“I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.” I CanJobsCreating Author:Alexis Ohanian
“In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.” WayTryingLeftTermWillingCreatingWheelsBranchesGambleNew Music Author:Keith Sweat
“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.” LongCountryWhiteMediaTrumpCreatingNewsLong TimeHotDebateCyclesPhenomenonJuneDominatingCaptivatingAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Megyn Kelly
“I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.” WantJobsFunAudienceSuccessfulCreatingStoryteller Author:Bryan Fuller
“The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes.” ShouldWould BeRunningCreatingStoresEmploymentChineseNeighborhoodEmploying Author:Malcolm X
“Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.” NeedsMayEconomyCreatingCapitalismMovedSatisfying Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterGuyCreatingResponsibleBillsTongueDialogueBoston Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.” FeelsWritingDoeI CanCharacterCreatingDialogueWriting DialogueTranscribing Author:Lauren Grodstein
“In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.” ShouldStatesOpportunityProcessGrowthViewsDealsPolicyCreatingInvestmentActiveCooperationSpursNegotiatingNew Opportunity Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.” KnowsKindWholeGovernmentEnergyTermStepsEconomyMoonCreatingAreasOrganizationGreenClimateClimate ChangeFinancialMissionsFinanceAmbitiousIncentivesShort TermStep UpRenewable EnergyNew DirectionsBiotechnology Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.” JobsEconomyMinesCreatingIllusionSeedsCoalCreating Jobs Author:David Remnick
“On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.” I CanProblemSeemsLyingUniverseMy OwnMediaCreatingMy FriendsPostsArticlesConvincing Author:David Remnick
“In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.” NeedsJobsOrderGrowthSpaceEconomyReturnCreatingReformGreekCreating Jobs Author:Barack Obama
“God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.” PersonsHas BeensCreatingIncredibles Author:Desmond Tutu
“God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.” KnowsWantHumansMomentsBeautifulChoicesHuman BeingsLove YouDependsCreatingBreathsFantasticBreathingRejectsClayLumpsGod ImageConstrainBeautiful Images Author:Desmond Tutu
“Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.” PeopleCompanyCreatingToolsScientistMedicineFundLowestVaccinesCreating Things Author:Bill Gates
“So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.” MeanNextNumbersGenerationsCreatingAidsSavingIncentivesBreakthroughNext GenerationSave A LifeMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.” ThinkingWorldDoeSelfCountryLawCultureCreatingLosingTraditionSignificantAround The WorldAcademicOther CountriesBreakthroughResearchersImposingCivil SocietyStatutesMonitoring Author:Edward Snowden
“My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.” YearsLittlesBoysEasierCreatingStudiosLittle BoysNew Music Author:Shakira
“When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."” KnowsWellsDealsEventsCreatingMassDisasterSuperiorsDataJapanScopeSurveillance Author:Edward Snowden
“Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.” WayTodayComedyCreatingCinemaCaricaturesProliferation Author:Danny Glover
“By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.” PeopleGivingDoeCharacterVictoryCreating Author:Danielle Steel
“I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.” PassionActingCreatingWrestlingPassion For Music Author:Chris Jericho
“You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.” PlansCreatingChaosRecipes Author:David Brooks
“Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.” ThinkingFirstsHelpingUseJobsCreatingToolsSafetyFollyTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.” PeopleWantFeelsCreativeEnvironmentComfortableCreatingInspiredEaseFeel BetterInteriorsCreative Freedom Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.” PeopleIdeasSelfFashionExpressionCreatingBoundariesAlternativesCostumes Author:Reese Witherspoon
“My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.” TryingSpiritNaturalFictionDesignEvolutionCreatingNarrativeCinemaDramaticDominantDocumentariesNon Fiction Author:Brett Morgen
“I do have a concern that if we just say no Trans-Pacific Partnership, we`re done, we`re ignoring the region, and then, yes, I think we`re creating a void for China, but that is not what the president [Donald Trump] is saying.” IfsThinkingDonePresidentTrumpCreatingConcernChinaRegionsVoidPartnershipTransPacificJust Say No Author:Paul Ryan
“Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.” NeedsLongKnownEnvironmentRiskStudentsCreatingLong TimeSafetyMeetingsContributionBelongingClassroomSecond PlaceEncourage Students Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.” PeopleFeelsMadeI CanHelpingStuffLevelsComfortableCreatingFortunateDictating Author:Frank Iero
“The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to imply no one else is doing this - I don't believe that. I merely mean to say that what everyone else is doing easily, that is to say, creating without impediment - is sort of difficult for me.” IfsTryingBelieveMeanCertainDifficultSoundGoalQualityHonestyCreatingMusic IsDon't BelievePretentiousImpediments Author:Milo
“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.” PeopleStatesSocialViolenceActivityCreatingCapableInstitutionsManageMonopoly Author:Murray Bookchin
“Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams actually agreed with that implication and argued that the aristocracy and the people had to have separate houses; this was the only way the power of the aristocracy could be contained.” PeopleWaySaidOrderHouseSocialCreatingCriticsSenateRepresentativesImplicationsAristocracySocial OrderImpliedHouse Of Representatives Author:Gordon S. Wood
“Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.” PeopleDemocracyDependsCreatingCrisisSpeaking Out Author:Howard Zinn
“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.” PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag Author:David Swanson
“I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.” IfsThinkingIdeasStatesDoneGovernmentHappensUnitedMoralUnited StatesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesMilitaryDemandCreatingAbsolutesLifestyleControlledTerritoryPersonal LifePreferenceIdentificationResidentsPositive Change Author:David Swanson
“[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that's why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That's the problem with the American role.” YearsCountryStatesProblemLastsUnitedRolesUnited StatesLimitsCreatingIndependentVery GoodFiftyOther CountriesProblem SolvingInterfereSovereignInterferenceIndependent Country Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.” IfsWorldWantYearsHas BeensSaidMatterStatesProblemNationsUnitedUnited StatesPositionCreatingExpectedAround The WorldAdministrationFiftyInterferePins Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.” PeopleYearsArtIdeasJobsLinesResultsBehindsDesignBalanceSceneCreatingNo IdeaDesignerCollectionsInventingLivelihoodBehind The ScenesInstallationCatwalk Author:Tom Riley
“I just always wanted a platform. In the past, I always dreamed of having a following and a fan base - you know, a group of people just listening and paying attention to what I was making. I think the reality kicked in that you have to make a living so that you have enough time to keep creating, you know? 'Cause if you're not making a living at this, then you're making a living working another job, and if you're working another job, you're spending all your time doing that and can't put enough time into the music.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsEnoughRealityWantedJobsPastCausesAttentionGroupsFansListeningCreatingFollowingSpendingPay AttentionPlatformsEnough TimeJust ListenMaking A Living Author:G-Eazy
“Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.” PeopleNeedsOrderQualitySucceedCreatingBuiltLaborCommunistQuantityQuantity And Quality Author:Joseph Stalin
“Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.” SometimesCreatingNoiseBlockStereotypeRejecting Author:Morgan Parker
“We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.” ThinkingHumansMadeEnoughPastPoliticalSpaceCommonGenerationsHugeEgoCreatingErrorsAvailableAcknowledgeSentimentsSatisfyingMediocrityReignLowestNigeriaNew GenerationHuman PotentialCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorSingle Mindedness Author:Wole Soyinka
“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.” TryingBehaviorCreatingTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalUncertaintyManipulationDivisionWarfareManipulatePsychological WarfareCreating Fear Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“I always listen to music no matter what I'm doing. Music is definitely always something that drives the mood and creating and helps you lock that in and escape to a whole other world.” WorldMatterWholeHelpingCreatingMusic IsNo Matter WhatMoodLocksListening To MusicOther Worlds Author:Rihanna
“I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.” IfsMeanLongStatesFactsGovernmentRunningLevelsUnitedCommonUnited StatesNeededDisciplineCreatingSeriesFavorsBudgetsBalancedUnitsFederal GovernmentDeficitRestrictionMonetaryState GovernmentMoney PowerBalanced BudgetBudget Deficit Author:James M. Buchanan
“America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.” AmericaWinningPovertyEffectsPolicyCreatingElectionFinancialEngagedTensionExploitationPalestineSusceptibleGazaUnderminingHamasBoycottRadicalismOstracism Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“This show [Timeless] is absolutely epic. I simply can't believe the production value for the episodes. Each episode is creating a new world. I just can't think of another television show that trumps the Hindenburg to the 1970s week to week.” ThinkingWorldBelieveShowsValuesWeekTelevisionTrumpCreatingProductionsNew WorldEpisodesEpicTimelessTelevision ShowsHindenburg Author:Misha Collins
“There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughEyePainLawGrowsLimitsCreatingOriginalsVictimTiredPatternsHealFatigueRetaliationPerpetuatingEye For An Eye Author:Shane Claiborne