“I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I'm leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWould BeAgeYoungOpportunityLeftPresidentThirdsLeavingGladBubblesLooking ForwardYoung Age Author:Barack Obama
“It just amazing to me that Timeless is a bubble show, that it's just not solidly in the renew column. I think that would only happen today when we're in this golden era of television, where there's so much to watch, it's just hard to capture an audience in the first place.” ThinkingFirstsHardShowsHappensTodayWatchesAudienceTelevisionGoldenErasCaptureBubblesTimelessColumns Author:Misha Collins
“The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.” GivingSaidShowsRealityUsedGamesLinesMorningPolicyMy FriendsCompetitionEdgesVideoAssKicksBubblesEvery MorningStrictWaiterGumReality ShowsKick AssBubble Gum Author:Zach Anner
“I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what bubbles to the surface. A lot of this was part of Disco Night originally, and I suddenly started realizing, "If I keep working on this because I'm not done and I put all that in Disco Night, how can this be one book? Is it going to be too long and bloated and crazy?".” IfsLongBookDoneNightRealizingCrazyMonthsConstantSurfaceBoardsPrintEditorsBubblesMagneticDisco Author:Peter van Agtmael
“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.” TryingJobsSufferingCareersEffectsPercentLaborCrisisFinancialDrivenManageInequalityRisingGraduatesBubblesPenaltiesWagesHousingLifelongExaggerationGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisLingeringSpawnHousing Bubble Author:Robert H. Frank
“Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsLittlesRealPainStuffReal WorldBubblesBathsDormsBubble Bath Author:Van Jones
“I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.” WritingLongI CanStuffLong TimeInstinctBubblesJournalRevealingSwampsJournalistic Author:Tim Winton
“As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.” WayPresidentGolfBubblesGood WayYou Re Pretty Author:George W. Bush
“No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.” WorldEndsMatterSidesHollywoodNo Matter WhatBubbles Author:Tim Burton
“[The left] they've got their little security jackets and bubbles they live in, and they don't let anything in that isn't preapproved. These are snowflakes. They're not gonna let anything in that's gonna upset them.” LittlesLeftSecurityUpsetBubblesJacketsSnowflake Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the Great Recession, or the technology bubble and the early 2000s recession. There are no such imbalances today.” ThinkingTodayTechnologyEconomySeriousFinancialBubblesMortgageRecessionsImbalanceFinancial SystemGreat Recession Author:Mark Zandi
“Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.” KnowsWayFeelsCertainLike YouPerspectiveWho You AreCriticsTunesBubblesNaysayers Author:Kellyanne Conway
“You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.” WantSometimesMovingBitsConsciousnessShirtsPlotBubblesOur ThoughtsMarketplaceSeventeenMoving InCollide Author:George Saunders
“The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.” MindBodyVoiceWaterConscienceMadPermanentBubblesMonkeysUnchangingVoice Of God Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Think, "I am beyond the body. This body is just a water bubble. I am beyond the mind. This mind is just a mad monkey. I am the Atma. I and God are one. Before this body was formed I was there. After this body leaves I am there. Without this body I am still there. I am omnipresent. I am all." To reach this truth you have to do some spiriÂtual practice. You have to inquire, "What is God? Who is God? Who am I?" Jesus spent twelve years in the desert; then he realized. You must also do some Sadhana.” ThinkingYearsMindStillsBodyJesusWaterPracticeMadDesertBubblesTwelveMonkeys Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived through it.” WorldImagineHavensBubblesCollapseExpandingAnother WorldUnimaginable Author:Kevin Kinsella
“We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.” MeanSaidImportantTechnologyEnvironmentImportant ThingsArguingUpsetNonsenseOnlineAwardsRacingDestroyingBubblesOur EnvironmentNuanceArmageddonBeyonce Author:Rick Remender
“Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.” PeopleYearsArtArtistRealizingBehindsArt IsBoringVideoContemporaryShockBubblesGood Movie Author:Alex Katz
“As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.” TryingMindArtImportantOkayCommunicateHelpfulBubbles Author:David LaChapelle
“As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.” GivingDirectCriticismBubblesFeedback Author:Robert Reich
“Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.” IndividualEnergyActingSceneBubbles Author:Barbara Crampton
“We try to approach everything in Life After Hate and Exit USA with compassion. While we really promote approaching things with compassion and empathy, because that's what changed us, it's very difficult knowing there are very virulent, vile people who are focused on furthering the Donald Trump cause. Right now we're dealing with a lot of fake news, misinformation, propaganda, parody. My goal is still trying to reach people through compassionate means, and to get them access to real information. My goal is to share my story and get people out of their bubble, so they can empathize.” PeopleTryingMeanRealHateDifficultGoalCompassionShareChangedEmpathyFocusedPropagandaFakeCompassionateBubblesMisinformation Author:Christian Picciolini
“For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.” PeoplePoliticalChallengesAcceptingOpinionShareCollegeFitWorshipEvidenceSocial MediaAssumptionNeighborhoodBubbles Author:Barack Obama
“I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.” MovingTechnologyNovelHonestSolitudeScaredBeing HonestBubblesSocial Interaction Author:Martin Starr
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“I do think we're in a little bit of a bubble and I think you saw it this year primarily in the fact that everyone was surprised by Donald Trump's success. He was saying things and he was tapping into feelings and resentments in the electorate that the media was almost completely blindsided by. And that suggests we are not spending enough time talking to people out there who are living the lives and feeling the problems that led them to Donald Trump.” PeopleThinkingEnoughFeelingsProblemBubblesResentment Author:Frank Bruni
“I really think that parenthood cracks you open, which sounds so vague, but it is a different type of vulnerability. That's the bottom line. There isn't a second that I'm with my daughter that I don't appreciate every moment we have. All you want to do is protect her and create the best bubble possible for her to view the world.” ThinkingWorldDifferentMomentsProtectDaughterAppreciateBottomVulnerabilityMy DaughterParenthoodBubbles Author:Jeremiah Brent
“O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response was, famously, "I'm not black - I'm O.J." O.J. had ambitions to be famous, rich and liked by everyone, and I think he understood that being political and militant as a black athlete was not a way to engender universal love.” ThinkingPoliticalBlackRichAmbitionResponseHuman RightsAthleteBubblesMilitant Author:Ezra Edelman
“The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.” PeopleKindVisionI RealizedFilmmakerRevelationsBubblesGreat FilmOne Of A KindKind People Author:Mick Garris
“At school, when kids are being encouraged to get the one right answer and fill in that bubble, people can do things that enable their children to solve problems in multiple ways: "Can you think of different ways to make the bed?" It costs nothing, and the child is learning, "I have good ideas, I can be creative, and I can show you that I have confidence."” PeopleThinkingChildrenDifferentProblemKidsSchoolCreativeBubblesMultipleBe CreativeHave Confidence Author:Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
“What I hold dear is well-known to all of my colleagues. And, really, The Times is the kind of place, the greatest journalism doesn't just pop forth from our heads. It's, you know, a group of people, and the great ideas bubble up from the reporters to their editors and get to us.” PeopleKindDearJournalismBubblesGreat Idea Author:Jill Abramson
“The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if it places them comfortably among "the good guys," - assumptions that are likely to be drawn as much from folk-Christianity, surrounding political culture, popular pulp-books about the "End Times," or their favourite guru writer or therapist, than from sober and comprehensive reading of the Bible as a whole. Prophets and preachers have the unwelcome task of pricking that bubble with the sharpness of actual texts and teachings of the Bible itself.” KindMeanTodayChristianPoliticalGuyCultureReadingChristianityTroubleTeachingProphetAssumptionBubblesFavouritePreacherSoberEnd TimesGuruGood Guy Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“I think it's important for us to allow ourselves to be in creative bubble when you really need to finish something. You can always re enter the world after, once you feel like you're done with it.” ThinkingWorldImportantDoneCreativeLike YouBubbles Author:Kissey
“Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.” BrotherActivistBubblesGardenerDaydreaming Author:Rachel Weisz
“I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a bowl of actual green investment and job creation. So my goal for next year is to move from inspiration to implementation on this stuff.” ThinkingInspirationMovingGoalCreationInvestmentBe GoodBubblesRhetoric Author:Van Jones
“The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a few countries. So we are all going through the same things. But let's say Ireland, in the '70s and the '80s was tough, but if you grow up with a tough background it makes you strong.” ThinkingCountryStrongGrowing UpEconomicToughBubblesIreland Author:Gavin Friday
“The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a line or two that I've heard in my head. As a writer, you have to leave space to listen for words. That means finding time to be quiet and listen for that still, small voice.” MeanBookSleepQuietBubblesDrifting Author:Marie Bradby
“Brian De Palma was one of the rare directors who wanted us all to go to dailies. It was like a party. After shooting The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, we'd all walk over together, at like 5 or 6 o'clock, to the little theater. And we'd sit down and watch the dailies from like, the day before. And John Travolta, whenever I came onscreen, he was just laughing hysterically. He just thought I was a riot.” TogetherPartyBoysLaughingBubblesRiot Author:P. J. Soles
“When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.” PeopleHelpingOpportunityBoysStudentsSweetCoupleBubbles Author:P. J. Soles
“Valentino lives his life like the Queen of England - he lives in the bubble. But he designs for royals, so it's almost a business decision, even though he would do it anyway. He wants to be part of that world.” WorldDecisionDesignBubblesQueen Of England Author:Matt Tyrnauer
“It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.” PeopleWorldDifferentPainSupportLuckyOppressionBubblesSupport Me Author:Nomi Ruiz
“I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.” SituationEgoAnxietyBubblesDeep BreathSocial AnxietyTake A Deep BreathAlter Ego Author:Lindy Booth
“I think everybody benefitted from what I am calling a bubble finance system, a bubble economy and if we're ever going to right the system, we're going to have to stop this explosion of the federal debt. We need huge spending cuts, OK? Don't get me wrong, we need to raise regular taxes too but even beyond that it's not going to hurt if we want to reset the system to ask those who have benefitted disproportionately - remember, we got $60 trillion of net worth in the household sector. $45 trillion of that belongs to the top 5 percent.” ThinkingRememberHurtEconomyCuttingTaxesFinanceBubbles Author:David Stockman
“If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can predict just like you couldn't the dot com crash or the Lehman crash, but when it goes down it will go down by thousands of points because everyone will panic. No one owns this market today because they believe there's a huge sunny future for the United States economy. They're buying because they think the Fed can keep the thing pumped up, the bubble expanding.” ThinkingBelieveTodayEconomyLike YouCrisisBubblesCrashSunny Author:David Stockman
“The stock market in Japan was half the world market and where has the Japan economy gone since the 1990s? Nowhere. They've been struggling for two decades in the aftermath of a massive bubble that's collapsed. They've tried to work their way out of it by printing even more money and it hasn't worked. Now, I'm saying this is what all the central banks are doing. There is no honest interest rate in the world today.” WorldTodayInterestStruggleEconomyHonestRateBubblesPrintingInterest Rate Author:David Stockman
“The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value goes up. You put it up as collateral. You borrow against it. You buy more of the asset. You then take the rising asset. You borrow against it again. This is the nature of what's going on in the world. This isn't an excess of real savings. This is an excess of artificial credit that's being fueled by all the central banks.” PeopleWorldRealProblemValuesInterestRateFinanceBubblesInterest RateCollateral Author:David Stockman
“If you let interest rates be freed, be set by the free market, they would rise dramatically. There would be a lot of broken furniture on Wall Street. It needs to be broken. The back of the speculative bubble would be broken and we could slowly heal the financial system. That's what I think we need to do but it's never going to happen because there's trillions of asset values dependent on the Fed continuing to suppress, repress interest rates and shovel $85 billion a month of liquidity into the market.” ThinkingValuesInterestBrokenWallRateFinancialHealBubblesFree MarketInterest Rate Author:David Stockman
“I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I think the Fed is making federal debt so cheap that Congress has no interest, Washington has no incentive to ever face up to our massive fiscal gap that is going to grow, and grow as we go forward in time and so we have a paralyzed system.” ThinkingInterestFinanceBubbles Author:David Stockman