“Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.” ThinkingWayHumansCharacterFactsFeelingsIndividualNationsExistencePrinciplesRightsConditionsParticularProductsEssenceUniversalHistoricalLocalsFeaturesNationalityDistinctive Book:Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy Source: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
“I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is” WayKindSituationConditionsGrewGrew UpChosenOutlookPositivelyPositive Outlook Author:Jimmy Cliff
“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.” PeopleWayWritingSaidProblemInspirationAttentionCreativeSpecialConditionsPoetDemandMadnessConcentrationVocationCreative Writing Author:Stephen Spender
“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'” WayShouldLooksBodyBlackResultsOpinionSadnessConditionsEventsResponsibleProfoundReasoningStomachUnhealthyProfound Sadness Author:Emile Chartier
“Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.” WayGivingDoeProblemCertainGoalActingStepsConditionsObjectsRelationOneselfReacting Author:Michel Foucault
“I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.” WayBelieveDoeProblemI BelieveConditionsClimateClimate ChangeSpurs Author:Vinton Cerf
“Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different.” WayPersonsDifferentLife IsConditions Author:Shirin Ebadi
“What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.” WayLittlesIdeasSportsChallengesConditionsEventsOvercomingEntrepreneurTrainAthleteEncountersUnpredictableUndefined Author:Naveen Jain
“What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.” WayCultureSocialEconomicConditionsConditioningHypnosisCulture And ReligionHistory And Culture Author:Deepak Chopra
“Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.” PeopleWayWantFeelsHumansIdeasDiesCultureConditionsSmartLonelySickUncomfortableAccomplishedHuman ConditionAwkwardWant UReally SmartBypassAspens Author:Moby
“I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.” WayFeelsWarHardSocialConditionsDirectIgnorantJustifiedSocial Conditions Author:PJ Harvey
“I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.” ThinkingWorldWayMindFirstsI CanHelpingHandsMightFeltMy OwnSeeingConditionsFirst TimeMy WayStrongestAlliesTruestLone Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.” KnowsWayOrderGrowthAttitudeConditionsFunctionStructurePlantGardener Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.” PeopleIfsWayMayAbleWonderfulConditionsBenefitsEternalConsciousCreditPlatformsReap Author:Radhanath Swami
“I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.” WayNeedsDoeCharacterTurnsChangeWalksAirStreetsConditionsBuildingKeysSummerCapableSeasonsArchitecturePsychologicalClothingsProtectedAdaptationTurn-onConditioningRespondingAdaptabilityAir ConditioningPsychological Needs Author:Glenn Murcutt
“By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.” WayHumansMomentsSpiritCreativityConditionsEvolutionInnovationBlueEnginesDiscontentCreativity And InnovationHuman Evolution Author:Chin-Ning Chu
“I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.” ThinkingWaySaidStatesSeemsBlackTermUnitedUnited StatesConditionsPoetUnderstoodYalePrecarious Author:Claudia Rankine
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.” IfsWayMeanEndsMatterMomentsKidsAbleNationsWaterCommunityRecordsConditionsAwarenessRaisesCleanTrackAlbumsAccessDevelopingFundHealthcareClean WaterLiving Conditions Author:Brooke Fraser
“One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.” WayPersonsMadeSituationConditionsDiscoveryUpsetAnother WayLiberating Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.” PeopleWayWantFeelsPersonsSituationConditionsUpsetAgreement Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.” WorldWayHumansBornConditionsElementsHuman ConditionAttemptingManifold Author:George Pattison
“I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveHumansSoulCoursesDealsDarknessSadnessConditionsFiguresRageHorribleHuman ConditionUpbringingReservedFeeling SadReally SadSadness Of LifeRage And AngerSad SoulSadness And Anger Author:Kevin Bacon
“There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.” WayDifferentSocialBrainConditionsRight NowHappeningsExcitingPressureIllnessThings HappenExciting ThingsSocial ConditionsNeurobiologySocial Pressure Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.” WayTryingLooksHandsHappensJobsOpportunityConditionsDesignGood Design Author:Khoi Vinh
“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.” WorldWayBelieveLyingValuesTechnologyEnvironmentProgressConditionsTaughtDiscoveryResourcesMedicineWesternGet BetterNew WaysTechnologicalImprovingAdvancementAdvancingTaught UsNew DiscoveriesTechnological AdvancementWestern Medicine Author:Waziyatawin
“I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.” WayChallengesActingConditionsPerformancesActresses Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.” WayGivingMemoriesConditionsContinuityPredictable Author:Deepak Chopra
“Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto and the love that she put into her cuisine but ditched the ingredients that bought her a one-way ticket to arthritis, diverticulitis and a host of other inflammatory conditions. I also ditched my own addictions and compulsions around food, especially sugar.” WayPassionMy OwnConditionsHealthyAddictionOne WayIngredientsHostTicketsRecipesCompulsionGrandmaCuisineArthritisGusto Author:Kris Carr
“We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.” WayPlayUseConditionsFootballExcuseKicks Author:Bill Belichick
“By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.” WorldWayConditionsRelateParticipating Author:Ai Weiwei
“Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.” WayActingExistenceEnvironmentConditionsActivityMediumsPassiveFrustratingSustainingSupposing Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education