“I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.” ThinkingPlayMomentsSoundRecordsBuildingVocabularyEmulation Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.” IfsThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStatesLastsFacesTermChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEconomicBuildingParticularApproachEuropeHistoricalAidsDevelopingLong TermAgricultureProximityLong Term RelationshipHistorical Context Author:Dambisa Moyo
“Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.” PeopleThinkingAbleGrowsGoalMy OwnDecisionTeamAchieveBuildingTrumpOrganizationScalesSupplementsBuilding A Team Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.” ThinkingGivingShouldPassionCommunityNaturalCreativeVirtueTalentBuildingCitizensNobilityCreative ThinkingCommunity BuildingNatural Talent Author:Marianne Williamson
“I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.” ThinkingMadeCountryBuildingWallFunctionContraryMinistersPriestsTheologianBuilding Walls Author:Joe Biden
“I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.” ThinkingChildrenWarEndsMomentsHandsGenerationsBuildingColdExpectationsNuclearAtmosphereBombsReasonableCold WarMoronNuclear Bomb Author:Louie Psihoyos
“A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.” PeopleThinkingWantEasyVisionKnowingFocusBuildingBuiltSupposed To BePhasesTunnelsBlueprintsTunnel Vision Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid
“I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.” ThinkingPersonsHouseStuffCreativeBuildingThings I LoveCreative PersonBuilding ThingsLandscaping Author:Chris Sharma
“I think that it is important to establish a world of place for the characters in improv and there is nothing to be gained from disagreeing about that. So you have to establish the principle that if some person establishes one thing we're all going to go along with it and that we are all building from it.” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsImportantCharacterPrinciplesOne ThingBuilding Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course.” ThinkingWayHappensCoursesIndividualBuildingParticularOughtInternetDirectInstitutionsPrivacyProfileBuilding UpMonitoringRight To Privacy Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?” ThinkingKnowsWayLooksMeanArtBeautifulFoundTermExamplePositionBuildingNeededArt IsHistoricalBoringBlockI've LearnedPrecedentBarbaraBuilding BlocksThinking About YouDidactic Author:Kehinde Wiley
“My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.” ThinkingYearsRememberUsedFatherHouseMemoriesRoomsSeeingBuildingModelsIraqArchitectureDrawingArchitectAuntLiving RoomIntriguedClose Friends Author:Zaha Hadid
“I think it is fair to say that the end goal might be a demand yet your focus when building brands should rarely focus on this objective.” ThinkingShouldEndsMightGoalFocusBuildingDemandFairsObjectivesBrandsBuilding A Brand Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentCitiesCrazyStupidBuildingCreatingBiggerStructureProblem Solving Author:Ai Weiwei
“The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.” ThinkingYearsFunProcessRecordsStudentsBuildingEverydayUniversityTreatedMagazinesSatisfyingVirginsUniversity Education Author:Richard Branson
“As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLongWould BeHouseWaitingBlackWhiteSituationLeaderConditionsDangerousBuildingMassSatisfiedWhite ManComplacentBuilding UpDisserviceWait For HimDangerous Situations Author:Malcolm X
“Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.” ThinkingPersonsSaidMightChristianRememberBuildingWallTrumpBridgesPopeRemarksDisgracefulBuilding BridgesBuilding Walls Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.” ThinkingDoeLiteratureBuildingApproachDirectInsightLayersBiblicalBuilding UpDirect Approach Author:Frank Moore Cross
“I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.” ThinkingKindSkyNew YorkBuildingBenefitsAreasMy TimeTallVillageSkyscraperNyuTall Buildings Author:Nat Hentoff
“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.” ThinkingKnowsWarEnoughGovernmentNumbersDemocracyClearFocusRightsSecurityBuildingCostRacismAgreeFinancialDrawingAdministrationNot SureDisagreeApprovalIsraeliTalibanDeclaringInsistingProtocolConstitutional RightsDeclaring War Author:Judith Butler
“I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindImportantKidsUsedHumanityStuffUnderstandingTeachFireBuildingDepthArchitectureFuel Author:Frank Gehry
“What I'm clear about is that we have an opportunity through this early meeting with Donald Trump to start that process of building on that special relationship, that special relationship which is on our national interest, and I think that we can together not just build that special relationship but do it in a way that is good for both for us and good more widely.” ThinkingWayTogetherOpportunityProcessInterestClearSpecialBuildingTrumpMeetingsNational InterestsSpecial Relationship Author:Theresa May
“We think that`s necessary just as a foundation for economic growth. It`s not the jobs in and of themselves, which you do make by building bridges and things like this, but it`s the economic growth that comes from having a modern infrastructure that is in dire need of repair.” ThinkingNeedsJobsGrowthEconomicModernBuildingFoundationBridgesInfrastructureEconomic GrowthBuilding Bridges Author:Paul Ryan
“I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsWarHomeCareSchoolJobsNationsBrainExampleBuildingResourcesStressDecadesPostsBridgesInjuryDisorderVeteranGood JobRebuildingNation BuildingBack To WorkOur VeteransPost Traumatic Stress DisorderBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Barack Obama
“As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.” ThinkingWorldWarHomeNationsMilitaryBuildingCaringHarmDecadesChiefsBridgesStrongestTroopsVeteranCommandersRebuildingKeep The FaithNation BuildingOur TroopsCommander In ChiefOur Veterans Author:Barack Obama
“[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.” PeopleThinkingWellsAbleProcessVisionBuildingTrumpTestsOrganizationBuilding Up Author:Barack Obama
“I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.” ThinkingBelieveStillsIdeasWarProblemWould BeNationsPresidentPolicyBuildingTrumpIraqDisagreeGood IdeasRegimesForeign PolicyIraq WarMccainNation BuildingRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“Some of the core principles of President Trump are very similar to those of Ronald Reagan. When you look at peace through strength and building up the military, I mean, how many times have you heard President Trump say, "I'm going to build up the military; I'm going to take care of the vets; I'm going to make sure that we don't have a Navy that's decimated, and planes that are nowhere to be found." Peace through strength, deregulation. You think about the economy, the economic boom that was created.” ThinkingLooksMeanCareFoundPresidentPrinciplesEconomyHeardEconomicMilitaryBuildingTrumpTake CareCorePlanesNavyBuilding UpVetsDeregulationPeace Through Strength Author:Reince Priebus
“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsAbleEnergyBuildingHugeWallAmountMetsPicksVideoMakeupTapeElectricityCarbon Author:Peter James
“I think in a way nobody doesn't work anymore. Even moms who say, 'I am out of the workforce.' They may be writing mommy blogs with no expectation of making money, but they are building an onramp for when they do go back.” ThinkingWayWritingMayBuildingMomExpectationsMaking MoneyBlogsWorkforce Author:Suzy Welch
“I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump higher, or win a Super Bowl, you have to set that goal for yourself before you go out and achieve it. I think you have to regulate it, and see how you're building toward it every single day. Am I getting closer to that ultimate goal? Am I doing everything I possibly can today to be successful? I'm always very cognitive of my goals.” IfsThinkingWantBelieveCareTodayWinningI BelieveGoalSuccessfulAchieveBuildingHigherUltimateIncreasePressesDon't CareI Believe InSettingSettingsI Don't CareBeing SuccessfulPoundsBowlsSetting GoalsBenchesCognitiveSuper BowlUltimate Goal Author:Larry Fitzgerald
“I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.” PeopleThinkingKindWholeTogetherGuySocialStuffChanceBuildingEuropeMissionsCorporateNegotiationBelgians Author:Irvine Welsh
“Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!" But as I've gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there's a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn't actually account for the world. As I've gotten older, I've also become sensitive to the ways - to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksKindKidsYoungBuildingTheoryAccountsPhysicsBlockSensitiveExplanationAtomsSmallestPhysicistBuilding UpBuilding BlocksAmenable Author:Adam Frank
“There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalCausesHurtDecisionAttentionConsciousnessOpinionSupportIssuesMediaBuildingTypeModelsPressesAttractionActivismHopefullyMakersMainstreamPublic OpinionReactingGenericDecision MakersPolitical Issues Author:Rachel Maddow
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.” ThinkingMayPersonsChristianBuildingWallBridgesBuilding BridgesBuilding Walls Author:Pope Francis
“People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingMadeDifferencesBuildingMinesLabelsDragAutismSpectrum Author:Temple Grandin
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.” IfsThinkingMadeCountryBigsWould BeBuildingEasierSpeedImprovementMade ItDevelopingTransportationCheaperRailDeveloping CountriesHigh SpeedDeveloped CountryPositive ExperiencesHigh Speed Rail Author:Thomas Pogge
“As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFirstsMovingSocialBuildingDevelopmentAspectRateBurdenHeavySocialismMoving ForwardAspireProsperousCubaSocial DevelopmentIndicatorsHeavy BurdensBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.” PeopleThinkingLittlesInterestBuildingPerspectiveModelsIdealsDemocraticPhilosopherGreekContributionLatinCubaCubanBuilding UpLatin American Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Thoughts are like bullets. You should be aware when you walk into a building what energy is there, whose thoughts are there. People should realize when people think of you their thought is on you.” PeopleThinkingShouldEnergyRealizingWalksBuildingBulletsThink Of You Author:James Van Praagh
“I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.” ThinkingWayUseInterestTreeBuildingTerribleSceneMetaphorBest WayLandscapeSimileDescribing Author:Robert Cormier
“We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.” ThinkingYearsNextEnergyNaturalCarBuildingWindSourceTenInvestingOilGasEfficientNext YearNatural GasEnergy SourcesBiofuels Author:Barack Obama
“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.” PeopleThinkingCountryAnimalMissingBuildingGardenTraditionNeighborHonestlyCraving Author:Novella Carpenter
“There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent individual with the right intentions. So I think things are going to change in terms of U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to Latin America.” ThinkingIndividualPresidentTermPolicyBuildingIntentionBarackLatinForeign PolicyLatin AmericaPresident Barack Obama Author:Rafael Correa
“I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship.” ThinkingGivingTogetherBeautifulChurchEnvironmentBuildingWorshipMusic IsWindowStriveContemplation Author:Dave Brubeck
“When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can have a free hand in the making of it. We've done spaces where things are hinged and they can go out or in, but that's not freedom. That's supermarket freedom, or the notion that you can have anything you want as long as the supermarket carries it. We would love to do a space where you go inside and there's nothing there. You might have a seat and when you don't need it anymore you get up and it disappears.” PeopleThinkingLongDoneBuildingDisappearArchitecture Author:Vito Acconci
“Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek. I grew up making short films the same time I was acting. For me, it's a motion picture, not a play. I'm just as interested in what the camera department is doing and world building through costume design and production design as I am in acting. I think all good directors do that whether they're an actor or not.” PeopleThinkingWorldCareFilmActingDesignBuildingAssumingGeekShort Films Author:Matt Ross