“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingLittlesStillsHardLostBitsProcessExampleLittle BitMy WayFamiliarity Author:Sara Zarr
“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.” WorldWarStatesAmericaLostCausesUnitedUnited StatesExampleHumorousImportancePainfulWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IGrammarNorth AmericaLeading CausesPainful DeathBad Grammar Author:Dave Barry
“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'” WayChildrenSaidIdeasSchoolLostPresidentInterestAttitudeTeacherGroupsExampleOffersUnionsDareDuesProtestNew IdeasRepresentingFederationTeachers Unions Author:Mitt Romney
“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.” IfsWantLooksRealityOrderLostWishCommonMistakeCarExampleKeysCar Keys Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.” WayAgeFilmLostFrontsExampleCamerasDocumentariesReservations Author:Giovanna Cau
“Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.” WorldWarEndsWantedLastsBeliefLostExampleDareWar Of The WorldsTragicSecond World War Book:Between Tears and Laughter Source: Between Tears and Laughter
“James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.” MenLiteratureLostLandExampleJoyceUlysses Author:Werner Herzog
“Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.” PeopleNeedsBelieveFactsProblemAbleLostI BelieveAnswersWorstExampleDependsDiseaseScientistEnvironmentalSolveAidsOur TimeDisappointedContemptPollutionHivEnvironmental Pollution Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus
“The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.” HomeBigsLostLanguageDifferencesCompanyImpossibleExampleAppealsSubtleTranslationsBig CompaniesLost In Translation Author:Larry Gelbart
“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.” MindBookHomeLostLinesCitiesMagicExamplePagesIntellectualOriginalsGreenDiscriminationOwnersCopiesBookstoresMarkersBrowsing Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.” PeopleWellsUsedThreeLostFourHappenedExampleSkillsMealsBuyingBreastsChickens Author:Michael Pollan
“If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.” IfsLostSidesCompassionPracticeSpecialExampleMethodViolentDestroyedBuddhistResortsDetachmentLove And CompassionMonasteries Author:Dalai Lama
“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.” PeopleWorldLooksHas BeensWholeAbleJobsMovingOrderLostBlackCommunityResultsNumbersExampleTaxesCapitalismLaborThirdsImpactPopulationCorporationsBlack PeopleGlobalizationThird WorldLarge NumbersCheap Labor Author:Angela Davis
“Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.” LostGoneRecordsWrittenRocksExampleLessonsFlowSandOver ItInstructionTides Author:William Ellery Channing
“I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.” ShowsLostDifficultCompassionExampleCircumstancesMercy Author:Muhammad Ali
“In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.” IfsGivingYearsLongIdeasLostOpinionModernExamplePeriodsLowsLet MeStrategyMaking MoneyMisconceptionLong Periods Of TimeLost Money Author:Victor Sperandeo
“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.” IfsLongDoeTwoEndsLostSimpleFeetFrontsExampleArmyDiedCirclesWanderAntsTwo DaysWandering Around Author:James Surowiecki
“I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFirstsSchoolLostRealizingMoralTeacherFailingExampleDutyDrinkingAlcoholSettingSettingsBoardsGradesGovernorsCeoClosetsDrinking AlcoholSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolStock Exchange Author:Charlie Munger
“Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.” IfsStillsYoungLostGoalExamplePrimeCredibilityShredding Author:Mac DeMarco
“In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.” WantGovernmentLostTermPerfectCasesExampleAspectArmyMajorityPopulationFinanceParksSophisticatedElephantsNational ParksPoachingCameroonPoachers Author:Veronika Varekova
“There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.” Has BeensFactsLostOpinionExamplePositionJudgingIntegrityEnormousQualifiedDisabledControversialSpeaking Out Author:Deborah Rhode
“For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.” ThinkingWorldHumansLostStuffAnimalExampleWalkingWalking DeadWeird Stuff Author:James Patterson