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“So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans.”

Firsts Humans Cities Clear Plans Advice Development Activity Connections Wave Core Surprising Troops Consistently Urban Runners Pathways Human Activity Planners

Author:Don Kardong

“With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.”

People Men Country Values Animal Tree Core Assets Biblical Worldview Pagan Ecosystems Demise Hindrance Core Values Inception Reverting

Author:Dennis Prager

“Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.”

Form Used Water Shapes Degrees Survival Resources Aspect Critical Core Exploration

Author:Edward Burtynsky

“Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.”

Consciousness Forever Wind Core Comes And Goes Leaves In The Wind

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.”

Knows Want Trying Looks Persons Character Kids Values Moral Watches Greater Tree Inspire Honor Core Hills Superficial Greater Things Tree Hill

Author:Hilarie Burton

“You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”

Littles Differences Lines Accepting Player Groups Team Worst Emotional Standards Defeat Core Dedication Veteran Best Team

Author:Merlin Olsen

“Change your practices without abandoning your core values.”

Values Practice Core Core Values

Author:James C. Collins

“The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.”

Genius Roots Core Genuine Authenticity

Author:Alan Cohen

“Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.”

Trying Surface Core Hips Impress Underestimated Earnestness

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Source: The last lecture

“Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?”

Ifs Knows Teach Core Science And Religion Interconnected

Author:Ram Dass

“It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.”

Mean Long Made Book Feelings Beautiful Certain Understood Lonely Insight Core Pleasant Confused Helpless Petty Humiliated Resentful Shabby Sad And Lonely

Author:Alice Miller

“Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.”

People Men Hard Helping Skills Luck Core Attributes

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.”

Life Is Values Energy Fun Expression Source Roots Critical Meaningful Core Enthusiasm Life Is Good

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.”

Source: Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show

“You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.”

Needs Stills Bigs Growth Growing Impossible Investing Core Units New Business New Growth

Author:Clayton Christensen

“I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.”

People Thinking Has Beens Listening Forgotten Singers Core Obsessed Obsessive Just Listen Analyzing

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.”

Ifs Trying Inspiration Together Left Loses Inspire Music Is Draws Core Loved Ones Family Friends

Author:Charlie Benante

“I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.”

Facts Bigs Common Support Evidence Contrary Core Bureaucracy Common Core

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.”

Trying Different Sides Records Shapes Core Never Change Gems Facets Different Sides

Author:Neige

“It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.”

Stills Challenges Albums Core

Author:Neige

“I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.”

Thinking Knows Made Body Doubt Progress Essentials Moved Connected Core No Doubt

Author:Eve Ensler

“I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there.”

Knows Needs Feels Born My Friends Originals Core Reaching Hanging Out Family And Friends Buzz Original Thought Articulating

Author:Caroline Myss

“That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.”

Needs May Children Stills Kids Understanding Education Path Focused Core Outcomes Equity Need You Pedagogy

Author:Pedro Noguera

“That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.”

“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.”

“I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.”

Week Months Exercise Eating Yoga Sitting Constant Clean Phones Core Gym Benches Pilates Incline Binge Binge Eating

Author:Josh McDermitt

“I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.”

Enough Used Love Is Wonder Lucky Connections Core

Author:Benjamin Stone

“My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.”

Giving Persons Found Core Who I Am Call Me Extensions Renewal Involvement

Author:Grace Gealey

“Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.”

People Soul Style Performances Singers Core Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:India.Arie

“We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.”

Today Term Common Intellectual Core Thrown Rhetoric Seriousness Discussing Education System Rigor American Education Common Core American Education System

Author:Dana Goldstein

“I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.”

People Speak Issues Bases Remains Core Serving Facing Death

Author:Charles Todd

“Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.”

Has Beens Common Core Jersey New Jersey Common Core

Author:Chris Christie

“The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the south. There are a number of those sons of Abyei in high positions of government in South Sudan, so it's pretty hard for South Sudan to just walk away.”

Want Believe Hard Government Walks Numbers Position Son Areas South Core Sudan

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.”

Ifs World Writing Stories Reading My Own Comfort Oneself Core Fixed Consolation Comforting Instability Fictional Worlds

Author:Norman Lock

“I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Stories Use Challenges Lines Opinion Novel Dog Emotional Core Silly Reins Pun Wordplay Silliness

Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff

“I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.”

Writing Song Principles Style Structure Core Stuck Genre Classic Songwriting

Author:Wendy Starland

“No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.”

Matter Feelings Circumstances No Matter What Who You Are Core Temporary

Author:Wendy Starland

“Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.”

Men Long Stills Problem Home Courses Names Dark Violence Conditions He Man Married Europe Accepted Core Tolerance Circles Islamic Prisoner Ignored Epidemics Dominance

Author:Alice Schwarzer

“Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.”

Important Purpose Asks Psychology Share Core Important Questions

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.”

Who You Are Core True Nature

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.”

People Writing Firsts Ends Stories Novel Emotional Research Historical Core Historical Novels

Author:Jami Attenberg

“I was shocked [of Sarah Palin ], because beating up, you know, your girlfriend, your spouse, or acts of violence aren`t one of the core symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Knows Violence Stress Core Posts Girlfriend Disorder Shocked Spouse Symptoms Palin Acts Of Violence Your Girlfriend Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author:Jon Soltz

“If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.”

Ifs Problem Progress Involved Republican Strategy Solve Core Productive Posture

Author:Juan Williams

“I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.”

People Looks Ideas Stories Strong Voice Hurt News Solutions Core Compelling Editing Good News Upbeat Peg

Author:Ann Friedman

“I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."”

Ifs Feels Writing Stories Reality Happened Feet Core Secure

Author:Sasa Stanisic

“A lot of girls will do regular crunches, when that is building muscle in the middle of your stomach on top of - right in the middle area, where you might not want it to be. There's certain types of sit-ups and crunches and moves that kind of build the core set of your muscles inside. There's a different way of looking at exercise and optimizing it for the female body, if that makes sense.”

Ifs Way Want Kind Different Body Might Moving Certain Girl Middle Building Type Exercise Areas Female Core Make Sense Different Ways Muscles Stomach Female Body Crunch

Author:April Rose

“I've failed so many times in my life that my recovery time has improved. I'm better at redirecting my attention. I've trained in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics over the past couple of years and that has allowed me to see how much we project our failures onto others. It has taught me to accept myself. There is real power in owning your truth.”

Years Real Past Attention Accepting Taught Couple Projects Core Recovery Radical Over The Past Real Power

Author:Damon Runyon

“On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.”

Ifs Want Needs Body Winning Sports Sides Streets Balance Healthy Core Diets Healthy Body

Author:Andy Lally

“There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.”

Values White Female Core Founders Raising Money

Author:Kathryn Finney

“Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.”

People Thinking Trying Real Action Courses Stuff Exciting Core Fantastic Substance Visuals Terrific Action Movie Something Real

Author:Joel Kinnaman

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