“Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.” ThinkingYearsHumansGenerationsEmpowermentIndiaPlantFruitDecadesGrain Author:Narendra Modi
“I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.” ThinkingDoeChristianLeadershipChurchGenerationsOrdinaryMeetingsBoundariesSettingSettingsOrdinary Things Author:Francis Chan
“All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.” ThinkingLeftMy OwnImpossibleGenerationsDeterminationSlaveAthlete Author:Michael Johnson
“Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensGenerations Author:Paul Auster
“I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.” ThinkingWayLooksPersonsKidsParentGenerationsLifetimeWow Author:Tony Parsons
“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.” ThinkingWorldWholeParentInterestingCasesGenerationsInformationInternetEasierAdultsGainsTradeDigitalActivistDomainYoutubeIntriguingNew GenerationYounger GenerationBrewing Author:Serj Tankian
“I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.” ThinkingLongSeemsArtistWatchesGenerationsHealthyPureFinancialFasterMaking MoneyVery HappySpeculation Author:Brice Marden
“I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.” PeopleThinkingWayLife IsImagineGenerationsImagine ThatConvenientMessyParanoiaManageableControlling Everything Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"” ThinkingWellsKidsLeftGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsMomWorkforce Author:Kathryn Hahn
“I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.” IfsThinkingRecordsGenerationsMovedStores80sCdsRecord Stores Author:Julianne Hough
“You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.” PeopleThinkingValuesNiceGenerationsSpecialUnderstoodOutstandingRespectfulYounger GenerationWarhol Author:Ai Weiwei
“Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.” IfsThinkingLooksLongTakenGenerationsHappenedDestroyedCommunismFrighteningGrandparentReally Sad Author:Anton Yelchin
“All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongHas BeensYoungGenerationsFashionWorshipLong TimeAppreciate Author:Alber Elbaz
“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
“If things do get better in Iraq, I'm saying as someone who thinks the war was a mistake. I'm saying that is cause for us all to have a huge party. It's a big deal if things get better. Because if they don't get better, our country is going to be hurt for generations.” IfsThinkingWarCountryBigsCausesHurtDealsPartyMistakeGenerationsHugeIraqOur CountryGet BetterBig Deal Author:Tucker Carlson
“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
“I like to see what future generations are thinking about.” ThinkingGenerationsFuture Generation Author:Billie Jean King
“I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.” PeopleThinkingWayArtMomentsCertainChallengesBrainGenerationsInvolvedBiggerFingersConsensusDefiningOur GenerationDoodling Author:Edward Norton
“I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.” ThinkingMovingRaceClassGenerationsReaderClassic Author:Rita Dove
“I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.” PeopleThinkingWorldBookLastsFacesYoungGenerationsRight NowConcernedMessDedicatedYounger Generation Author:Kirk Douglas
“I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.” ThinkingWayShouldIdeasDoneAbleJobsGuyNextCompanyGenerationsDutyHappeningsMetaphorWork OutSymbolsStaffComplaintsNext GenerationBetter Ways Author:Anita Roddick
“I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.” PeopleThinkingTwoTogetherIndividualGenerationsHeroAddPairsOur Generation Author:Theodore Zeldin
“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsPersonsHas BeensBookSeemsLostGrowsKnow HowGoneGenerationsTwentiesGoldenThirtySurvivorThirty YearsOverlookedOld ThingsOld Person Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.” ThinkingKnowsMenGenerationsWindCivilizationMen And WomenRemindersWhipsCanyonsThinking Man Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveHomeTodayGenerationsMonthsBirdYears AgoBlueDisappointmentFiftyEntitledDoomedCagesOur Generation Author:George Jonas
“I think in other generations, the 50s, the 60s, people went into religion and they were really involved with religion. I found that religion doesn't answer certain unique questions people have about faith and belief.” PeopleThinkingCertainFoundBeliefAnswersGenerationsInvolvedUnique Author:James Van Praagh
“I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.” IfsThinkingKnowsMightKidsViolenceGenerationsRaises Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.” PeopleThinkingLittlesDifferentFilmGenerationsDangerCongressFormerOfficialsEmployeeShockingNsaStaggeringElected OfficialsSnowdenWhistleblowersDifferent GenerationsShocking Things Author:Laura Poitras
“I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.” ThinkingWayHumansTwoWarSelfHardIndividualViewsGenerationsHuman NatureBearsLessonsEmpowermentEmbraceInstinctNotionAttractionCollectivesSwingsLockedPreservationAnnihilationSelf PreservationErosHard WayEnticingThanatos Author:Chris Hedges
“Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.” ThinkingWellsIdeasMovingUsedTurnsForgetCitiesEnvironmentGenerationsWorstPolicyRepublicanClintonProfitUsed To BeAdministrationMexicoPresidencyEmbeddedThis GenerationMoving InMexico CityI'm Sad Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.” PeopleThinkingGenerationsPassionateMy Generation Author:Sasha Grey
“I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.” ThinkingWayShouldLastsChoicesGenerationsFitAspectIndependentSatisfiedBrandsNew GenerationArrivingMultiplicityLast Place Author:John Avlon
“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 think my generation is a lost generation in a way.” ThinkingWayLostGenerationsMy GenerationLost Generation Author:Nico Muhly
“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingImportantWholeDiesReadingBornDifferencesGenerationsActivityBedCreaturesSixWideBillionsSchemesIrrelevantInsignificantFuture GenerationWriting And Reading Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.” PeopleThinkingGivingStuffInterestingDoubtGenerationsBenefitsReputationVery InterestingInteresting ThingsBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Damon Lindelof
“I can be a voice. I can use my platform to help the younger generation. I think it's really important for them to understand how to do things the right way, and not just in sports, in life in general.” ThinkingWayI CanImportantHelpingUseSportsVoiceGenerationsPlatformsRight WayYounger Generation Author:Allyson Felix
“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindHas BeensSeemsMightAblePastResultsGenerationsErrorsAcknowledge Author:Michael Crichton
“I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.” ThinkingLooksCountryChanceMillionsGenerationsBabyOur CountryFuture GenerationBarbarians Author:Marco Rubio
“We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.” ThinkingWorldMayDoeBigsRunningNationsGenerationsSavingSavingsBorrowing Author:Paul Samuelson
“I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFirstsMeanGamesSocialSexDealsMoralGenerationsEffectsSeriousApproachAwakeningContactConfusedRealisingRealisedOur GenerationMillenniumBeing Played Author:Brian Molko
“The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingChildrenMadeI CanRealSeemsWantedRememberTermLossGenerationsEffectsExampleAmbitionSlaveryHearingGravityPosteritySeriousness Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.” PeopleThinkingWorldCertainFoundAnswersResponsibilityGenerationsDegreesDeserveInfiniteSeriesLeavingPassingPassingsSelfishnessConsiderationCourtesyDisturbedAffirmativePassing ThroughEvasion Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.” ThinkingWayWellsLooksNextGenerationsHealthyAccountsShameCatholicSentimentsNext GenerationDoseMockeryDerision Author:Reza Aslan
“I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.” ThinkingWantPastWealthGenerationsHappenedBlessing Author:Warren Buffett
“Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life. I think in a lot of ways unions aren't necessary anymore, because what they were started for, I think a lot of those conditions don't exist. And this union is so odd, because any sort of fight we do in this union is not for us, it's for future generations.” ThinkingWayWellsHas BeensFightingInterestingGenerationsConditionsInvolvedTownsUnionsOddPhenomenonChicagoFuture Generation Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.” IfsThinkingChildrenWholeSchoolGenerationsHappenedTaughtCapableContrastNeurotic Author:Doris Lessing
“To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!” PeopleThinkingMayReasonNextSimpleGreaterGenerationsPossibilityGoodnessEthicsCurrentsWelfareNext GenerationCurrent GenerationGood Ethics Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” ThinkingMenPersonsMadeMatterEarthForeverRightsGenerationsMereCreatorInherentSuccessionUnchangeableUnalienable Rights Author:Thomas Jefferson