then there is another area of activity - economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has already been made public that we signed a large deal to privatise one of our biggest oil and gas companies, Rosneft. We know for sure that US companies, as well as Japanese ones, by the way, are keenly interested in cooperation in Russia's oil and gas sector, in joint work. This has immense significance for world energy markets and will directly affect the whole world economy.” KnowsWorldWayWellsMadeStatesWholeEnergyUnitedDealsCompanyUnited StatesEconomyEconomicExampleRight NowActivityAreasOilRussiaWhole WorldGasSignificanceCooperationInteractionImmenseJointsWorld EconomyOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.” ThinkingWayMindDoeIdeasCharacterAbleKingsAreasSuitsNo IdeaStrongestForte Author:Kathy Bates
“I stay on [Twitter] as Jen Kirkman, a person. It's just a way for me to connect with what I know and read everything and catch all areas.” KnowsWayPersonsAreas Author:Jen Kirkman
“They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.” IfsThinkingWayWarMomentsTalkingAreasDareLoudExpertsRudeStressfulKatie Author:Byron Katie
“By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.” WorldWayLooksGovernmentChallengesCompanyStudentsCommunicationInternetAreasPhonesAround The WorldPostsCollaborationGraduatesFabricInfrastructureWireResearchersProvidersGraduate StudentsRestructure Author:Edward Snowden
“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.” WayHomeGovernmentMilitaryBuildingMaterialsAreasStructureWestDestroyedEmploymentGoodsPalestinianIsraeliGazaBuilding Materials Author:Judith Butler
“The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our case, we have got to solve the problem. You have got an institutional traditional leadership, which functions in a particular way, in for instance, your communal areas.” WayCountryProblemChallengesCasesParticularUniqueAreasFunctionSouthSolveTraditionalInstanceSouth Africa Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The public has moved beyond politicians. For example, I'm not worried about them repealing protections for the LGBT community, because the public is beyond that. I'm not worried about them being able to change the way in which we have reached out and provided many more opportunities for women. And I - but here's what does concern me. What concerns me is that they will make some judgments in the foreign policy area, without having thought it through that may cause a lot of problems.” WayMayDoeProblemAbleOpportunityCausesCommunityPolicyExamplePoliticianJudgmentAreasConcernMovedProtectionWorriedLgbtForeign PolicyLgbt CommunityRepealing Author:Joe Biden
“To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveStillsI CanImportantDegreesAreasInherentI Still BelieveBohemia Author:William Gibson
“Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.” IfsWayShouldGovernmentLeftAreasCrisisMajorityVicesTerroristSyriaCiviliansVice VersaDon't Trust Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump is stupid or outrageous or completely xenophobic - staying away from the epithets, and restricting his comments to areas where there's either false information, fake news, alternative facts, etcetera, about Canada.” WayFactsValuesInterestStupidInformationTrumpNewsAreasAlternativesFakeCanadaStayingCommentOutrageousEpithetEtcetera Author:Michael Kergin
“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.” PeopleWayHappensWould BeGivenSupportGreaterAreasPopulationDrivenResistanceAfghanistanComing BackBeltsTalibanDiscardedUnderestimatedPashtuns Author:Ahmed Rashid
“If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.” PeopleIfsWayTryingFactsPastValuesHigherWasteResourcesAreasCapacityIncludingSeekingValuableAccessImmigrationIncomeOne WayRangeSheepPeasantsMedievalReceiverPastures Author:James M. Buchanan
“When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.” WayTryingSpeakFeltNaturalHappenedDoorsStageNeededAreasMy WayFulfillingNatural ThingsBay AreaNyu Author:Mahershala Ali
“Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.” PeopleWaySometimesKidsDifficultAbilityEconomicCircumstancesSkillsIntellectualAreasAssumingDisabilityUrbanUrban AreasIntellectual Disability Author:Timothy Shriver
“I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsMomentsUseCompanyTechnologyAreasRegulationGmos Author:Wangari Maathai
“On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber. It just means that we have not advanced as fast in those areas as other nations have done, and we're way down right now.” WayMeanDoneAmericaNationsGoneRight NowAreas Author:John Glenn
“I don't have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I've done it every way I know how.” KnowsWayDoneLeftKnow HowOffersAreasAngst Author:Winona Ryder
“The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.” WayArtShowsQualityGroupsSceneSkillsAreasMathVisualsObsessiveCalendarsProminentSyndromesCalculatingSpatialSavants Author:Darold Treffert
“The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.” PeopleWayModernMediaTvsMassAreasIronyIndoctrinationIlliterateMass Media Author:Arundhati Roy
“The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.” IfsWayLooksLongHas BeensCountrySocialLeaderDevelopmentHigherAreasIndiaSouthEducationalPrimariesContrastAsiaAsianNeglectedHigher EducationOdditiesSouth AsiaPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsGivingHelpingKidsAsksStudentsCollegeSpeechAreasLet MeMy WayAsk MeEmailGiving BackNeed HelpCollege StudentsMotivational Speech Author:Chrisette Michele
“I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.” ThinkingWayWantShouldIdeasSometimesFactsBigsRunningChristianHouseChurchChristianitySuccessfulRight NowAreasConstantTemptationPostsMinistryBig Houses Author:Ross Douthat
“We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingBelievePersonsDifferentRunningUsedLyingStepsClearInfluenceOfficeGainsAreasBlameGapsFairnessBullshitEquityDifferent PeoplesTrickyBlahMisinterpreted Author:Michael Keaton
“Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.” WayCountryBodyBitsPowerfulSeaParticularReadySolutionsAreasTreatsInternationalNot SureCommerceArctic Author:Kofi Annan
“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
“I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.” ThinkingWayNeedsHumansChristianJesusProcessUnderstandingChristHuman BeingsHealingOur LivesCreationAreasDiedOriginalsFallenHealedGod ImageRedeemedChrist Like Author:Nicky Gumbel
“By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.” WayEnoughDesireStrongComedyProveAreasFinishedHad EnoughProve MyselfStrong DesireBurnt Out Author:Eric Bana
“Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.” WayWindAreasHeatFiniteHotterWind PowerWind Energy Author:Joe Barton
“It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.” PeopleWayHardCausesSoundBlackWhiteAreasSuitsGrayTemperBlack And WhiteHighwaysTantrumsGray AreaTemper Tantrums Author:Nicki Minaj
“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
“Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.” IfsWayHas BeensRunningEnvironmentShapesAreasConclusionSooner Or LaterRatsOur Environment Author:Alan Moore
“In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.” PeopleWorldWayIdeasRealCultureAreasMethodDetermineIdeologyReal WorldDisagreePersistCompetingRobustScientific MethodConflicting Ideas Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.” WayNeedsWorryAreasEncouragementLengthNeed Encouragement Author:Martha Beck
“I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.” WayYearsLittlesDifferentStuffBitsIssuesNiceParticularHealthyMajorsLittle BitAreasMalesDifferent Ways Author:Iggy Pop
“Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.” WayTodayDealsCitiesGrowing UpGrowingAreasJewEducatedGloriousSophisticatedAnti SemitismMontrealErudite Author:William Shatner
“We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.” WayGovernmentHappensLimitsAreasCoalitionsPrivatization Author:Manmohan Singh
“Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.” WayFeelsMovingCitiesFeetBuiltAreasRemainsWelcomePleasantNeighborhoodBicycle Author:Alex Steffen
“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.” PeopleWayChangedSourceProjectsApproachAreasBiggerPracticalsVisibleSoftwareIdeologicalLinuxOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds