“Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.” PeopleIfsWantHeartCountryReasonAmericaEconomicExampleHappeningsTablesOur FamilyMexicoSaltCents Author:George W. Bush
“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.” KnowsSaidSometimesKnow HowTakenExampleInternetHappeningsOkayYeahStrategySurpriseDeeperListsPrioritiesFasterPhenomenonSpellsFifth Author:Bill Gates
“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesWarBigsRealityYoungGirlSexBitsFansExampleBattleHappeningsCarefulEightTeenageLiving My LifeHaving SexTeenage GirlTug Of War Author:Rihanna
“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
“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
“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.” YearsImportantMatterWantedSituationAcceptingExamplePositionInvolvedHappeningsEssenceTechniqueDrunkShootingObserversAestheticsBeing Drunk Author:Antoine D'Agata
“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.” IfsKnowsWayWantBelieveCharacterSeemsAudienceExampleListeningSceneConflictSpeechHappeningsDefenseTricksJustifiedAnother Way Author:Ernest Lehman
“It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.” WorldDifferentRealShowsTurnsSituationAirEffectsExampleHappeningsWarmSurfaceProofObservationFasterAtmosphereGlobal WarmingRegionsHypothesisMeasurementTrickyTheoristsCo2 Author:Nigel Calder
“There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.” LooksCountryProblemCommunityWealthRaceExampleSeriousHappeningsAfrican AmericanZeroAlmost Zero Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we're supposed to live, we find more and more often that we're not paying attention to what's actually happening.” ThinkingGivingLooksCountryFactsNationsAttentionExampleShapesHappeningsPay Attention Author:Immortal Technique
“What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.” MindBodyHappensEarthConsciousnessExampleHappeningsMind And Body Author:Eyvind Kang
“The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.” WayFocusExampleHappeningsBest WayAfghanistan Author:Tim Hetherington
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.” PeopleThinkingArtWarBodyTogetherCulturePiecesStreetsRocksExampleMovementTaughtIntellectualHappeningsMovedActivismAnti WarRock And RollConstructsEnergeticEmbodimentSeize The DayAnti War Movement Author:Eve Ensler
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.” GivingStatesHappensAmericaSoundUnitedUnited StatesIssuesExampleBirthHappeningsConsciousImpactPrisonReformCaliforniaProgressiveLike SomethingSigningGiving BirthPaperworkPrison Reform Author:Patricia Arquette
“In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.” PeopleWellsKindMovingCultureLanguageExampleHappeningsEuropeUnionsFolksReactionsBritainRegionsSpokesDiverseSpainEuropean UnionRepressedFolk MusicFrancoBasquesDiverse Society Author:Noam Chomsky
“Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.” UseUnderstandingExampleHappeningsConsequenceInstrumentsSurpriseUnusualAnticipationGreat Writers Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.” PeopleThinkingWayInterestingExampleHappeningsPopsGenreNew WaysSoupWarhol Author:Pete Townshend
“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.” FirstsCoursesGrowsDarkExampleDespairHappeningsWeightTouchedNow And ThenArbitraryConcealedGrasping Author:Martin Heidegger