“People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.” PeopleWantLooksKindMayProtectHappeningsPleasantVisible Author:Herbie Hancock
“To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.” PeopleWorldYearsMeanDoeGovernmentActionForceWaitingDoorsPoliticianPromiseHappeningsAssumingNeighborCupsBrokeSugarHouseholdGreeceImpatientParaphraseFalse Promises Author:Sarah Palin
“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.” PeopleRealizingPleasureSecretFailingSpecialHappenings Author:Adolf Hitler
“I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational. It seems pretty rational to buy a house and flip it in the next few weeks at a profit when that's been happening for along time.” PeopleSeemsNextHouseWeekMiddleHappeningsCaughtProfitRationalNot SureBubblesIrrationalCaught UpFlip Author:Paul Samuelson
“We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantStatesCareQualityIssuesPlansConditionsHappeningsConnectedAccessSymbolsSubstanceCompareSmall BusinessAlaskaProvidersAffordability Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.” PeopleWritingMeanUseChristianTermRealizingBornFineColdBecomingHappeningsTraditionConversionClassicEtcJustificationEvangelicalBorn AgainRegenerationVerdictSynonym Author:N. T. Wright
“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!” PeopleWayTodaySocialVoiceOne ThingMediaIndustryRight NowHappeningsSocial MediaThanksDefinedDesignerJust One Author:Maria Borges
“Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.” PeopleKnowsFeelsKindLongHouseStuffInterestingSecretTalkingKnow HowCarClothesLong TimeHappeningsStartingAll KindsSignalsVery InterestingInteresting ThingsHow You FeelAmerican SocietyTalking About Money Author:Dan Ariely
“I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.” PeopleFeelsLittlesTwoTermNumbersBehindsStepsHappeningsFemaleCamerasDecadesJadedJessicaJessica Jones Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.” PeopleIfsGivingSometimesSpiritualLife IsCoursesSecretWonderStudyGroupsTeachingEffectsHappeningsBe GoodSelfishInner PeaceMotiveAttainmentSecret LifeOutgoingSpiritual TeachingSelfish Motives Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansHappenings Author:Kohta Hirano
“I like it all. I love getting inside of people's heads and playing what drives people and what makes them do what they do. That's always been what's most interesting to me about being an actor. The analyzing of what's happening, but even more so, just letting it all go and playing is fun. I love just seeing what comes out of you.” PeopleActorsFunInterestingSeeingHappeningsMost InterestingAnalyzing Author:Alicia Silverstone
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.” PeopleWritingStuffBitsHalfHappeningsHidingMagicianCunningRevealingUnfolding Author:Michael Rosen
“We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingFormPoliticalOpinionInfluencePersonalityPoliticianHappeningsEducatePolitical Will Author:Angelina Jolie
“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindArtIdeasRealSpaceHappenedStreetsMovementPaintingPureHappeningsTrainCuriousSpontaneousReflectingAcademyAngstCombustionFuturistSpontaneous Combustion Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would make the Minions more a part of the story than they were in the first movie. In this one, as you know, they're disappearing. What's happening to the Minions? We made them a much bigger part of the movie in those terms.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsMadeStoriesWantedTermBalanceHappeningsBiggerDisappearMinions Author:Cinco Paul
“WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.” PeopleTryingHelpingHappeningsHelping Each Other Author:Howard Hesseman
“You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy most of the profitability of the two franchises. That must get down to the peculiarities of individual adjustment to market capitalism. I think you 'd have to know the people involved to fully understand what was happening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoIndividualInvolvedHappeningsCapitalismLots Of MoneyAdjustmentCokeProfitabilityPepsi Author:Charlie Munger
“There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.” PeopleWorldDutyHappeningsSacredThings HappenHorribleAnnoyingEquanimitySabotageHorrible ThingsProspering Book:Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain Source: Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain
“I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don't find it beautiful I hope they're just glad that something like it is happening on TV.” PeopleIfsRealFactsBodyBeautifulTvsHappeningsFemaleGladRangeFemale Body Author:Lena Dunham
“Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a very hard working set. He has such an intense level of dedication to what's happening that he cultivates a group of people around him who have an equal level of dedication. Nobody asks, "When is lunch?" That's just not part of our sets. It's complete immersion. He has a 'no cell phone' rule. Nobody checks their cell phone. Nobody reads on set. It's like, "If you're there, you're there. If you're not on board with that, don't work on this movie."” PeopleIfsDoeHardRunningAsksLevelsGroupsHard WorkQuietDirectorsEqualHappeningsPhonesIntenseChecksCellsBoardsLunchDedicationCell PhoneImmersion Author:Greta Gerwig
“My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.” PeopleIfsWritingKindTwoCharacterActionMovingFallStuffRoomsEmotionTalkingSceneHappeningsMy FavoriteDrivenThings To DoChaoticFavorites ThingsPeople TalkingStuff I Like Author:Geoff Johns
“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.” PeopleThinkingLooksMadeWholeBigsFilmProcessTermSimpleImagineEasierCostHappeningsEnglandDollarsStudiosFinanceBudgetsMovie SetsWrong Words Author:Eric Fellner
“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.” PeopleGivingSchoolTogetherBreakStudentsAuthorityHappeningsUniversityLocalsCouncilRepressionGet TogetherReins Author:John Lennon
“I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeRunningPastCitiesLibertyStreetsHappeningsParksStatuesEcosystemsBatteriesHoratioStatue Of LibertyNowhere To GoCentral ParkFerry Author:Andy Cohen
“One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.” PeopleIfsWritingHumansBigsGoalHuman BeingsHappeningsToughPills Author:Taylor Swift
“Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the oppor-tunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.” PeopleBelieveStillsAbleThreeGivenFunHoursConversationHappeningsToolsMy Favorite Author:Joe Rogan
“The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.” PeopleNeedsStillsTogetherCultureCommunityRightsHappeningsAfrican AmericanTogether As One Author:Ziggy Marley
“We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.” PeopleNeedsRealityLevelsSituationOur LivesEmotionalStrangeCircumstancesDrawsHappeningsThings HappenSubconsciousMetaphysicalStrange ThingsVery DeepPeople In Our Lives Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Ever since [Donald]Trump has been opening his big mouth, you`re seeing all these bitter people, latent racists who are becoming emboldened. You`re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country.” PeopleHas BeensCountryBigsStuffSeeingTrumpBecomingHappeningsMouthsUglyOpeningBitterRacistLatentBitter People Author:Bernie Sanders
“It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.” PeopleKnowsWorldSpeakLanguageLinesNicePerceptionHappeningsCountyOften Is Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingSometimesMatterInspirationWalksCasesTerribleLateHappeningsTreatsNo Matter WhatLibraryVersionsTendenciesMondayFriday Author:Roberto Orci
“What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and the deposits they have in the bank, for every $100 of money that there was in 1929, by 1933 there was only $67. The Federal Reserve allowed the quantity of money to decline by a third. While, at all times, it had the possibilities and the power of preventing that from happening.” PeopleMeanHappenedPossibilityHappeningsThirdsAll TimePocketsCashQuantityDeclineReservesPreventingFederal ReserveDeposits Author:Milton Friedman
“What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsShowsPhotographyHappeningsCatPhotographBillionsCostumes Author:John Szarkowski
“I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.” PeopleFeelingsCareRememberYoungSawsHappenedHairLosingHappeningsMadDon't CareCaringComplainingI Don't CareComplaintsGet RealBotheredDead People Author:Louis C. K.
“If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLongMistakeWorryComedyLong TimeHappeningsStartingThings HappenIf I CouldRelax Author:Christian Finnegan
“I'm glad they're taking a step back. A lot of this is happening so quickly that people can't keep up with it.” PeopleStepsHappeningsGlad Author:Clementa C. Pinckney
“Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.” PeopleMadeCountryWantedCultureHouseNationsWhitePrinciplesMilitaryMoralityRight NowHappeningsFinancialDivisionWhite HouseStabilityRidiculeFinancial Stability Author:Benjamin Carson
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.” PeopleThinkingLevelsAudienceLateHappeningsTwentiesRememberedSeventiesConfinedLate Twenties Author:Mike Batt
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksRealFacesHappeningsVoteWake UpComplicatedRegionsReal WorldHumiliationMenaceMarginalization Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.” PeopleSeemsCareSocialResponsibilityHappeningsTake CareVulnerableDecentSensibleSocial Responsibility Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryPastYoungLinesKnow HowPositionHappeningsGunOur CountryTrustedCredibilityNra Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtCertainCreativityHappeningsCubaArt World Author:Rachael Price
“I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.” PeopleWayTryingSpiritBuildingHappeningsAppealsFlagsGearsElectronic Music Author:Squarepusher
“Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.” PeopleDifferentCountryMillionsMilitaryPerspectiveRepublicanSixHappeningsDemocratSevenOur CountryDifferent PerspectiveForeign CountriesLiving Abroad Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.” PeopleStuffTelevisionRight NowHappeningsCables Author:Kool Keith
“I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingChildrenHardSongGirlHappeningsAlbumsPopsSatisfiedTwelveUrbanElevenGood GirlBest Of Me Author:Chrisette Michele
“I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsCountryHappeningsGood ThingsFeel Good Author:Ronald Reagan