“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaPoliticianRepublicanHappeningsOrdinaryDemocratActivePrimariesFasterBehaveMinoritiesRealisingLockedGlobesErosionAmerican PowerStagsAntlers Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as : What's the problem? What's the solution? Time Energy Money What do I get? What do I give? Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.” GivingProblemCertainEnergyGrowsTroublePrayingSolutionsHappeningsCalmScaryActiveShrinksMantrasCalm DownScary Things Author:Kelly Cutrone
“I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.” WorldYearsKindTwoWantedHappeningsDecidedWork OutActivePartnersFirmTwo YearsRetired Author:I. M. Pei
“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsYearsKindStatesSeemsVoiceAnswersGrowingEffectsMovementHappeningsToughStartingActiveBest WayCollectivesEmergingDisillusionedCampaigningDazed Author:Scarlett Johansson
“What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.” RealStoriesHonestDutyMomHappeningsActiveCompelling Author:Michelle Monaghan
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.” WorldYoungSoundThis WorldConversationHappeningsHollywoodActiveActressesHolesSurroundObserversMilitant Author:Mackenzie Davis
“There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.” WorldPayAttentionHappeningsHip HopActiveNoiseHipsHopsSubconsciousFlavor Author:Baratunde Thurston
“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".” FeelsTryingMomentsUseFeelingsFoundSocialMediaPerceptionHappeningsClaimsSocial MediaActiveVersions Author:George Saunders
“The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.” HandsIndividualAcceptingAuthorityHappeningsTraditionMajorityActiveLifestyleVersionsHomosexualLawfulness Author:Hamza Yusuf
“In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.” WorldTermLosesLinesHappeningsInternationalActiveEvolveTiesVietnamInherentSuspicionProsperousMarketplaceOutside WorldThailandMalaysia Author:William J. Duiker
“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