“The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.” NeedsDifficultNumbersEconomyFindingsCreditFirmChange For The BetterLag Author:Alan Greenspan
“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.” ArtImportantWholeMomentsHandsRunningPoliticalLyingGivenNumbersFindingsInfinitePossessionCirclesEndlessChainsFirmGuaranteesLinksViciousPolitical LifeVicious Circles Book:What Is to Be Done? Source: What Is to Be Done?
“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.” ThinkingDoeReasonSeemsFallForceSocialNumbersStruggleImagineImpossibleFindingsRelationCirclesReason WhyContractsPerpetualFall BackSocial ContractAbsolutismPerpetual Motion Book:General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
“The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTryingMindHardFacesNumbersRocksMountainFindingsOkayMetaphorHardestClimbsClimbingFunny ThingsScreenplaysClimbing MountainBlindfoldedClimbing Up Author:Michael Arndt
“Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.” MindStillsPurposeUniverseNumbersKnownKeysFindingsInfinitePatternsParadoxConstructsEnigma Author:Agnes Denes
“Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.” PeopleIfsHateUnderstandingNumbersBrainTypeFindingsCapableLogicEnglandHate YouLarge NumbersEliot Author:D. J. Taylor
“I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.” WantGivingNumbersAudienceSweetBalanceFindingsPhonesSpots Author:Jinkx Monsoon
“There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.” PeopleImportantActionCoursesNationsDifferencesNumbersDemocracyAchieveFindingsTasksSufficientPermitBetter Life Author:Robert McNamara
“I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.” ShouldReasonLightFunNumbersFindingsPressureShiningInjusticeComplicatedJournalismBeastAppropriateEntertainingAmusingFinding Out The Truth Author:David Remnick
“A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.” ThinkingMayMeanArtistResultsNumbersCreativeExpressionFindingsMusicianCooksImpulseVisualsLiarsVisual ArtGood CookVisual ArtistCompulsive Liar Author:Steve Albini
“The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.” MenWould BeNumbersDangerousFindingsFaultsMelancholyConsideringConsolation Author:George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
“If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two facts. One, that they didn`t even understand the base of their own party, white working class voters who you know what, don`t care about tax cuts for the rich, really aren`t interested in the things that the elite part of their party want, including immigration reform. And number two, they spent eight months avoiding finding opposition research to use against the guy who was becoming the front-runner in their party that they don`t want.” IfsKnowsWantTwoImportantFactsUseCareGuyWhitePartyNumbersClassRichCuttingFrontsMonthsBecomingRepublicanTaxesFindingsResearchIncludingDon't CareEightImmigrationReformOppositionVotersEstablishmentElitesWorking ClassRunnersAvoidingTax CutsImmigration ReformWho You Know Author:Chris Hayes
“I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.” IfsHandsMightMovingUniverseLeftFeltNumbersStepsFindingsFingersSentencesCodeClockRanCracksSecondsCountingLike SomethingSlipperyRefrigeratorsLeft Hand Author:Mary Karr