“Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.” WayLooksLittlesSometimesBigsUniverseSeeingPlanetsDependsBlessedRoundsInvisibleVisibleCursed Author:Bruce Cockburn
“People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLooksSaidBigsGovernmentGuyCompanyDependsBenefitsWorshipRegardStudiosOne WayLook At MeDividends Author:Walt Disney
“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.” BigsStupidDependsIndustryOilPropagandaCoalTobaccoMiningDrillingBig OilUranium MiningTobacco Industry Author:Jeff Goodell
“Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.” BigsPoliticalTurnsOpportunityEconomicMissingEventsDependsErrorsSurpriseFinancialAshamedClientsSay AnythingCumulativeOutlandishBig Surprises Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.” WayWantLittlesI CanEndsMatterBigsActorsStuffDependsScalesHolesMy WayPaychecks Author:Alan Arkin
“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.” TwoFactsBigsSidesAnswersIssuesDependsResponseRangeTwo SidesRight AnswersBig Questions Author:Linus Torvalds
“The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your own comic. You can have your comic printed by the same people that print Marvel and DC and Image's comics for, I think, it's about $2,000 for a print run. So you can Kickstart it and get your own comic made. It depends on what is considered success to you. So if you need to be published by the Big Two to feel that you've made it, well, you should start working very hard.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldWellsLittlesMadeTwoBookHardBigsRunningSecretWallDependsMade ItComicDirtyPrintComic BookPublishPrintedWorking Very Hard Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick
“The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.” PeopleYearsBelieveCountryProblemBigsFacesNextMillionsDangerDependsOceanNewsScientistFishesBillionsChainsFishingCrucialGood NewsProteinLivelihoodBig ProblemsFood ChainOverfishing Author:Ted Danson
“The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.” IfsShouldLooksImportantBigsRememberCoursesWhitePartyFrontsTearsColorDependsPercentBiggerDressesImportant ThingsPopulationExcuseIdiotArticlesClothingsGorgeousLifelongBridesStunning Author:Mimi Pond
“It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.” KindBigsWantedDarkDependsScriptsCleverRisingReally Clever Author:Amelia Warner
“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTryingDifferentBigsWould BeRunningSchoolDependsEgoHigh SchoolForgottenSeekingVarietyDifferent WaysConsensusBig Ego Author:Madeleine Albright
“I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.” PeopleKnowsWritingLooksBigsChanceDependsAdvantageMeetingsFavorsWho I AmDoing MeChance Meeting Author:Paul Theroux
“The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes.” IfsKnowsFeelsTwoEndsHardDoneBigsWantedMastersDependsSceneShotsTwentiesComplicatedBelieverTwenty Somethings Author:Stanley Tucci
“When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsDoeBigsThreeCompanyPlayerDependsSucceedTenPercentDetermineGreat PeopleBig Companies Author:Steve Jobs
“It depends what competition you are in. When you go to the big meets it's all about who touches in first. You've got to get into that race and into that frame of mind so that you're ready to race and you're ready to work hard and finish first.” MindFirstsHardBigsRaceReadyHard WorkDependsCompetitionFrame Of Mind Author:Jazmin Carlin
“I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindBigsCoursesFailingDependsTeethGapsAssetsPerformersFadesCheeksLongevityCommodityCutenessChubby Cheeks Author:Fred Savage
“Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.” LifePersonsBigsHappensSuccessSpiritFightingDependsDisciplineAchievementBig ThingsFighting SpiritHappiness And Success Author:George Allen
“Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.” ThinkingImportantBigsJobsNextViewsDependsPromotion Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"” PeopleBigsTurnsBoysLike YouDependsUniversalElectionInstrumentsDemocraticChiefsPlatformsDictatorshipDictator Author:Dorothy Thompson
“In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.” IfsThinkingPlayHelpingBigsGuyGamesHurtMistakeStepsWorryFiveFourDependsBaseballBallsBasesBiggerUglyThrownMaking MistakesQuartersSchemesBangsOccasionalBlundersBig PictureAggressivenessOutfielders Author:Mike Scioscia
“I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?” IfsThinkingWayGivingWritingFirstsPlayCharacterStoriesBigsActionActorsFoundNamesStrongTermWalksPrinciplesNovelGoes OnDependsSceneSpotsPlentyThings To DoTwistsJuice Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.” PeopleMadeBigsRaceKnownLordDependsBreathsHatsPlusBreedingTexanAnthropologistsPropagation Author:J. Frank Dobie
“The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk.” ShouldWritingPersonsIdeasBigsGivenLevelsCreativeDependsMeetingsListsAgendasDesksItemsBig IdeasCreative IdeasFollow Up Author:Barbara Corcoran
“I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.” SometimesBigsDependsBiggerScaredRaccoonsPossums Author:Vince Staples
“Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.” LooksBigsTermDifferencesDependsFitShapesDressesImpactMereCuteLengthClothingsPeterCollarsJuvenileBig Impact Author:Lily Collins
“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.” DoeBigsDifferencesDecisionPoorTechnologyGroupsPossibilityDependsOffersMajorsInnovationPressesInvestmentPlentyPublishingCoercionPublicationPrintingSmall GroupsPrinting PressDesktopAdvanced TechnologyCapital InvestmentDesktop Publishing Author:Noam Chomsky
“It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty. You won't ever pitch for the big leagues, for example. But I believe anyone, regardless of age, can write if he or she is willing to do the work, and I'm talking about spending at least an hour or two at it almost every day for five to ten years.” IfsWritingYearsBelieveStillsTwoDreamBigsMightAgeI BelieveHoursTalkingFiveExampleWillingDependsTenSpendingLeagueYour DreamsFiftySixty Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.” KnowsYearsKindDifferentSometimesBigsFunDependsPopsMoodContemporaryAll KindsEightyAmyTranceJust For FunDifferent MusicOutkast Author:Olga Kurylenko
“The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.” MenSelfBigsQualityVisionDependsAchievementSizeAccomplishment Author:Orison Swett Marden