“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.” IfsFeltFearChanceEnemyGrowingRiskOffersCreatingMy FriendsSomething NewCreating Something Author:Eartha Kitt
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.” IfsFeelsMindLittlesIdeasRoomsEnemyCreativityCreativeBedCreatingFilledSelfishBitterInstanceNegativityCreating SomethingCreative Ideas Author:David Lynch
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.” FirstsMayChildrenAgeEnemyTeacherTeachingDangerousIgnoranceCivilizationCreatingOur ChildrenStupidityDestroyedNonsenseArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.” IdeasEnemyImpossibleDangerousCreatingIdealsMurderIdeologyDangerous ThingsMassacres Author:Michael Haneke
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.” HumansWarOpportunityHuman BeingsCommonEnemyPovertyIgnoranceDependsDiseaseCreatingWeaponsAbsenceNuclearNuclear WeaponsWorth LivingLife Worth LivingTrue PeaceCommon Enemy Author:Barack Obama
“When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.” YearsTurnsThreeStepsEnemyFivePlansTvsCreatingModelsConceptsRussiaErasGiantsFive YearsNightmareSovietTurn-onMissilesFive Year Plans Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.” IfsFirstsHas BeensTwoDifferentWarCountryWould BePoliticalForceGoalEnemyAirKeysConflictCreatingRateExtremesObjectivesHardshipDeniedGeographyAir ForceUnleashed Author:Ashraf Ghani
“Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.” CountryOpportunityEnemyDemocracyOughtCreatingHuntsIsisWilsonTake ControlCreating Opportunities Author:Ted Cruz
“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
“We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.” PeopleNeedsLittlesCountryUsePoliticalEnemyClassMediaCreatingImportanceWho We AreLittle ThingsFrictionChasms Author:Benjamin Carson