“What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.” IfsWritingStuffBrokenConcernedMarkEducationalInstantQuotationsGrammarPursuedSpellingObnoxiousEducational SystemGoofyPunctuationSyntaxPlacementCheetahsQuotation Marks Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.” ShouldBoysWeekConcernedWingsRatsRight WingTraitor Author:John Cole
“My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.” PeopleFoundActingConcernedYour Presence Author:Chuck Norris
“Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.” PastLove IsConcernConcernedFalsehoodEmperorPseudoFuture Love Author:Rajneesh
“Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.” WorldNeedsGrowingPlansThis WorldConcernedLooking BackGrowing OldQuietnessGrowing OlderGrove Author:Li Bai
“If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?” IfsImportantNextCareersGenerationsConcernedPaidNext GenerationQualifiedProgressionHealth Services Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.” PeopleThinkingMeanCountryGovernmentTogetherPartyGroupsConcernedCrossesDebtSpendingTeaConfusedBroadsSectionsTea PartyLimited GovernmentSmall Groups Author:Jim DeMint
“Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.” PlayShowsMotherDemandSingingConcernedHorribleNoiseBumpsBacking UpShow Biz Author:Colin Greenwood
“The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.” PeopleWorldWantFirstsWarAmericaNumbersHappenedTruth IsFirst TimeConcernedSignificantWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IRefugeeSignificant Numbers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.” MenLooksRunningThreeNextWonderWorryPlansMiddleTomorrowOne DayConcernConcernedMirrorsSufficientMealsMiddle AgedMenusThursdayTime Running Out Author:Rod Serling
“I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.” ThinkingWantWritingHas BeensMightDifficultCareersConcernedTopography Author:Jonathan Meades
“As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.” KnowsReasonKnow HowCenturyConcernedPerformancesCriticsDrivenHistorian20th CenturyIntegrating Author:Roselee Goldberg
“I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanAbleHoursSpaceCryHugeCostConcernedDollarsStudiosNoiseChainsMessSmokePaceSpitMy Space Author:Grimes
“To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.” PeopleWayPlayFormHonestConcernedExcitingAgreeDrivenBeing HonestTenseComplacencyPresent Tense Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.” WritingSoundNovelConcernedAmazing Things Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” PeopleWorldWayCountrySeemsKidsIndividualViewsGroupsHappeningsConcernedExcitedOur CountryBetter PlacePessimisticPlaces In The World Author:Steve Jobs
“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.” FirstsEnoughShowsWantedSidesTermTeachingStudentsNeededSkillsConcernedAssumingI RealizedRelateGood EnoughAlliesProvidenceOakland Author:Pedro Noguera
“When someone's really sick and their family is tired and concerned about what will take place, those are the times that they need a support group around them to take care of them as a human being.” NeedsHumansCareHuman BeingsSupportGroupsConcernedSickTiredTake CareSupport Groups Author:Rodney Yee
“I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.” ThinkingWayProblemWantedShareHappeningsConcernedMexicoReadership Author:Sarah Stillman
“Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.” ThinkingTwoAgeSpiritualSongThreeStuffWrittenSubjectsConcernedMiserableIsolationListeners Author:David Bowie
“If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.” PeopleIfsTryingSchoolSidesIssuesTeachingEvolutionConcernedScientistClimateClimate ChangeAtheistHeresyYour SideDiscredit Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.” ThinkingWantGovernmentMightGreaterConcernedLibertarianAccessAnarchistDistant Relationship Author:Zephyr Teachout
“In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.” PeopleCountryAmericaKnownWonderEconomicConcerned Author:John Kasich
“With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.” SongWrittenGeniusConcernedNarrative Author:Stephen Malkmus
“There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.” LongHalfCompanyIssuesToo MuchMajorsConcernedWeightThrowingLong AgoConsideringPollsTitansLobbying Author:Astra Taylor
“I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.” WorldWantFeelsWritingTryingMomentsTeachIssuesReaderConcernedCraftsEssaysKill Me Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I used to be concerned about style, worried about my work looking like a bad copy of someone who's better than me. So my embracing of the research and finding a way to replicate something consciously rather than replicate something unconsciously seemed like a way to go to distinguish what I do.” WayUsedStyleFindingsResearchConcernedUsed To BeWorriedCopiesReplicate Author:Robert Sikoryak
“We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.” ShouldKindPlayStoriesFictionDegreesConcernedIntentionEthicalPreachingSermonsSneakEthical Questions Author:Roy Kesey
“My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.” KnowsKidsParentDarkConcerned Author:Matt Berninger
“This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.” PeopleWayCharacterFactsCertainFictionConcernedAgreeNonfictionLiberatingParadigm Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantEndsHappensKidsWaterAwarenessLuckyConcernedHistoricalCuriosityErasTensionHyperGrandkids Author:Lucy Corin
“People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.” PeopleLiteratureEconomyConcernConcernedMental HealthGenderRidiculousHealth System Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksWarCountryShowsEyeAmericaDesireSufferingSituationHorrorPhotographyConcernedInspiredDocumentsHomelessnessProstitutionHorror Of War Author:Jamel Shabazz
“When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.” KnowsLooksI CanCharacterConcerned Author:Nick Jonas
“I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.” LongConcernConcernedPaceElsewhereMagnet Author:Adam Schiff
“I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.” PeopleStillsDangerConcernedClockClock Is Ticking Author:Adam Schiff
“Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure.” WayWantReadingSoundCasesSacrificeHonestStyleInvolvedConcernedPressureSentencesBeing HonestGreekReviewsTranslationsNo Pressure Author:Daniel Alarcon
“There are some people who say that theyÂ’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I donÂ’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.” PeopleThinkingFactsCommunityPovertyResourcesConcernedConnectionsIncomeInequalityCapabilityAdequate Author:Amartya Sen
“People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.” PeopleHumansCareSufferingDifferencesAnimalCompassionEmpathyConcernedDirectHuman AnimalCultural Differences Author:Paul Bloom
“I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.” FirstsBelieveStatesGenerationsCollegeMomDadConcernedMy DadInternationalMy MomWho We AreFarmersVery StrongMailFourthGrandfatherGrandparentMy GrandfatherWisconsinJust BelieveGreat Grandparents Author:Mary Burke
“As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.” Life IsLateConcernedToo LateStarting OverNever Too Late Author:LaToya Jackson
“The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.” WayLittlesReasonChoicesAnimalConcernedBlindHorribleTreatedMeatDietsEthicalVegetarian Author:Andy Lally
“Originally, when I got the role of Lisa [from Visitors], I was a little concerned, because I was worried I would be typecast as an alien for the rest of my life. But they are so, so different that it wasn't at all a problem. I'm very lucky. I'm blessed to be on another show. I think it's going to do really well.” ThinkingWellsLittlesDifferentShowsProblemWould BeRolesLuckyConcernedBlessedAliensWorriedVisitors Author:Laura Vandervoort
“It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayDifferentCountryHelpingGovernmentCertainSidesMovementInvolvedConcernedYour SideDifferent CountriesBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Obviously I don't agree with everything he [Donald Trump] says. There's a lot that we have a difference of opinion on. But we can't ignore that he's touched on some issues that people are concerned about. If you look at the statements he made this week, obviously I think he made them partially to recapture the limelight after having lost it.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMadeLostDifferencesOpinionIssuesWeekTrumpConcernedAgreeStatementsTouchedLimelightDifferences Of Opinion Author:Marco Rubio
“[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.” I CanIdeasConcernedBuddhistLife And DeathPassagesStatuesAestheticsBorrowingBetween Life And Death Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of America, funded by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers, by the way, want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, every governmental program passed since the 1930s. Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.” PeopleWayWantAmericaSocialGroupsSecurityBrotherConcernedProgramClintonSecretaryVeteranSocial SecurityMedicare1930sMedicaid Author:Bernie Sanders
“What I'm concerned about is the views of many Democrats who know their states, who know how hard it is to win a general election. And it also will push whoever the nominee is into the spotlight. I've been vetted. There's hardly anything you don't know about me. And I think it's fair to say that whoever is in that position, Senator Bernie Sanders or anyone else who might have run, will face the most withering onslaught.” ThinkingKnowsHardStatesMightRunningFacesWinningViewsKnow HowPositionConcernedFairsElectionDemocratSenatorsSpotlightWitheringGeneral Elections Author:Hillary Clinton
“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.” PeopleMenWorldMeanWholeGovernmentCan DoBuildingConcernedToolsInstruments Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.” PeopleIfsHomeReturnDemandCapitalismConcernedSocialismSocialistPopeHomeland Author:Rush Limbaugh