“Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle in creating more opportunity for minorities. I threw myself info the protests with all my heart. Ultimately, a group of us barricaded ourselves in the school for about 3 weeks so we brought the running of the campus to a halt.” HeartRunningSchoolOpportunityRolesGroupsWeekCollegeMy HeartCreatingIncreaseObstaclesLocalsMinoritiesProtestHistoricHaltCampusTuition Author:Lewis Schiff
“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.” PlayFoundSocialSidesRolesProgressCreatingWindowEntrepreneurCriticalGiantsExtensionsSocial Change Author:Lewis Schiff
“Any leader has two jobs to do. To do what they are currently doing better and more efficiently (call this strengthening the core), and to do what they are not currently doing but will need to do in the future (call this creating the new).” NeedsTwoJobsLeaderCreatingCoreStrengtheningTwo Jobs Author:Scott D. Anthony
“In the strengthening the core job, a leader can draw on their past experiences. After all, in most cases they did the job of the people that are reporting to them! So they know when something is screwed up, they know the risks worth taking, and they know the corners to cut. But when they are creating the new, no one knows what the right answer is.” PeopleKnowsJobsPastAnswersLeaderCasesCuttingRiskCreatingDrawsCornersCoreStrengtheningScrewed UpRight AnswersPast Experiences Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Creating the new increasingly is more than 50 percent of a top leader's job.” JobsLeaderCreatingPercent Author:Scott D. Anthony
“If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.” IfsWayTryingDifferentProblemAnswersKnownCreatingPerformancesOperationsSomething NewEnginesExecutionRight WayRight AnswersCreating Something Author:Scott D. Anthony
“One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.” NeedsProblemMistakeCompanyForeverProgressTeamCreatingFunctionInnovationMirrorsCriticalCoreCrushAddressesVersusBiggest MistakeLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.” ThinkingWayLooksMightTodayAbleAmericaBlackAbilityColdCreatingDrivenCynicalBlack AmericaPersonal Love Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.” ThinkingKnowsArtRunningSchoolTogetherYoungProcessCreatingPacksConsensusArt EducationRunning Together Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.” FeelsPersonsImportantCharacterCreatingDistanceRehearsal Author:Morgan Saylor
“As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.” PeopleWorldDifferentKidsHumanityRaceAchieveParticularAmbitionCreatingStriveBackgroundsDifferent Races Author:Barack Obama
“My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.” FeelsCharacterStoriesVoiceReaderCreatingLoyalPublishers Author:Jennifer Weiner
“If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.” PeopleIfsMenGivingHas BeensBodyWhiteForeverCreatingNarrativeExecutivesAwardsRetiredReviewersDistributors Author:Jill Soloway
“If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.” IfsBelieveAcceptingBuildingCreatingAppropriateArchitectVacuumsPreconceptionsMarkers Author:Peter Clewes
“If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.” IfsGivingPlayCreatingDialogue Author:Jeppe Hein
“That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.” WellsMeanJobsEnergyWaterDealsSunAchieveWindCallingCreatingMajorsProgramCleanClimateIncludingControlledPortionsInfrastructureRestorationTransportationEmissionsEcosystemsRenewable EnergyGuidelinesPrototypeNew DealPublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.” EnoughFactsShowsMovingEnergyPayStudyCostCreatingDollarsCleanBillionsSavedSavingDietsSavingsRenewable EnergyClean Energy Author:Jill Stein
“Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?” WarAgeOrderColdCreatingJustifyHelpfulThis DayCold WarAlliancesNato Author:Jill Stein
“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.” NeedsHelpingJobsFormEnergyAnswersMillionsEconomyExampleIndustryHealthyCreatingWeaponsCleanWorkersProductionsFuelTransitionEfficiencyGood JobFossilsManufacturingTransportationFossil FuelDepartureRenewable EnergyLiving WagePublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“Family is so important and I think that is what you are doing in a relationship - you are in one way or another creating a family. And if you don't have a solid base for that, then it is never going to work.” IfsThinkingWayImportantCreatingOne WayGoing To WorkCreating A Family Author:Nico Tortorella
“I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.” ThinkingBookCreatingSeriesStand Alone Author:Martha Ronk
“If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.” IfsChallengesLevelsCreativeProductsCreatingConsumptionMaintainingCoca Cola Author:John Kao
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.” WayMeanIndividualProcessResultsDealsCreativitySupportCreativeEnvironmentSkillsDemandCreatingManagementPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereIntimateOutcomesCreative ProcessManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.” MindResponsibilityCreatingTraditionalAccountabilityDefiningMind Set Author:John Kao
“Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.” PeopleMeanDoeRunningProcessCreativeEnvironmentDramaCreatingEdgesUncertaintyCreative ProcessNurturingSteam Author:John Kao
“I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema, which actually needs this support and which indeed contributes to creating "national culture".” NeedsFilmCultureSupportCreatingGratefulBudgetsCinemaAuteursNational Culture Author:Ivan Tverdovsky
“I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.” WantFeelsWellsMeanTwoDifferentDifficultCommunityActingCareersFieldsMinesExpressionAmbitionCreatingInsaneAmbivalence Author:Lola Kirke
“Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.” ThinkingWayArtCreatingCreating Music Author:Vince Staples
“There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.” PeopleIfsCreatingBeatsSlaveBack In The Day Author:Normani Hamilton
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.” MenWorldWritingTryingYearsBelieveHas BeensTwoBookMy OwnHalfFictionImagineProjectsCreatingPhotographyUltimateInstanceEvolveRangeTwo YearsFablesFiction WritingWriting FictionEclecticBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.” PeopleWantHumansDogCreatingHarmonious Author:Cesar Millan
“The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if I could write a story for it. I was so intrigued! I immediately knew that it had to be a love story told from the points of view of the two main characters. Right away, I started working on a proposal. And once I had my main characters, Brendan and Evelyn, it was as though they started telling me their stories.” IfsWritingTwoBookIdeasCharacterStoriesViewsCreatingPoint Of ViewLove StoryIf I CouldEditorsProposalIntriguedMain CharactersAccordions Author:Theodora Goss
“Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae, wearing them like masks, and then discarding them as soon as they grew too familiar.” YearsSelfLiteratureMastersGrewCreatingInventionFamiliarMaskBobDylanFunny ThingsNobel Author:Jay Michaelson
“In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.” ThinkingWorldLooksHas BeensWarStatesHappensAmericaUnitedOpinionEnemyUnited StatesConflictCreatingMirrorsAgreeStartingRepeatsWho We AreStrings Author:Norman Lear
“The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first.” FirstsMeanStatesGovernmentHappensJobsFormOpportunityEnergySpaceWalksUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingInnovationCompetitionCleanInvestmentWaveEntrepreneurshipFloodCarbonCleanersNew JobPentagonWalks Of LifeClean EnergyTidal Waves Author:Van Jones
“There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.” ShouldWholeJobsEnergyBuildingIndustryRight NowCreatingSmartFewerEfficiencyGridsEnergy Efficiency Author:Van Jones
“The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over.” PeopleMeanLittlesBigsIssuesStupidFiguresTrumpCreatingBeatsWanderDumbUncomfortableCommentEstablishmentHistoricNominations Author:Newt Gingrich
“You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.” DoePlayBandCreatingBreatheCreating SomethingInvigorating Author:Taylor Momsen
“When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.” KnowsJobsCultureCreatingGood JobRepresentingCreating Something Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.” ThinkingImportantPerspectiveCreatingIndependentNarrativeLgbtLanes Author:Cakes da killa
“It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.” FirstsHappenedCreatingFirst TimeDemocratScreamDean Author:Jill Stein
“In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.” HumansEnoughJobsPastProgressCreatingCome UpTechnologicalNew JobTechnological Progress Author:Gemma Chan
“President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.” SaidFightingStarsPresidentWatchesEconomyFiveMilitaryCreatingThreatComplexesResistanceEmpiresTaxpayersDevouringDrainingMilitary Industrial ComplexDwightDwight Eisenhower Author:Ralph Nader
“Focus on creating really good music and a great live show before doing anything else. If you have these two things in place, the other aspects of the business are much easier and almost take care of themselves.” IfsTwoShowsCareFocusEasierCreatingAspectTake CareTwo Things Author:Ryan Merchant
“Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever before in history. So as a consequence, we are not creating jobs at the same pace that we need to.” ThinkingNeedsJobsTechnologyRight NowCreatingConsequenceFasterPaceDestroyingCreating Jobs Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2.0.” ThinkingKnowsMenNeedsShouldUseProblemBigsLawYoungBlackLevelsRecordsCreatingLowsExtremesSolveCriminalsMarijuanaUsersLaw EnforcementEnforcementTobaccoLow Level Author:Kevin Sabet
“Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.” KnowsBigsNextMistakeCreatingGratefulOur TimeSmokingConcertsMarijuanaTobaccoPhilipMorrisPhilip Morris Author:Kevin Sabet
“The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.” WorldNeedsFeelsLooksUseNumbersTechnologyOne ThingThis WorldCreatingTroll Author:Walt Dohrn