“Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.” PeopleWayNeedsHomeTechnologyFiguresChangedAreasDetermineBoxesViewersPercentages Author:Jim Rash
“In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.” ShowsHomeChangedCastsLife ChangingAustraliaVery Famous Author:Tammin Sursok
“However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.” KnowsWorldLongHomeRocksChangedAbsenceComing HomeYou Again Author:Rachel Hartman
“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” NeedsMindHas BeensStillsHomeLostFunHoursDifferencesViewsSecretCreativityChangedDistanceHolidayLuggageHassleLouvreHome HomeMachu PicchuView From The Top Author:Jonah Lehrer
“London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.” WorldWayYearsHomePastChangedTenEatingSittingYears AgoDrinkingLondonDecadesCoffeeCooksSitting AroundDrinking CoffeeEating OutAlways Eating Author:Doris Lessing
“We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.” WantGivingFirstsKindHomeChristChangedHatsOver YouThreadPlatesFirst LoveSurplusLeftovers Author:Ann Voskamp
“The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.” MenCountryHomeLostAttitudeChangedAppreciateVictimSlaveWestShipsIronyPatrioticUsualPiratePortArrivalsCountrymenDevonFisheriesRaiding Author:Nicholas Rodger
“I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.” HomeFormCertainPartyIdentityChangedListeningSceneDirectConnectionsMusicalTechno Author:Pantha du Prince
“I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.” WantShowsHomeWonderfulMissingChangedI Want YouGood WorkChanged My LifeWonderful TimesWill Miss YouI Will Miss You Author:Barbara Windsor
“My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.” KnowsHomeFatherChanceChangedRetiredSan Francisco Author:Robin Williams
“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.” MenHomeEarthSpiritualLife IsDeathReligionReligiousLevelsProgressChangedEternalRootsBreathsWingsSicknessSentimentsBroadsEaglesConfinedHomesicknessIndestructibleReligious LifeSpiritual ProgressThoughts Of Death Author:Walter Pater
“Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.” MenNeedsTwoHomeJobsWomenShareCarChangedMonthsCoupleSixThirdsCookingPreparedDinnerOilEveningCooksClockContributionRoutineBe PreparedCleaningSix MonthsHouseworkCleaning Up Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.” MenYearsKindImportantFeelingsHomeCareKidsTogetherLastsCultureWomenResponsibilityIdentityChangedFemaleMalesTake CareThirtyEmsTaking ResponsibilityThirty YearsMatchedForging Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.” ThinkingMenFeelsMindStatesHomeConditionsChangedMinesJudgingHabitCapableMachinesRelationMovedFinishedHarmLandscapeAviationStationsState Of MindPredictionsRapidsTurmoilNew HomeWorking ConditionsRapid Change Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I told Missy [Elliot] I couldn't believe how much she has done as a woman in a male-led arena and that she's an inspiration to me. When I got into the lift back to my room to get changed and go home, I broke down in tears.” BelieveDoneHomeInspirationRoomsChangedTearsMalesBrokeLiftsArena Author:Amy Winehouse
“Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.” ChildrenLongImportantHomeAgeSchoolAsksParentCareersChangedBeing A ParentAway From HomeEldestEldest Child Author:Cate Blanchett
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.” IfsThinkingNeedsMindHas BeensMadeStillsIdeasHomeDifferencesSecretCreativityChangedHabitEssentialsPaperDistanceOur TimeGet AwayObscurePapersHome Home Author:Jonah Lehrer
“One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.” NeedsHomeChangePracticeChangedFundamentalsJazzI RealizedComposerNever ChangeMusicianship Author:Pat Metheny
“All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!” SaidStillsHomeUniverseChangedTasteCakeFluxThings Have Changed Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal.” PeopleWorldHomeBeautifulCitiesChangedBeatsFairsShakesRaysSugarGlobesSiteBeautiful PeopleMontrealCities In The World Author:Don King
“The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.” PeopleLittlesStillsHomeChristianChristMemoriesImagineMagicChangedWalkingExpectationsBoundsFairyCartoonBrowniesDisney Cartoon Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.” IfsFirstsSaidHomeChallengesChangedColorMaterialsTomorrowI RealizedComedianCrutchesYou Changed Author:Bill Cosby
“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsStillsHomeArtistCoursesPartyCareersLaughingPiecesGroupsTeamChangedResponseBlowListsShouldersStayingComing HomeKnow MeGroundedMy Best FriendGroup Of Friends Author:Adele
“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.” KnowsHomeTodayPastPoliticalSocialSinEnvironmentChangedAccountsDrunkChickensComing HomePrimeBoxersSocial EnvironmentRoostTimes Are Changing Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.” KnowsWayHelpingHomeKidsCommunityRaceRightsGroupsChangedKingsMessagesLocalsCivil RightsRacistProgressiveEducateDrsHousingRiotChanged My LifeClergyImbibingRace Riots Author:Sara Paretsky
“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.” MenWayYearsLongMomentsStoriesHomeFilmMovingLostForeverTakenGraceSeeingChangedHe ManInvolvedBehaviorDignityTradeSlaveMetaphorAbsenceTriumphOur FamilyApologizingBack HomeHorrificDisgracefulSlave Trade Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.” KnowsMenWantKindMadeSaidHomeGoneWeekSpecialChangedLimitsSixMy FamilySpeedComing HomeLots Of MoneyBurnedEgyptSomething SpecialKenyaBurned OutSafariSpeed Limits Author:Sammy Hagar
“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.” PeopleHeartPersonsMomentsStoriesFeelingsHomeBigsJobsMorningChangedNewsLosingNegativeStartingOptimisticSavingHeightHopelessRetirementUsualLightningHelplessSavingsRecessionsBoltsHeart WrenchingLightning BoltsOptimistic PersonAha Moment Author:Michelle Gielan