“A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.” PeopleLongDoeAbleEnergyAbilityAchieveSubjectsPositionBecomingPrivilegeObjectivesPursueReleaseAmbitiousFree SocietySuppressing Author:Milton Friedman
“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.” PeopleWritingTwoDifferentSoulMatterGroupsTeamTeachingBecomingProgramBaseballSatisfactionComplicatedCoachingSoftwareMasteryFeedingResonanceTerrainNew BusinessBaseball TeamDeep SoulTeaching Writing Author:Atul Gawande
“Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better than relying on your stock broker. The people who are telling you to do something else are all being paid by commissions or fees. The result is that while index fund investing is becoming more and more popular, by and large it's not the individual investors that are doing it. It's the institutions.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongIndividualTermResultsBecomingStandardsPaidInstitutionsInvestingLong TermFundHorizonInvestorsLoadPrescriptionsBecoming MoreFeesBrokersIndex FundsStock Broker Author:Charlie Munger
“When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.” PeopleWayPleasureWorstBecomingCrossesEmptyGravesAppealsFaithfulAbandonedShallowFidelityCovenantBeing FaithfulObstruction Author:Rachel Held Evans
“People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.” PeopleDreamPowerfulDependsBecomingVirtuous Author:Thomas Szasz
“I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don't think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCasesMonthsDevelopmentBecomingSixPropertyImpressionNot SureSix MonthsDoing NothingMillionaire Author:Sarah Beeny
“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.” PeopleKindCertainInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsOne ThingBecomingAdultsInteresting ThingsOur GenerationBecoming An Adult Author:Paul McCartney
“With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.” PeopleFunTalkingReaderBecomingObjectivesFringePeople TalkingAvid Author:John Noble
“People going overseas and becoming radicalized, coming back maybe people have an increased interest in weapons.” PeopleInterestBecomingWeaponsComing Back Author:Audie Cornish
“It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.” PeoplePoliticalDemocracyBecomingSolutionsInstrumentsBoxesConclusionSecureSurprisingBoastBallotsParliamentaryParliamentary Democracy Author:Tony Benn
“I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.” PeopleThinkingHeartEnoughMomentsStoriesWaitingMy OwnBecomingClicksShuttersStory Writers Author:Eudora Welty
“Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.” PeopleHas BeensCountryBigsStuffSeeingTrumpBecomingHappeningsMouthsUglyOpeningBitterRacistLatentBitter People Author:Bernie Sanders
“It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.” PeopleKindSelfRealityWishSinBecomingDemandProjection Author:Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia
“I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.” PeopleWayWantYoungFantasyTeacherBecomingInvolvedOne DayVulnerableTeenager Author:Elisabeth Shue
“Every revival in history seems to be the result of a few people becoming so hungry for God that they wanted Him more than oxygen. Those who have such hunger will not be denied. It's time to seek a revival that becomes the most famous address in the world. It's time to seek a move of God that won't quit moving.” PeopleWorldSeemsWantedMovingResultsBecomingHungerQuittingHungryAddressesDeniedOxygenRevival Author:Rick Joyner
“I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensArtistCrazyChangedBecomingOne DayReflectionToughAlbumsWho I AmReleaseRoughBecoming MoreI Have Changed Author:Ronan Keating
“Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.” PeopleFeelsYearsLooksChildrenEyeParentBecomingDeserveSevenCongratulationsSeven YearsQualifiedCondemnationLone Author:J. K. Rowling
“As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.” PeopleNeedsSchoolCertainActorsClassBecomingProveAdvantageLeavingLegsArtisticWorking ClassQualificationsProve MyselfPrinterLeaving School Author:Eddie Marsan
“So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.” PeopleMightYoungTurnsFoundStarsInterestingResultsStudyBecomingInvolvedConcernedExcitingImpactSignificantBecoming Involved Author:Patrick Stewart
“When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.” PeopleNeedsWarUseDifficultBecomingDevelopingElectricFacilityScarceTransportShortageRubberGasolineManpowerElectric Power Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King
“I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.” PeopleWritingArtShowsLightFoundFunSoundDealsNew YorkStudentsBecomingPerformancesTerritory1960sHippieProvocativePerformance ArtNew TerritoryMultimedia Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and nouns are part of our hopeless dream that time will stop and we will not die. but it's not that way. So, why not celebrate verbs and the beloved's metamorphosis into other people or creatures or places - the same spirit but moving through things, not static.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantHelpingDreamMovingSpiritDiesLanguageWonderBecomingCreaturesTerrorCelebrateBelovedHopelessWhy NotStaticVerbsMetamorphosisNouns Author:Gregory Orr
“People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.” PeopleNeedsHumansHuman BeingsEconomyBecomingHealthyMeetingsDisappointedProvidingMarket EconomyDisillusionedHealthy Food Author:Satish Kumar
“Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.” PeopleWorldReasonStoriesGovernmentHumanityNumbersFailingModernBecomingPromiseVoteVotingModern WorldDisillusioned Author:Satish Kumar
“There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west.” PeopleNamesBecomingWestVery GoodFamily LifeSeparatingDisconnecting Author:Marco Roth
“I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.” PeopleWritingHeartKindWantedSongEnjoyBecomingMy HeartReflectionSurreal Author:The Rocket Summer
“[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.” PeopleUseTrumpBecomingCapacityBigotryIsisBluster Author:Hillary Clinton
“Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.” PeopleWayFirstsDifferentWantedArtistSongFallProcessCommunityBecomingFalling In LoveGet BetterDifferent WaysSongwritingSongwritersDifferent PeoplesNashville Author:Kacey Musgraves
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.” PeopleWorldWayStoriesFormCertainReadingInterestingFictionComedyThis WorldBecomingLateCreatingNotionMemoirRealmsShakesDominantInteresting Ways Author:Kevin Keck
“I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?” PeopleBecomingComplainingHipsBrooklynBrokersGunfightsStock Broker Author:Kemp Muhl
“When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!” PeopleSchoolMotherMy OwnBecomingDoctorsProfessionMedicalNurseGraduatesContemplatingDiscouragedNursingSuitableMedical SchoolBecoming A Doctor Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsUseSpiritualGamesKnownExampleBecomingCitizensChinesePuppetsMegaGood Spiritual Author:Robert Thurman
“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.” PeopleDreamSituationBreakRightsBecomingCitizensOne DayEqualCreatingIllusionImprovementRadicalEmpoweringEqual Rights Author:Pankaj Mishra
“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensCertainCultureSecretPracticeTeachingSpecialInformationBecomingEasierQuietBenefitsTraditionAccess Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsSelfBecomingAngelGreat PeopleBecoming Great Author:Marianne Williamson
“Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.” PeopleHelpingFiguresBecomingPlatformsPublic Figures Author:Simon Weston
“Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.” PeopleIfsWorryRocksBecomingAssNot InterestedGrossClownSusceptibleIndie RockWorrying About Money Author:Justin Vernon
“Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.” PeopleSometimesAttentionBecomingCelebrationAddictCenter Of Attention Author:Mallory Ortberg
“As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.” PeopleWorldLongI CanGoalLosesInterestingBecomingHappeningsUltimateMusicalUltimate Goal Author:Cass McCombs
“Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.” PeopleFirstsPainChurchStageBecomingYeahConfusionTransformingMultiracial Author:Michael Emerson
“I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.” PeopleWayTwoFacesThreeProgressBecomingEnlightenedCombatHomophobiaThree Ways Author:Leslie Jordan
“Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.” PeopleRealEarthChristianTakenLandNew YorkBecomingInvolvedWorshipDressesMexicoBostonSantaFascinationEvangelicalEnvironmentalistNew MexicoSanta Fe Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.” PeopleNextNaturalBecomingSingingSensationsVansProgressionBackupTriosVan Halen Author:Paul Reubens
“The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.” PeopleMayAbleYoungArtistCitiesImpossibleHappenedWorstSpecialNew YorkBecomingDoctorsCrisisNew York CityWorst ThingsHousingYoung ArtistsHousing Crisis Author:Juan Enriquez
“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsPlayWholeLawFunStuffSoundMemoriesRecordsBecomingMessComposerTransformedLayersConductorCopyrightCollagesCopyright Law Author:DJ Spooky
“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.” PeopleFirstsMadeTwoChristianLeftBitsChurchCitiesAudienceGroupsChildhoodBecomingCitizensInvolvedUnderstoodRootsTraditionalSymbolsMake SenseOrganizedAssociationSecularNostalgicChristian FaithAlumniTrottingBecoming Involved Author:John Shelby Spong
“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"” PeopleWaySaidI CanWholeBeautifulHoursChurchImagineFrontsGoes OnBecomingMembersWanderOrthodoxAmerican WomanBeautiful YouTruth Of God Author:Andrew Solomon
“There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.” PeopleWayKindSpeakCommonBecomingInternetSpeechNegativePatternsMainstreamTrollConnotationInternet Trolls Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In housing you have jingle mail and you can walk away and leave the bank holding the bag. In the case of student loans, the debt follows you through life, and the banks or government will turn it over to collection agencies that are not very nice people and can do all sorts of harassing things to you. It's becoming a nightmare.” PeopleGovernmentTurnsCan DoWalksCasesNiceStudentsBecomingDebtAgencyCollectionsBagsNightmareMailHousingLoanVery NiceNice PeopleStudent LoanJingles Author:Michael Hudson