“I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.” PeopleGivingTryingBelieveIdeasChristianJesusFeltAnswersChristianityEnvironmentHeardExampleSonInstitutionsPlentyPostsHonorableVividMarketplacePresentationChristendom Author:Timothy Keller
“I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment.” PeopleWayWantNeedsTryingLooksI CanSometimesHardUsedFightingEnvironmentFocusSelfishContrastStarks Author:Matt Diaz
“Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.” TryingBelieveI BelieveEnvironmentPlayerReadyDisciplineOrganizationI Believe InHotelFreakControl Freak Author:Pat Riley
“Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.” GivingTryingDifferentJobsCreativityEnvironmentCircumstancesRealmsDo The BestDifferent Jobs Author:Michael Rapaport
“If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.” IfsThinkingTryingImportantEconomyEnvironmentBreathsEnvironmentalist Author:Guy R. McPherson
“I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.” PeopleWantGivingTryingYearsI CanPlayDesireGamesRecordsEnvironmentHeroLuckyAvailableDecentReasonableSpoilDeliveringGood Years Author:Warren Buffett
“I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.” PeopleThinkingTryingMadeCareUsedPayAttentionEnvironmentClimateClimate ChangeDon't CarePay AttentionI Don't CarePhrasesYards Author:Robert Redford
“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.” PeopleTryingPersonsHelpingStoriesHappensEffortBehindsEnvironment Author:Benjamin Carson
“What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a grasp on what it is. A lot of our influence was about getting stuck on a level on any of those video games, where you find yourself caught and you can't get out, and it's maddening. We talked a lot about that.” IfsWayFeelsTryingHardGamesLevelsEnvironmentInfluenceShotsCaughtStuckVideoFinding Yourself Author:Remi Aubuchon
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“BlogHer would not exist...if we hadn't made a commitment that the only way to work with women in an entirely new record-breaking technological environment was to listen as hard as we could and try to deliver services that they might be interested in.” IfsWayTryingMadeHardMightRecordsEnvironmentCommitmentTechnologicalRecords Breaking Author:Lisa Stone
“But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.” IfsWorldTryingActionCoursesEnergyWaitingGrowthTermDealsQualityEnvironmentPolicySourceDependsProveAmbitionEconomicsIntentionNobleAccessNuclearSufficientComplexityAgendasStabilityCoalQuality Of LifeWisestEliminatingAlarmists Author:John H. Sununu
“So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.” TryingUseTodayJobsValuesEnvironmentFocusProduceProductsSafeCreatingResourcesExcellenceEnvironmentalCustomersAlternativesCompetitorsDo The BestBest JobSafe EnvironmentCreating Value Author:Charles Koch
“One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.” NeedsTryingHumansReasonEnvironmentRocksToolsAvailableWoodsExcellentUsersDnaOur EnvironmentAdaptable Author:Annalee Newitz
“One of the scariest things to me was, I really feel like I'm a pretty even-keeled person with a good outlook and respect level, but in that environment, deep within the character, you see how easy it is to go to that place because you're one-upping each other and it's this heavy environment filled with young men trying to make an impression. It's dangerous. It's something that I became very conscious of afterwards.” MenFeelsTryingPersonsCharacterYoungEasyLevelsEnvironmentDangerousConsciousFilledHeavyImpressionYoung ManOutlookDeep Within Author:Nick Jonas
“The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.” PeopleWantTryingEnvironmentModernMediaStupidSellsBitesBullshitCrapStaticModern Media Author:Brad Listi
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.” PeopleTryingIdeasHappensSongEnvironmentStudios Author:John Darnielle
“I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.” TryingFirstsPhilosophyWould BeBreakNovelEnvironmentCapturePressured Author:Karan Bajaj
“I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.” ThinkingTryingUseAnimalEnvironmentPlanetsBenefitsResourcesIntentionHelpfulHurtful Author:Russell Simmons
“The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.” TryingCharacterChoicesDifficultMoralEnvironmentUniversalShouldersGenreThemeSci FiHostileGenre IsMoral ChoicesPolarizingHostile EnvironmentUniversal Themes Author:Jaime Murray
“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some kind of solid ground in an environment that was quicksand in my life, it's that first line just kills me all the time: "Well it's just that your sister said you'd be OK."” TryingFirstsWellsKindLongSaidMomentsLinesEnvironmentListeningLong TimeBeatsConfusionTeenagerKill MeKevinQuicksand Author:Andy Kim
“What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.” GivingTryingActorsCan DoEnvironmentBest Work Author:Curtis Hanson
“I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds you as possible. As you see, my work has become increasingly global. My presence in the world has become increasingly global.” WorldTryingEnvironmentImagineSensitiveSurroundImagine That Author:Kehinde Wiley
“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.” NeedsTryingDoeProcessCompanyCreativeEnvironmentTeamProjectsFunctionManagementStructureFruitBoundariesSellingMaking MoneyBudgetsIntimateCreative ProcessTranslateInteriorsMarketplaceCreative WorkMilestoneAdministrativeIntervening Author:John Kao
“I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.” TryingEnvironmentSchedulesRelaxed Author:Ben Affleck
“When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanStillsI CanStatesForceTechnologyEnvironmentComputerModelsDepartmentEmployeeDevicesDesksSecretaryNew Environment Author:Hillary Clinton
“There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish a better classroom environment, and the results and transformations were profound. It's impossible to ignore, and we make some passing references in my film, but 'A Room to Breathe' is a closer look at just how powerful meditation can be.” TryingLooksSchoolFilmRoomsResultsPowerfulEnvironmentMeditationWonderfulImpossibleTransformationProfoundBreathePassingPassingsClassroomDocumentariesInstructors Author:James Redford
“I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.” PeopleThinkingTryingAbleTermEnvironmentDebateMeaningfulStatementsDiscussionCriticizeTrashSuccessorsTrash Talk Author:George W. Bush
“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsLooksStatesDoneFightingCommunityJusticeEnvironmentEconomicEmpowermentPoliceGood ThingsCongressFolksCriminalsReformHopefullyAccountabilitySmall BusinessLegislatureCriminal JusticeState LegislaturesEconomic EmpowermentCommunity Organizing Author:Keith Ellison
“We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels.” WayShouldTryingTwoDifferentHelpingUseChoicesEnvironmentEffectsWorkersHarmRadicalDifferent WaysFuelConvinceFossilsFossil FuelOrganizerTwo ChoicesPerpetuating Author:Noam Chomsky
“Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.” TryingLiteratureEnvironmentAnticipate Author:Kevin Kelly
“I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.” TryingYoungEnvironmentGraceFansCompetingCampaigning Author:Simon Helberg
“Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, and work for fair trade rules. Well, it's exactly the same for human rights - from non-discrimination to the basic rights to food, safe water, education and health care. We are talking rights not needs. There are standards that governments have signed up to - but nobody is holding them to account.” NeedsTryingHumansWellsLooksGovernmentCareWaterTalkingEnvironmentRightsSafeStandardsFairsAccountsRegardTradeCleanHuman RightsLifestyleDiscriminationHealth CareIndigenousIndigenous PeopleFair TradeBasic Rights Author:Mary Robinson
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.” WorldFeelsTryingLooksHelpingShowsFeelingsMovingArtistSongLanguageSoundBlackEnvironmentParticularTvsHappeningsSkinsTwentiesSmellStatementsTv ShowsAmerican WomanMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?” ThinkingWorldTryingMadeCountryStatesTodayLosesUnitedUnited StatesCreativeEnvironmentMajorsIntellectualMathematicsMedicineAstronomyRegionsTransitionValleysEngineeringAgricultureCompassInnovativeFertileComplacentSiliconBaghdadSilicon ValleyIntellectual Capital Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.” TryingAmericaCoursesEvilHouseLeftGrowthNaturalCitiesEconomyEnvironmentMovementAreasClaimsTownsOilEmployeeOppositionGasMainstreamTwinsEnvironmentalistShowing UpDakotaNatural GasFrackingNorth Dakota Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.” PeopleFeelsTryingSometimesHardForceEnvironmentMilitaryDifficultyShoesMilitary Family Author:Jon Stewart