“There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.” ThinkingWorldWellsDoneUseTermCommunityBuildingProductsInvolvedSkillsCreatingGood ThingsConnectedBuilding A Business Author:Jeff Raikes
“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.” PeopleKnowsGivingReasonHelpingJobsLostDifferencesCompanyInvolvedRepublicanCreatingPicksCapitalismGood ThingsCleanAlbumsBonesGapsVentureRomneyFundingIsmsVultureVenture CapitalCreating Jobs Author:Rick Perry
“I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.” ThinkingNeedsWellsHas BeensFilmTermActingInvolvedSceneDirectorsCreating Author:George Clooney
“Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.” KnowsYearsIssuesFiveInvolvedTenCreatingCreating SomethingPersonal Issues Author:Steve Martin
“An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.” CommunityQualityInvolvedCreatingNeighborhoodActivistAdmirableAdmirable Qualities Author:Jasmine Guy
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.” WayWritingSometimesJobsGreaterInvolvedCreatingProducers Author:J. J. Abrams
“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.” SchoolFormCultureStrongParentAbilityLevelsTalentStudentsBuildingInvolvedOfficeAchievementCreatingExpectationsUltimateStrategyExtraordinaryAccountabilityAggressiveClassroomOfferingDeliberatePublic SchoolOrganisationEducation SystemHigh ExpectationsAbility To ChooseStudent Achievement Author:Wendy Kopp
“I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantFilmNovelInvolvedCreatingPrivilegeEscapingEscapism Author:Ben Barnes
“My deal is to understand: you trust me, I trust you. It's a two-way street. Developing that happens over time. It's hard. I look forward to that. I look forward to being a part of these guys' lives. This isn't just about ball. This is about creating a brand for yourself. This is about setting you apart for the rest of your life. That's kind of been how I do it. I look forward to being involved in these guys' lives. Part of that is winning some ballgames. I've got a blueprint on how that works, yet every place is different, so you need to adjust the blueprint based on what's there.” WayNeedsLooksKindTwoDifferentHardHappensGuyWinningDealsStreetsInvolvedCreatingBallsSettingSettingsBrandsDevelopingTrust MeRest Of Your LifeTwo WaysBlueprintsI Trust YouBallgameTwo Way Street Author:Jim McElwain
“We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.” ThinkingTreeProduceProductsInvolvedPaperCreatingSolutionsPlantIncrediblesAlternativesMake SenseLogicalReach OutEfficientGet InvolvedTanksCropsInvitingPulpBamboo Author:Ian Somerhalder
“This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.” InformationInvolvedCreatingStuckBlockGet InvolvedWriter's BlockObsessing Author:Thom Yorke
“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.” PeopleWritingPersonsImportantFilmMovingThreeReadingMagicInvolvedCreatingImportant ThingsDrawingComicGutters Author:Neil Gaiman
“As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're kind of creating your own.” IfsKindLittlesActorsVisionPiecesInvolvedCreatingFulfillingPuzzles Author:Julia Stiles
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesJobsThreeEnergyUnitedNumbersHalfCompanySituationUnited StatesInvolvedCreatingDirectIndependenceTradeDollarsInvestmentPopulationEnvyBillionsEnormousPeacefulBordersCanadaFriendlyMexicoMexicanWithin ReachGeopoliticalCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceCanada And The United States Author:Alan Bersin
“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.” PeopleWritingThreeReadingMagicMovementInvolvedCreatingIllusionDrawingPassingPassingsComicTime PassingTime PassesIllusion Of Time Author:Neil Gaiman
“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.” WorldFirstsEndsMatterFactsProblemPoliticalKnowingHugeInvolvedCreatingHungerHipsNot KnowingWorld HungerPolitical Will Author:Jeff Bridges
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.” WorldSoulRunningInvolvedSolitudeCreatingSeasonsStayingCyclesPsych Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes