“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” PeopleWorldWayCountrySeemsKidsIndividualViewsGroupsHappeningsConcernedExcitedOur CountryBetter PlacePessimisticPlaces In The World Author:Steve Jobs
“I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.” ThinkingWayProblemWantedShareHappeningsConcernedMexicoReadership Author:Sarah Stillman
“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.” WayNeedsMovingEnergyTechnologyPathWindHugeWallHappeningsWindowCleanPaintMoving ForwardFasterNew WaysBikeClean Energy Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.” WayLittlesDifferentHomeMightJobsJourneyCrazyHappeningsAlbumsThings HappenLittle ThingsExploringCoincidenceJewelsAvenuesBack HomeSynchronicity Author:Bat for Lashes
“People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.” PeopleWayDoneSpaceCitiesMillionsSawsMiddleStupidHappeningsStationsSoberCologne Author:Alice Schwarzer
“There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.” WayWantPersonsMillionsAmountHappeningsDollarsOscarsAcademy Author:Don Cheadle
“I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.” ThinkingWorldWayPersonsUsedSufferingCultureDifferencesHappeningsInjusticeUsed To BeMaking A DifferenceDevotedExploitationExposingIlluminating Author:Brad Willis
“What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.” WayWholeBehaviorHappeningsPaidPoliceEducationalTreatedMinoritiesEducational SystemIncarceration Author:Oren Moverman
“I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind. I want to do what comes my way. No plans, no idea, I believe in things happening organically. Right now the plan is to wrap things up - we've got one more Abbie Hoffman Fest to put together - whatever happens after that is unknown. I'm not going to push anything beyond passive behavior.” WayWantMindBelieveLooksIdeasMightHappensTogetherI BelievePlansRight NowBehaviorHappeningsI Believe InThings HappenMy WayNo IdeaPassiveWrapsWhatever Happens Author:Richard Cotovsky
“Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.” ThinkingWayFeelingsHappensAcceptingAcceptanceHappeningsDeeperDimensionsTimeless Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.” KnowsMenWayStillsHappensGrewGrew UpHappeningsVictimRaisedNeighborhood Author:Ice Cube
“I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.” WayPersonsLinesInterestingHappeningsMaskHelpful Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“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
“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMeanSometimesBigsCertainFallUnderstandingChurchDealsCommonCitiesWonderEventsHappeningsConfusionFrustrationWorking ItRefugeBig DealAlways Working Author:Michael Emerson
“I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.” KnowsWayI CanReasonTurnsFeltHappeningsDown AndDivorceAfter DivorceHappening For A Reason Author:Gwen Stefani
“If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantFirstsSpiritualEasyProcessGoalHappeningsProfoundMatureColumbiaColombia Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of your brain processing what's happening during the day, but there's really no meaning to them; a lot of imagery of just flashes of what happened.” PeopleWayBelieveKindDreamBrainHappenedHappeningsFlashImageryProcessing Author:Shelby Harris
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.” WayDifferentSocialBrainConditionsRight NowHappeningsExcitingPressureIllnessThings HappenExciting ThingsSocial ConditionsNeurobiologySocial Pressure Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.” ThinkingWayRealProblemAmericaSpacePowerfulToo MuchHappeningsCrisisMasculinityFramed Author:Jessica Valenti
“People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market.” PeopleKnowsWayChoicesProductsHappeningsJapanAllowingEmphasisExpandingQuarrels Author:Sheena Iyengar
“When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.” WayKindDifferentEndsSoundMemoriesBecomingHappeningsDifferent WaysGetting OldSamplingOld Memories Author:DJ Spooky
“That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.” WayTryingKindHappeningsVisualsRealistic Author:Frank Luntz
“We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.” ThinkingWayLongSongThreeProcessRecordsProductsHappeningsAlbumsCaliforniaThemeQuartersRealised Author:Mark Hoppus
“I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingDifferentHelpingPerspectiveHappeningsGive MeHandleDifferent WaysTraveled Author:Trevor Noah
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.” WayFilmDesireCreativeDoorsNew YorkTelevisionTvsHappeningsIndependentSurpriseArtisticIndependent Film Author:Aja Naomi King
“Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.” WayEnoughPlayHappeningsFunctionNarrativePun Author:Garry Winogrand
“The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.” WayDangerTvsHappeningsEvolve Author:Alan Sepinwall
“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” WorldWayFactsHappeningsIndependentCorporationsStringsDisruptionCombiningOperatorsBuckminster FullerStrings AttachedNo Strings Attached Author:Jonathon Keats
“I sing My Way, I say this to the whole country, "Well, the President of Estonia sent me a message." He heard about it because of what's happening in Russia right now and the power grab that [Vladimir] Putin has.” WayWellsCountryWholePresidentHeardRight NowMessagesHappeningsRussiaMy WayPutinEstonia Author:Robert Davi
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanStoriesTermHappeningsConcernScientistClimateClimate ChangeSurfaceConstructsTemperature Author:Dale Jamieson
“Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.” WayImportantCultureModernBecomingHappeningsOptimismModern DayCandide Author:Mark Ravenhill
“My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsLittlesHappeningsCatSubtleNeighborhoodJargonSlang Author:Nina Simone
“What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.” WayHas BeensTermMediaTrumpRepublicanHappeningsCastsTreatedPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.” WayHappensFormHateBoysShapesHappeningsI HateThings HappenMantras Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.” WayFormUniverseEnergyUnderstandingCommunityRolesPlanetsHappeningsRevelationsCommunionPreciseAccordAcceleration Author:Christine McCormick Day
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.” WayTryingFiguresHappeningsProducersNew Ways Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig deeper into what I've been doing all of this time, to find new ways and also to get over the thought that it's not happening.” WayUnderstandingInterestLevelsListeningHappeningsDeeperNew WaysImpressedGet OverDig Deep Author:Pauline Oliveros
“What happened to the men's boxing is happening to the women's boxing, but not all the time. Every now and then, you get some really great fights. It's a money thing and how many people are going to buy that pay-per-view for the fights. The UFC is eventually going to go that way.” PeopleMenWayFightingViewsPayHappenedHappeningsBoxingNow And ThenReally GreatUfc Author:Bonnie Canino
“When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.” IfsWayMindHeartMeanHelpingBodyMightCertainBeliefSpaceAttentionWatchesAwarenessHealthyHappeningsWake UpPay AttentionHelp MePushingAttachmentHolding OnRespect MePushing Away Author:Tara Brach
“In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.” WayMindSufferingKindnessSeeingAcceptanceJudgingHappeningsRadicalAntidote Author:Tara Brach
“What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.” PeopleWayWantTryingIdeasEndsFormHappeningsNot Interested Author:George W. Bush
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.” PeopleWayWantBigsEyeSocialCausesTechnologyCommunicationHappeningsBuiltHarmReactionsThreatenedScenariosSurgeonsArteries Author:Howard Rheingold
“I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.” KnowsWayBelieveSaidHardSchoolStudentsArmsBearsHappeningsJournalismDo You KnowAmendmentsFourthRight To Bear ArmsColumbiaHard To BelieveLecturingFourth Amendment Author:Nat Hentoff
“I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.” PeopleWayArtMovingCareersHappenedHappeningsLuckPrivileged Author:Kiki Smith
“Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.” WayWantStoriesCompanyChangedSceneHappeningsExtraordinaryPartnersChanged My LifeMost Amazing Author:Danny Glover
“You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.” WorldWayWholeMotherAwarenessHappeningsBeing YourselfFulfilledBeing A Woman Author:Alicia Keys