“I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.” PeopleThinkingShouldI CanHomeSidesProudCreatingStoresBe ProudHardware Author:Aida Turturro
“An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.” JobsSidesGrowthPresidentVisionEconomicWallRepublicanCreatingDividesPresident ObamaEconomic GrowthImposingPipelineKeystonesCreating JobsKeystone Pipeline Author:Fred Upton
“Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.” ThinkingWantHelpingHappensSidesConditionsPositive ThinkingCreatingGood Things Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.” ThinkingKindIdeasEndsSometimesBigsSidesInformationProudCreatingImpactSpreadLarksBig Impact Author:Jonah Peretti
“I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. Im into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.” TryingArtHouseEnjoySidesCuttingFashionDesignInspireCreatingEdgesArtisticInteriorsInterior DesignCutting EdgeCreating Things Author:Chris Kirkpatrick
“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” IfsWorldFirstsMayLawStrongSidesHistoryPlanetsBalanceThousandCreatingHundredWeakLifetimeFinishedSecureAdministrationBeachEndeavorCooperationNew WorldSuspicionBoth SidesJungleBalance Of Power Author:John F. Kennedy
“I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.” ThinkingMomentsSidesInterestingWonderMagicCreatingPracticalsMost InterestingInteresting ThingsSplendorAutomation Author:Genevieve Bell
“With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.” TryingKindMadeWholeCharacterStoriesUseLightOpportunitySidesBrainCreativeFiguresObjectsCreatingDigitalTransitionIntegratingAdventImaging Author:John Dykstra
“One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.” IfsGivingMindHumansCultureSidesSpacePossibilityActivityLetting GoCreatingGreedOneselfServingCompassionateWiserCompulsion Author:Rafe Martin
“I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time.” LongStillsTwoDifferentKidsMotherArtistSidesCreativeMomCreatingLong TimeHatsBottlesBeing A MotherBeing An ArtistBreastfeeding Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasUseSidesDangerousBuildingProjectsCreatingToolsAnd LoveInvestingGreat IdeaYourself And Love Author:Biz Stone
“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.” PeopleTryingHumansHas BeensSaidSidesSuccessfulTakenSourceBearsEatingCreatingIndependentSpeciesAvailableListsInstanceRegulationThreatenedBoth SidesGarbageEndangered SpeciesGrizzliesYellowstoneGrizzly Bears Author:David Quammen
“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
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” KnowsHumansImportantShowsRememberSidesConsciousnessCreatingImportant ThingsProfoundGreat ThingsMaking MoneyStreamsCoinsAcidPsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessLsdPsychedelic ExperienceMy Biography Author:Steve Jobs