“There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.” ForceBehindsExampleBasesProfitEnlightenedAssociation Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.” PeopleSpiritualFormCasesTeacherHappenedExampleEgoSpiritual Teachers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.” ThinkingHardMightEasyPiecesHeardExampleDegreesScalesComposerRegisterLeaning In Author:Paul Lansky
“I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.” WantWantedCulturePiecesExample Author:Paul Lansky
“There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.” PeopleHas BeensSelfSpiritualPoliticalExampleConstantInstanceSpiritual LifeExaminationCombiningPolitical LifeSelf-examination Author:Pankaj Mishra
“It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.” YearsHardFourExampleWestThirtyJustifyOccupationFour YearsIsraeliSettlementGazaSettlersIsraeli Settlements Author:Edward Said
“The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.” WorldAbleFightingMilitaryExampleTradeDefinitionsTerrorismOccupationPalestinianPreciseIsraeliBombingWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Edward Said
“I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I had doubts about becoming a professional philosopher, but the example of two of my teachers, Ezequiel de Olaso and Juan Rodriguez Larreta, made me confirm my original decision.” MadeTwoPhilosophyCharacterDecisionViewsDoubtTeacherExampleBecomingDecidedOriginalsUniversityPhilosopherUnstableJuan Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.” WellsImportantFormPoliticalCertainPrinciplesViolenceGroupsExamplePerspectiveUniversalInjusticeLeagueDefenceSuperpowerIslamists Author:Alison Assiter
“It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.” IfsMeanJesusEasyChurchExample Author:David O. Russell
“I`ve seen all this tussling about what is [Donald] Trump ideologically and Jim Carney said he`s a liberal and people saying, look, he`s winning moderates. Chris Christie is an example of this.” PeopleLooksSaidWinningExampleTrumpModeratesChristie Author:Chris Hayes
“When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".” ThinkingKnowsProblemCausesEmotionToo MuchExampleDrinkingMoodDrinking Too Much Author:Peter Kinderman
“If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.” IfsWayKindSelfPainExampleRegretGenuineOver ItRemorseIrresponsibleAtonementAmendsDeep Regret Author:Marianne Williamson
“Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.” PersonsDoeAbleCertainIndividualEnergyTeachingExampleUniqueTraditionBuddhistGood LifeFortitudeShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.” ThinkingTryingSpiritualStrongForceSocialTermExampleVery StrongBalancedSecularLife BalanceShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.” ThinkingWayMy OwnExampleThank GodSundance Author:John Boyega
“I'd make my whole collection with just one square of fabric. I wouldn't do anything else; everything had to be made from one square. This is just one example.” MadeWholeExampleJust OneCollectionsSquaresFabric Author:Rei Kawakubo
“After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.” WorldExampleInjuredGood ExamplesBoo Boo Author:Simon Weston
“People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.” PeopleNeedsRolesExampleModelsRole Models Author:Coretta Scott King
“I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.” PeopleWantPersonsI CanWould BeArtistImagineExampleBeatsReally CoolTechnoSass Author:Mark Indelicato
“So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.” MeanAbleActorsExampleMaterialsGayPerformersNever Quit Author:Julie Halston
“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeHas BeensLawHumanityCasesCrimeExampleLowsEvidenceTrialsCampsAcceptableDocumentsDocumentaries80sCrimes Against HumanityDeath Camps Author:Marvin Hier
“An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.” KnowsFeelsKindPlayHomeBigsSchoolSongProcessNumbersKnow HowExampleNotesDetailsUnbelievableRehearsalJasonMy BoyfriendMattressesSchool Plays Author:Sarah Steele
“Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?” ArtistCultureStrongStudyIssuesRightsWrittenExamplePoetFeministGenderActivismNarrativeVisualsNativePerformersDisabilityVeinsPublishTranslationsArtworkEnvironmentalistSpoken WordVisual ArtPhdsTactileReproductive RightsVisual ArtistBraille Author:Deborah Smith
“I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.” WritingFormFoundExampleGood Examples Author:Nicholas Royle
“Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.” ProblemLawIndividualCommunityStupidExampleTasteBiggerCompetitionNightmareAestheticRivalsMerchantsInsufficient Author:Bob Frank
“I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.” TryingStillsSongPerfectExampleEmotionalGrunt Author:Ian Christe
“The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.” PeopleStatesLawExampleMajorityCategoriesGenocide1930sUndesirableSterilization Author:Michael Sandel
“I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire." That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSaidWarPlayEyeFireExamplePerceptionVery GoodRingsCeaseSentimentsAlliesGood ExamplesLebanonMuslim WorldAnti-american Author:Michael Scheuer
“We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers.” StillsTwoWorryGroupsExampleThirdsThreatWestInspiredIraqTraditionalDestroyedAlsAlliesAl Qaeda Author:Michael Scheuer
“I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.” ThinkingWritingLittlesHomeExampleEnglandCoalWales Author:John Gimlette
“I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.” WritingHappensFeltCitiesExampleComfortableLonelyInspiredEverydaySnowRelaxed Author:Benjamin Clementine
“One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.” DoeStoriesArtistExampleInternetSittingBasesMy FavoriteRapMythSwimmingPoolBullshitFavorites ThingsMansionsSitting AroundSwimming PoolPerpetuatingRap Artist Author:DJ Shadow
“What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.” MindBodyHappensEarthConsciousnessExampleHappeningsMind And Body Author:Eyvind Kang
“There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.” CertainSongLove IsRecordsExampleProductions Author:Beck
“I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of "Animal" for example, so you think, "That was probably a pretty good song, because people feel like it's satisfying to just play it with one instrument accompanying it."” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksPlaySongAnimalExampleInstrumentsGuitarSatisfying Author:Andrew Wyatt
“I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.” BelieveI BelieveBornLeaderExampleCapacityForgivingEndureHardshipBorn LeadersMandela S Author:Rory McIlroy
“The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.” WayFocusExampleHappeningsBest WayAfghanistan Author:Tim Hetherington
“There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.” FeelingsMillionsExampleJazz Author:Zooey Deschanel
“If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.” IfsThinkingGivingMeanMightMovingCultureExampleWillingGiving UpWorshipChinaChineseGermanySomewhere ElseHomeland Author:Michael Emerson
“There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.” IfsTryingTwoDifferentShowsSpiritNightLevelsResultsAchieveExamplePerformancesConstantMusicalPatternsPerformingFixedPhasesBroadwayImprovisationSampleLoopsShuffleBroadway Shows Author:Thomas Bangalter
“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTryingIdeasRealExampleReaderConvenientTroublesomeGadflies Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensTwoAmericaCultureSecretInfluenceExampleHundredConstantBritishIndianAutobiographyDescribingThoroughScotchIntermarriage Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.” KnowsTryingMindWarGovernmentAmericaCultureSexKnowingExampleDiversityConfusionCivil WarCanadaTreatmentRacistImmigrantsMexicoNaziAdmirableCentral AmericaCanadian GovernmentCroatians Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It is more helpful to think of dreams as reflections of the present rather than as pictures of the future. A dream of a car out of control, for example, does not indicate that a car accident will occur in the future. It does mean, however, that the dreamer is feeling out of control in his or her life right now. It is important not to be superstitious about dreams.” ThinkingMeanDoeImportantFeelingsDreamCarExampleRight NowReflectionAccidentsHelpfulDreamerSuperstitiousCar Accident Author:Charles McPhee
“Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.” PersonsShowsDreamHoursWatchesMediaExampleTelevisionNewsOriginalsAverageAverage Person Author:Charles McPhee
“You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It's appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner's a perfect example of that - he just always looks so chic.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldLooksCertainPerfectExampleShould HaveAppropriateDressingsHow You FeelChic Author:Tommy Ton
“A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."” PeopleIfsYearsI CanJobsPassionRealizingCitiesNew YorkExamplePursueMiserableExpensiveNew York CitySomewhere ElseMy Passion Author:Tony Hsieh