“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.” PeopleNeedsFeelsArtistEvilCompanySupportRecordsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMusic IsBuyingRecord CompaniesYounger Generation Author:Bob Mould
“I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.” PeopleThinkingNeedsIdeasGenerations Author:Madeleine Albright
“It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.” NeedsOrderViewsGenerationsParticularBirthLateReflectionConception Author:Max Frisch
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.” ThinkingMenNeedsArtTodayPastEasyAnswersHistoryGoneRecordsWrittenGenerationsDangerScaryDrivenBlockIdiotReasoningDelusionExceptionalContinuityRiddleQuicksandLifelinesGood Thinking Book:Occasions and protests Source: Occasions and protests
“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsBelieveChildrenValuesCultureGrowsGenerationsHonestLimitsAdultsTraditionOur ChildrenPainfulBeing HonestFirmParadoxSequenceAdversariesConfrontationLove And Trust Author:Fred Rogers
“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.” WorldNeedsHas BeensTwoRealityAmericaThreePoliticsStrongPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeSimpleLeaderStepsHistoryViolenceGenerationsPolicyCommunicationSpringDirectTradeStrategyCongressPrivilegeTerrorismDecadesIdeologyDiscussionIranRegimesForeign PolicySignalsHostileDiplomacyCivilityDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceFree WorldGood FaithArab SpringDirect Communication Author:Ted Cruz
“For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.” NeedsYearsWarLastsPastPoliticalFantasyPathRightsGenerationsBabyApproachCivil RightsRighteousnessVietnamExitCrusadesRampBaby Boom Author:Joe Klein
“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.” NeedsFirstsMightGrowsParentInterestingBehindsAcceptingRolesGenerationsStageExampleConnectionsComplexesSeparationPassagesGrandparentDriftingMentoring Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.” IfsKnowsNeedsLawNextBoysGenerationsChangedSonRaisesMy SonToiletsNext GenerationIn-lawsHouseworkRefrigeratorsDiapers Author:Anne Roiphe
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.” MenWayNeedsRealityPoliticsSocialCommunityWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyClassHistoryGenerationsEconomicHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsMen And WomenCapitalismStrategyPlanningBest WayTraditionalIdeologyVulnerabilitySexismReverseEqual Rights Author:Stephanie Coontz
“We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.” WantNeedsTryingI CanDreamNextForceAnswersGenerationsMembersNext Generation Author:Barbara Coloroso
“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.” NeedsChildrenEnoughWould BeFormImaginationCitiesGrowingGenerationsTreeYouthQuietGardenFascinatingPeersPalmsJungleEldersVinesQuiet PlaceTropicsShrubsHorticultureAmerican Youth Author:David Fairchild
“Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.” NeedsDifferentAbleMovingGenerations Author:Sam Mendes
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsShouldYearsTwoDreamEarthBeautifulThreeFatherWaitingChangeGenerationsAchieveHundredGrandfatherAnticipate Author:Anton Chekhov
“There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.” WorldNeedsRealityPoliticsUnderstandingCommunityViolenceGenerationsPolicySpringTerrorismIdeologyAwfulMessExplanationForeign PolicyArab Spring Author:Madeleine Albright
“The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.” PeopleNeedsWritingBelieveRealCharacterPassionOpportunityGenerationsSourcePersonalityJudgmentArmyDistanceAvailableOfficialsAssessmentPersonality And Character Author:Rick Atkinson
“I feel education is more important even now for the younger generation than when I was younger. The kids really need to buckle down and get a good education. That's why it's so important to have computer programs and good tutoring programs, so they can have fun in school. It also keeps them out of trouble.” NeedsFeelsImportantKidsSchoolFunGenerationsTroubleComputerProgramDown AndHaving FunYounger GenerationGood EducationBuckles Author:Albert Belle
“We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.” MenNeedsDreamLastsOrderGenerationsDemandTraditionWake UpManhoodFormidableManlinessBad Dream Author:Waller R Newell
“But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.” NeedsShouldValuesSimpleGenerationsEnvironmentalGoldenSustainabilityFuture GenerationEcologicalGolden RuleProspects Author:Alan Thein Durning
“Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.” WayWantNeedsYearsWellsMaySoulProblemForceWaitingGrowthGenerationsEconomicDependsCitizensEqualCapitalismCrisisConstantWestEnvironmentalOilDrySoilFiftySustainabilityDogmaFabricExpandingUnbornPrevailingDrainedNeeds And WantsSoul ForceAquifers Author:Philip Yancey
“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsTryingStatesFoundTermSimpleEconomyEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicMetsDemandCapacityEnvironmentalHarmGoldenSustainabilityCommerceFuture GenerationReducingBetter Than YouGolden RuleAmends Author:Paul Hawken
“We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house warmer than it needs to be, I consume fuel which might help someone else keep warm, or keep a job. When the food I eat is high on the protein chain I contribute to a maldistribution of protein around the world. When I teach my children to be primarily concerned with private gain, I diminish the ranks of public leadership in the rising generation.” WorldNeedsChildrenHelpingMightJobsHouseDecisionTeachGenerationsExampleGainsConcernedEnvironmentalWarmChainsAround The WorldMy ChildrenRisingFuelSustainabilityDiminishProtein Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.” IfsNeedsFeelsGenerationsPhotographDocuments Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.” PeopleNeedsUseOrderBlackRichGenerationsHip HopHipsEnterpriseHopsCan Not Author:Nikki Giovanni
“A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.” PeopleNeedsStatesEyeGenerationsIgnorancePrejudiceResponseCaliforniaGet OverMulticulturalPrevious Generations Author:Luis Valdez
“All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.” WorldNeedsGenerationsBuddhismConflictEmpowermentDignityIndiaSeedsContributionMutualOur FutureHinduismFuture GenerationEndeavourMutual RespectFree World Author:Narendra Modi
“Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life” NeedsLongUseEnergyTermNaturalVisionGenerationsBuildingDevelopmentFutureResourcesMeetingsCompromiseEfficiencyMinimumFlexibilityLong LifeFuture GenerationNatural ResourcesSustainable DevelopmentEnergy Use Author:Richard Rogers
“I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.” NeedsFirstsArtEnoughHomeCultureLeftGenerationsLandFameAmbitionFortuneWideDeliberateAustralianMy Generation Book:Boyer Lectures 2011 Source: Boyer Lectures 2011
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.” IfsNeedsLooksDifferentWarWould BeTodayLinesBusinessPayGenerationsMiddleHonestCostBottomOilEastGlobal WarmingMiddle EastBottom LineFuture Generation Author:Ray Anderson
“I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).” IfsKnowsNeedsBelieveMayLightI BelieveKnow HowGenerationsModernFasterSuspectsSingularity Author:Charles Stross
“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveLongStillsImportantHelpingYoungCultureCommunityFocusAliveSeeingGenerationsIdentityBecomingMajorsAspectObstaclesProducersAgentsFilmmakerAncestorStorytellerLatinoOur CommunityDefendersInvisibilityLatinaMarginalizationSilencing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.” PeopleNeedsKindStatesHelpingMovingGenerationsFiguresThreatI RealizedHelping OthersChecksMoving ForwardBe KindYounger Generation Author:Jeanine Tesori
“Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.” ThinkingWorldNeedsHandsSeemsKidsChallengesGoneHellGenerationsMembersBaskets Author:Steven Petrow
“What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsIdeasNextImaginationPoorGreaterGenerationsPlanetsTenDemandConcernCrisisPreparedNo IdeaFiftyGreater Good Author:Katherine Paterson
“It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.” NeedsI CanSeemsGenerationsPersonalityProudDegreesSellsHumbleConsumersLegacyElectronics Author:John Hodgman
“The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?” NeedsYearsStoriesGenerationsSonArgumentSufficientPrevious Generations Author:Margot Wallstrom
“We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.” KnowsWorldNeedsNextGenerationsPosts Author:Kesha Rogers
“Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign. The real question is, what will we replace his bad policies with? Real patriots understand the need to think ahead, to create a meaningful purpose and direction as we rebuild our nation. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a Post-Obama World.” ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsRealStatesPurposeNextNationsUnitedExistenceUnited StatesGenerationsPolicyThreatMeaningfulBarackPostsPatriotReal QuestionsPurpose And Direction Author:Kesha Rogers
“I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.” PeopleNeedsDoneTermFocusGenerationsMediaFameNew Generation Author:Dan Aykroyd
“. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have -- and it is for this reason that arts go on for generation to generation in spite of the fact that Phidias has already carved and Homer has already sung. The creation, we are informed, was accomplished in seven days with Sunday off, but the recreation will never be accomplished because it is always accomplished anew for each generation of living men.” MenWorldNeedsHumansArtReasonFactsHumanityTermGenerationsCreationGoes OnSevenAccomplishedSpiteSundayNew WorldComprehensionRecreationSeven DaysPhidias Author:Archibald MacLeish
“The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” WorldNeedsMeanLanguageGenerationsLimitsBehaviorSignificantDriversTimeless Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.” ThinkingNeedsShouldShowsGirlFunResponsibilityGenerationsEffectsMediaTelevisionTvsDressesUglyFatsIllegalTaking ResponsibilityTelevision ShowsBeing CoolYounger GenerationBeing Funny Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsMayShowsAbleLevelsTeachGreaterTeacherGenerationsAwarenessWake UpUnconsciousPsychicsSeekersUrgencyNew GenerationHigh LevelSense Of Urgency Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.” IfsMenNeedsWonderGenerationsRaisedAnother Woman Author:Brad Pitt
“Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIdeasDifferentHappensChristianFormTalkingGenerationsAdultsCrossesMissionsExposedTeensWorldviewPrevious GenerationsCultural Change Author:Nancy Pearcey
“What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.” NeedsHeartSoulWholeYoungChurchGenerationsAdultsRaisesYoung AdultBarsHeart And SoulRaising The BarGreatest Generation Author:M. Russell Ballard
“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.” NeedsLooksPersonsWarOrderNextWinningStrongBrainGenerationsPoliticianElectionConservativeNext GenerationStatesmen Author:Winston Churchill
“Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, to rebuild our defense, and for America to secure it's place it world; for us, for our children, and for the next generation.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveChildrenCountryAmericaNextI BelieveGenerationsRepublicanOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountrySecureNext Generation Author:John Kasich
“There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.” PeopleNeedsTryingSocialGenerationsMediaSocial MediaHappy LifeMy Generation Author:Patton Oswalt
“Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.” NeedsFirstsLastsCausesPresidentGenerationsDeterminedReformI Am DeterminedHealth Reform Author:Barack Obama