“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.” ThinkingTryingHardForceTechnologyFiguresWindOur SocietyGale Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.” HardWindMountainWestSouthEasternSlopes Author:Tim Cahill
“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.” WellsArtHardArtistOrderSoundSpaceWindAskingBeastSensibilityLitMaximumRumorGalleryTraction Author:Jerry Saltz
“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” PeopleIfsThinkingHardEnoughHappensGrowthChangeWorkBeautyWindHard WorkBoundsWeatherStarting Anew Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.” HardEasyFriendshipWindMiseryTheeFaithfulNo FriendsFaithful Friends Author:Richard Barnfield
“When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .” MenHardWindRainEastReverenceForgivenIndulgence Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.” PeopleIfsYearsKindDifferentHardMomentsProcessChanceChangedWindBlowScaryBreatheBoatLakesDifferent KindsCanoeing Author:Seth Godin
“I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.” PeopleIfsHardBigsEasyTalentWindCombinationDiminishNeurosisWorking Too Hard Author:Mel Brooks