“I had no problems staying motivated because things that were happening were things I looked forward to.” ProblemHappeningsStayingMotivatedNo ProblemStay Motivated Author:Mario Andretti
“My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.” WorldNeedsYearsHappensPoliticalOrderStudyEconomicAdviceFashionHappeningsDaughterDesignerHistoricGood Design Author:Tim Gunn
“I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.” WayStageHappeningsMy WayCopingEscaping Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what's happening on the mental level and what's happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what's happening on a physical level.” LevelsEmotionalHappeningsToolsBreaths Author:Paul Harvey
“Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is the cartoon is a commercial for the toy and the toy is a commercial for the cartoon. The same thing's happening now in comic strips; it's just another way to get the competitive edge. You saturate all the different markets and allow each other to advertise the other, and it's the best of all possible worlds. You can see the financial incentive to work that way. I just think it's to the detriment of integrity in comic strip art.” ThinkingWorldWayArtDifferentResultsMorningIntegrityDrawsHappeningsFinancialEdgesComicToysSaturdayCartoonIncentivesAnother WayComic StripsSaturday Morning Author:Bill Watterson
“Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.” CharacterHappensBeautifulChoicesUnderstandingHigherHappeningsSurfaceCoreWho We AreWhatever Happens Author:Richard Bach
“I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.” HappensHappeningsThings HappenMake Things Happen Author:Dolly Parton
“Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming.” TryingLosesHappeningsSight Author:Catherine Corsini
“Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.” SocialHappeningsStandingBases Author:Kabir Sehgal
“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.” MindSpiritualPurposeBeliefChurchReligiousDependsMembersSurvivalHappeningsInstitutionsStructureAwakeningSeparationScalesUnconsciousExclusiveSpiritual AwakeningBelief SystemsCongregationLarge Scale Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However, this latter development is less apparent when you listen to the media. The media still mostly reflects what is happening in the sphere of the old consciousness.” StillsConsciousnessMediaDevelopmentHappeningsMadnessGet BetterLatterSpheresAcceleration Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.” StillsFactsCultureRealizingSubjectsHappeningsWesternDimensionsDeniedTabooWestern Culture Author:Eckhart Tolle
“A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.” PeopleWorldFilmUsedNamesTakenRocksEventsHappeningsThings HappenCinemaCarrieWayne Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.” ThinkingMindImportantSometimesHelpingLastsActorsMinutesSceneHappeningsPerformancesCamerasImportant ThingsThings HappenSupposed To BeGood ActorsLast Minute Author:Audrey Tautou
“I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.” WayBelieveBeliefI BelieveHappeningsFlowThings Happen Author:Naoko Mori
“What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.” ArtSeemsFashionHappeningsTradeThings HappenExtensions Author:Art Spiegelman
“Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldStillsSchoolUnderstandingDependsDemandHappeningsShould HaveMindsetMathWhat You WantLegislationSegregation Author:Deborah Meier
“I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.” IdeasKingsPeriodsConflictHappeningsResearchRebellionTerritoryWalesBeing Authentic Author:Kurt Sutter
“I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.” LooksReadingMorningHappeningsFinishedNewspapersAfternoonTurkeysDemoralizing Author:Orhan Pamuk
“People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSeemsHappensHurtHappenedHappeningsConcernedBiggerPatternsThings HappenWorriedIt HurtsHappening Again Author:Mary Gaitskill
“There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me "oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys". Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?” IfsThinkingFirstsSaidTwoHumorHappensFunnyGuyWorryHappeningsFaultsGirlfriendTwo ThingsOne TimeOther GuysSexuallyMy Girlfriend Author:Jimmy Carr
“You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures.” PeopleWayStoriesUsedCultureSeeingHappeningsBasic Things Author:Marjane Satrapi
“What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.” PeopleWorldWayShouldReasonRunningRevolutionHappeningsCorporationsGiantsTornTorn Apart Author:Michael Shannon
“As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!” BelieveRealWholeFunMastersHappeningsReal LifeBelieve In MePuppetsPuppet Master Author:Christopher Paul Curtis
“What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.” IfsWorldWayTryingYearsLooksImportantHelpingSoundRoomsEnvironmentAchieveCarMastersHappeningsPerformancesEarsStudiosObjectivesIceDriversEngineersEquipmentLapWhat's ImportantYears Of Experience Author:Chris McCormack
“A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a movie. You are transported for three hours to a world where you see real people. In a novel it is private - there's only you, and words on pages. The landscape is in your mind and in your feelings.” PeopleWorldMindRealFeelingsThreeHoursNovelPagesHappeningsLandscapeEvoke Author:Jay Neugeboren
“I'm really showing the people what's happening. I'm showing them love. You're spending on guns and drugs and bombs and stuff like those and you're still not reaching out to the people who are suffering. You found money to make bombs and destructive weapons, but you ain't finding no money to help people suffering.” PeopleStillsHelpingSufferingFoundStuffLove YouDrugFindingsWeaponsHappeningsGunSpendingBombsReachingDestructiveReach OutNo Money Author:Sizzla
“Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells of some ocean animals. Ouch, how'd you like to have your shell dissolve?” WaterAnimalOceanHappeningsSurfaceBad ThingsShellsAcidCo2OuchOcean Water Author:Mark Powell
“If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.” PeopleIfsLooksDoneMovingCertainExampleHappeningsWaveArtisticEndeavour Author:John Kinsella
“The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.” ThinkingWorldDoeHas BeensStatesProblemDifficultUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsCrazyMiddleHappeningsIntentionVery GoodEastMiddle EastDiplomacyNaiveIowaNebraskaGood Records Author:Moshe Arens
“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.” ImportantNaturalBearsHappeningsClimateClimate ChangeEnormousWitnessAdaptation Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.” PeopleEnvironmentPositionHappeningsTransformationOneselfStuckNever Change Author:Yasuhiko Kimura
“There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique is one of the best ways to have your art grow, but if you start tearing yourself down then, it's not going to go anywhere. I feel the same about critics. I feel that's happening all too often.” IfsWayFeelsArtSelfFactsGrowsSupportTeachingHappeningsCriticsCriticalBest WayCritique Author:Jennifer Tipton
“I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.” WorldWantYearsHappeningsHonestly Author:Ashkan Kooshanejad
“What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.” KnowsWantMaySidesHappeningsDetroit Author:Kwame Kilpatrick
“There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.” IfsLooksGuyCan DoSceneHappeningsDinnerOvensFamily DinnerCasserolesWrong GuySpatulas Author:Rob Lowe
“I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.” ThinkingFeelsPoorPowerfulIssuesHappeningsFolksCoreFeel GoodEngagedThis SocietyI Feel Good Author:Barack Obama
“I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.” ThinkingHomeAgeFatherComputerHappeningsProgressionPersonal Computers Author:Barry Ptolemy
“You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.” TryingMindCharacterHappeningsCamerasTricksBlock Author:Bailee Madison
“Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.” MadeStoriesChangedHappeningsEducateOpera Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMindStillsDifferentClearFocusMusicianSingingHappeningsWanderDrumming Author:Brett Dennen
“Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.” StoriesAsksPiecesAdviceFrontsInvolvedHappeningsCuriousGet InvolvedRecognise Author:Jill Douglas
“I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.” WayNeedsLooksDifferentMomentsUseFormSongRealizingMemoriesWrittenPerspectiveHappeningsObstaclesGrassTherapySongwritingDifferent PerspectiveGreenerDocumentation Author:Chuck Ragan
“In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.” ThinkingHas BeensWholeShowsCoursesTermInterestingWonderfulHappeningsInstrumentsSeriesSpeedMusclesShow MeReally InterestingCdsDjsPadsTurntables Author:Brian Eno
“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.” KnowsWantMeanLongMomentsForceStuffSidesHappeningsReceptive Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.” PeopleBeliefInterestHappeningsAreasAspectRegionsIdeological Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.” LongRealityFrontsPlanetsPeriodsHappeningsNotionRelyEcologyOur PlanetMedievalGermsLong Periods Of TimeMedieval Times Author:John Hodgman
“I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.” MeanPlayerKeysExerciseHappeningsExpectationsMeetingsMedicalCoachesDepartmentStaffSeniorAnalystsPersonnelInterfaces Author:Brendan Rodgers
“I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.” ChildrenI CanWould BeWishCasesWorryHappeningsCalmHandleGet BetterAnxious Author:Anna Friel