“I was maybe the earliest person who was constructive toward Trump who served at a high level in the Bush administration. I took a lot of guff from my former Bush colleagues who didn't see what was happening in the country. I'm not smarter than they are or a better person than they are. I just traveled a lot around the country.” PersonsCountryLevelsTrumpHappeningsFormerAdministrationSmarterTraveledColleaguesConstructiveBetter PersonHigh Level Author:Matt Schlapp
“The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.” IfsWorldMeanDifferentAgeAmericaPastPoliticalChallengesMajorsHappeningsAwakeningSatisfiedIntenseRelateAspirationRestlessLivelyStirringRecent Past Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.” PeopleKnowsPersonsCountryCareAbleNextLeaderMankindInvolvedHappeningsAverageGuidesVillageAverage PersonThe Next One Author:Brent Scowcroft
“The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.” ChristianAmericaHappeningsSpiteExecutionPenaltiesBeltsDeath Penalty Author:Shane Claiborne
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.” YearsKidsSchoolMotherFatherParentBornMarriedHappeningsHigh SchoolSplits Author:Mahershala Ali
“I don't see anything happening [in heavyweight division] when I watch these fights, they are very boring. Not only that, but you never heard of any of the fighters.” FightingWatchesHeardHappeningsBoringFighterDivisionHeavyweights Author:Larry Holmes
“Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening.” FightingOpportunityBeatsHappeningsRingsLarryHolmes Author:Larry Holmes
“When I'm in a state of goodness about the world, no matter what is happening, I see that goodness. But if I'm in an irritable, angry, separate state, I've shut down.” IfsWorldMatterStatesGoodnessHappeningsNo Matter WhatAngry Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening. And feel disconnected in that way that feels irresponsible. But the other side of it is that there are people here who believe the right things that are trying to make a difference with art.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingBelieveArtSidesPresidentDifferencesTrumpHappeningsRight ThingMaking A DifferenceMarchIrresponsibleDisconnectedSundance Author:Elijah Wood
“If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayPastViolenceHappeningsThings HappenAwfulSyriaStunnedSudan Author:Bill Gates
“I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that what's happening is great and that people are active and people are just involved in the democratic process.” PeopleThinkingProcessPossibilityMonthsTrumpInvolvedHappeningsDemocraticActiveDemocratic Process Author:Mark Shields
“I don't think [Donald] Trump was playing rope-a-dope. He probably said, "Look, I've done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries? I know what's happening."” ThinkingKnowsLooksSaidDoneTrumpHappeningsDebatePrimariesRopeDope Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections and implementing their beliefs. It's not fate. It's not by accident. It's not coincidence. It's not the result of cosmic forces working against us. It is because specifically of policies, legislation, ideas, whatever you want to call it, implemented, put into action by this administration.” WantIdeasActionBeliefForceResultsFatePolicyHappeningsElectionDemocratSeekingAccidentsAdministrationCosmicCoincidenceLegislationImplementingReelection Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.” LongMomentsGamesTermTechnologyStudyPlansTalentModelsHappeningsBuiltConstantIceDataLong TermHockeyEfficientPredictionsWayneGame PlanGretzky Author:Kevin Maney
“When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.” WorldWarTodayRememberCoursesViolenceStupidHappeningsCompareWar Of The WorldsArrogantHumankindWorld War IWorld TodaySecond World WarGrotesqueDominating Author:Elie Wiesel
“In today's global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it's "innovate or die"!” TodayDiesEconomyProductsHappeningsInnovationImprovementGlobal Economy Author:Bill Capodagli
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.” PeopleThinkingLooksGovernmentWould BeInfluenceInformationNewsHappeningsCurrentsAvailableDisasterCommitCorporateDiscussionMainstreamReally GreatAtrocitiesSubsidiesMonsanto Author:Ellen Page
“I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.” ThinkingWayUsedLiteratureFictionFantasyHappeningsScience FictionGhostUsed To BeBloodyRealistTroll Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.” PeopleThinkingWayLongWholeSpaceHappeningsWhole LifeLong WayColony Author:John Glenn
“There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.” BelieveHumansI BelieveBrainTearsLaughterHappeningsThings HappenUnconscious Author:Nelly Furtado
“When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.” IfsKnowsWorldChildrenMadeHappensDifferencesTelevisionGoes OnTomorrowConflictHappeningsThings Happen Author:Nadine Gordimer
“You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.” MenTwoRealityFallEconomicHappeningsThings HappenTraditionalTwo ThingsMasculinityFalling Apart Author:Stephen Marche
“Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.” ArtistHappeningsScientistCome UpRespondingMilieu Author:Adam Frank
“In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.” IndustryHappeningsRateTechnologicalRapidsTechnological Change Author:Ken Moelis
“I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.” WorldWayTryingDifferentBigsIndustryRight NowConversationHappeningsDifferent WaysGet Ahead Author:Ken Moelis
“Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.” IndustryHappeningsOilDrilling Author:Ken Moelis
“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?” KnowsMenWorldMadeWarPhilosophyTodayPastGrowthColdHappeningsWar Of The WorldsBombsLive ByMechanismRegulationCold WarAtomic BombFamilies Today Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.” IdeasSelfBecomingFindingsHappeningsConceptsHumanismConnectedCriticalColonialism Author:Nigel Gibson
“Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.” WantNeedsShouldRunningTodayDifferencesViewsLeaderHappeningsDevilShould HaveExpectedContraryNakedAssociatesDissentEmperorVarianceSensorsDevil's Advocate Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.” StatesCareRepublicanTaxesHappeningsGunCrisisMajorityPressesStartingHearingImmigrationResistanceReformHealth CareOppositionGovernorsObamacareCoverageTax Reform Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am 32-years-old, and diversity is working for me. I see a lot of change. You can't deny the revolution that is happening about body sizes. With social media and everything, everyone can get their voice out more. It puts a lot of pressure on the industry to do, give more spaces to different ethnicities or ages or sizes. I do feel like the change is happening. It might have just started, but I believe it's not going to end. It's just the beginning.” GivingFeelsYearsBelieveDifferentEndsBodyMightAgeI BelieveSocialVoiceSpaceMediaRevolutionIndustryDiversityHappeningsPressureSizeSocial MediaDenyEthnicity Author:Bianca Balti
“I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv classes so that they just appreciate what's happening.” PeopleEnergyClassHappeningsAppreciate Author:Kurt Braunohler
“I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job is to make things funny. My style makes things sound like they're improvisational and happening right then and there.” WayJobsActorsSoundDifferencesComedyStyleApproachHappenings Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to find evidence of the melting glaciers and global warming, and they got stuck in the ice and it took three ice breakers and a helicopter to rescue them. Yet they still carry the day in the pop culture that global warming is happening.” LongStillsCultureThreeHappeningsEvidenceSouthPopsStuckBunchBoatIceGlobal WarmingRescueLong AgoPop CultureMeltingResearchersHelicoptersGlaciersIce Breaker Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through having an outward-looking attitude to what's happening to women in other countries, and by being affected by a broader debate.” CountryCan DoAttitudeHappeningsDebateAffectedLinksOther CountriesIrish Women Author:Mary Robinson
“A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsHumansWarProblemAgeLastsSpaceHuman NatureChangedColdPeriodsDemandHappeningsStressAdmireWar Of The WorldsCivil WarProblem SolvingCold WarBiographiesTime And SpaceGoverningPublic LifeGreat DepressionTime To Think Author:Hillary Clinton
“When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.” WorldNeedsVoiceRaceTalkingComedyHonestHappeningsRelationScalesAcknowledgeRace RelationsComedic Author:Trevor Noah
“The thing about kids is that they don't have the broader perspective of what's happening on a national level. Anything that's going wrong in their world, they somehow assume is unique to them and they're somehow to blame. It turns into an issue of shame.” WorldKidsTurnsLevelsIssuesPerspectiveUniqueHappeningsShameBlameAssuming Author:Lori Silverbush
“There's probably never been a more important time for mayors in America than there is right now in this country, because the people who are being targeted, and the fear that's happening out there, those people live in our cities.” PeopleImportantCountryAmericaCitiesRight NowHappeningsMayors Author:Marty Walsh
“People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions, we still see the experiences through the American perspective. We are just completely ignorant of what might be happening to other people.” PeopleMayStillsMightSufferingMediaPerspectiveHappeningsFilledIraqIgnorantVersionsAfghanistan Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films - film may not be the appropriate word in years to come. I'm excited about the possibility of new types of storytelling; that to me is less daunting. I'm excited by how we'll evolve with those formats thematically, tonally and in narrative.” ThinkingWayYearsMayWholeFilmGenerationsPossibilityTypeHappeningsExcitedStorytellingEvolveNarrativeAppropriateViewersAnticipateFormat Author:Simon Kinberg
“As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.” PeopleKnowsHappensLyingLuckyLowsHappeningsIndiaIslandsCoastSwept Away Author:Margaret Atwood
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasCountryStatesUseWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesDemocracyModelsHappeningsCapitalismEconomicsIndiaPopulationNeoliberalismCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Arundhati Roy
“Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.” TryingYearsStillsTwoIdeasPoliticalIndividualPartyPolicyHappeningsCriticismConservativeFollowingGreat ThingsAnalysisThirtyLabourIdenticalOrganisationThirty YearsProgrammesLabour PartyConservative PartyBipartisanship Author:Irvine Welsh
“I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.” SeemsHappeningsBreathe Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.” PeopleWayDoeJoyWaitingRoomsGriefTeachMiddleHappeningsChaosMy WayGet BetterFishingWaiting Rooms Author:Rick Warren
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.” PeopleEndsFeelingsAgeRaceProgressMediaParticularBattleHappeningsInstitutionsCurrentsGenderSexualityDiscriminationDisabilityCollapseFrighteningUrgencyGender EqualitySense Of UrgencyStalling Author:Catherine Mayer