“I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.” HumanityOpinionInternetHigherChecksEmail Author:Ann Patchett
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.” IfsThinkingWellsCountryFactsHavensHigherSafeLowsPicksGainsDollarsSpreadPlusYieldInvestorsCurrencyVersusTranslationsSafe HavenDeveloped CountryRallying Author:Gary Shilling
“If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.” IfsOpportunityBornPracticeHigherRealmsPleasantIncentives Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.” Has BeensMadeEnoughPresidentHigherSmartTestsPresidentialSatCandidatesScoreAlsVotersArrogantExesGoreAptitudePresidential CandidateUs PresidentScholasticsSat ScoresAptitude Test Author:Jim Goad
“Mitt Romney got 59 percent of the white vote in 2012, considered by many to be a high-water mark with this demographic group. Can [Donald] Trump win a higher share of white voters than Romney and get more of them to turn out?” TurnsWinningWaterWhiteGroupsShareTrumpHigherPercentVoteMarkVotersRomneyDemographics Author:Mara Liasson
“If they can get 15 or higher, it will be a very bad night for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan twisted himself into a pretzel by endorsing but not always supporting Donald Trump. Now, he's facing the prospect of a slimmer majority, with fewer moderates. Conservative members in the Freedom Caucus have already sent warning shots threatening Ryan's tenure as speaker.” IfsNightHouseTrumpHigherMembersShotsMajorityConservativeWarningFewerSpeakersThreateningModeratesTwistedTenureCaucusEndorsingPretzelsBad Night Author:Mara Liasson
“Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside people look at you and think of what you could be doing better. Those are voluntary, but most of the companies told me they're going to do it. And I think it's good for them to say our returns on equity, for example, should be higher. Also, I think some could be more ambitious.” PeopleThinkingShouldLooksTwoCompanyExampleReturnHigherDirectorsIndependentFocusedAmbitiousEquity Author:Jamie Dimon
“I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.” MindWellsCountryDoneHigherTaxesBlessed Author:Jamie Dimon
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.” ThinkingShouldLittlesCountryHigherPercentBarack Author:Warren Buffett
“Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."” PeopleWritingChildrenMovingOpportunityBlackPresidentPovertyHigherBarackBlack PeoplePresident Barack ObamaYes We CanEpilogues Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.” BelieveSpiritualHigherHigher PowerSpiritual Peace Author:Julianne Malveaux
“We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.” ThinkingHigherRaisedBars Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is crucial, so when you see pictures coming through on your social media, it does push you to be a little more creative and raise the bar a little bit higher.” FirstsLittlesDoeMightEyeSocialBitsCreativeFiveMinutesMediaHigherApproachLittle BitRaisesSocial MediaBarsNakedCrucialFive MinutesLiftingRaising The BarNaked Eyes Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.” StillsIdeasThreeStarsHigherCrafts Author:Chelsea Handler
“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?” KnowsProblemJobsEnergyEconomicMiddleSourceDevelopmentIndustryHigherCreatingSolutionsIndependenceCleanOilEastPrioritiesDirtyAgendasWhy NotVotersMiddle EastCarbonEmissionsEconomic DevelopmentClean EnergyEnergy SourcesCarbon EmissionsCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness.” KnowsMeanHigherDegreesLard Author:Alton Brown
“Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.” IfsThinkingUseGovernmentWould BeGuyIndustryHigherSafeConservativeAnalysisVehicleOddsCarbonRogues Author:Bill McKibben
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.” CountryHigherLowsYieldDeveloped Country Author:Gary Shilling
“It's simply cheaper to operate the business offshore than it is domestically because of the tax rate, 35%, which is higher than anywhere else in the industrialized world. And one of the things the Trump team says they're gonna do is lower that to 15%. And if they do, folks, you haven't seen anything yet. If they succeed in that - and you watch.” IfsWorldWatchesTeamHavensTrumpHigherSucceedTaxesRateFolksCheaperOffshore Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.” GovernmentCultureNextUnderstandingLevelsHigherSafeJudgmentRaisedSelectedHigher LevelGood JudgmentCentral Government Author:Ai Weiwei
“Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.” RealityStuffTvsHigherFollowersVillainOutrageousRatingReality Tv Author:Van Jones
“In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.” AmericaVisionModernCollegeProductsHigherInstitutionsAppreciationBarackLeagueFoundersFoundingIvyHigher EducationColumbiaIvy LeagueArticulatingModern Education Author:Paul Kengor
“Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.” WayStatesReligiousFeetParticularHigherFoundationUniversityAwfulProfessorsInstructionFoundersSecularTimelessDivorcedHigher Education Author:Paul Kengor
“An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.” PeopleHelpingFilmGamesWinningWatchesPlayerHigherStrongerCoachesAgentsFasterDrafting Author:Lou Holtz
“I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.” IfsKnowsMadeCuttingHigherFascinatingSuggestions Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesFallReligiousAnswersHigherCallingConcernWorkersMarketplacePsychologistPredicamentsHigher Calling Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.” PeopleThinkingSeemsNamesStuffInterestMediaTrumpHigherConflictConcernSellsConflict Of Interest Author:Rand Paul
“After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.” ThinkingYearsSpiritualChurchLevelsConsciousnessHigherFairsPriestsHigher Level Author:Richard Rohr
“I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.” ThinkingKindSpiritualEnergyGrowthPrayerConsciousnessPracticeMeditationHigherSpiritual GrowthAffirmationMaintenanceDaily Spiritual Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“The HiiiPower Movement is a movement that's going on all throughout the world like a virus. It's about being on a higher level than the industry. It's a movement we started to be above all the bullshit that's been going on.” WorldLevelsMovementIndustryHigherBullshitVirusesHigher Level Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?” LevelsEconomicHigherBasesRelationJapanRegimesSanctionsHigher LevelFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.” SoundHigherFasterPhasesFrequencyAmbiguitySample Author:Owsley Stanley
“There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?” PeopleLevelsCompanyGroupsPositionIndustryHigherBuiltOkayOvercomingMinoritiesExecutivesDisadvantagesHigher LevelPosition Of PowerMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implications for Plotinus' ethics, because his ethics are basically all about encouraging us to turn away from the body and turn towards these higher principles, so universal soul, universal intellect and ultimately the One.” ImportantSoulBodyTurnsPrinciplesHigherEthicsUniversalIntellectYour SoulImplications Author:Peter Adamson
“The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.” HigherHierarchy Author:Michael Marmot
“The main problem with the Democrats is their utter negativity. They're made up of schumucks and hypocrites. They also have higher levels of immorality.” MadeProblemLevelsHigherDemocratNegativityHypocriteHigher LevelImmorality Author:Jackie Mason
“One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.” SoulSpiritWaterSweetHigherTragedyRisingMelancholyDrowning Author:Robert Bly
“People with education get out of the classroom as soon as they can and jump into administration or higher ed, there just needs to be some motivating factor for teachers to stay in the classrooms and excel. It's that simple.” PeopleNeedsSimpleTeacherHigherFactorsAdministrationClassroom Author:Raheem Jarbo
“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.” LooksHas BeensMadeCountryHomeBehindsGreaterFeetLandHigherDrinkEternalIndiaAncientSoilMarchOther CountriesSageFountainBrighter Author:Swami Vivekananda
“I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can go back to the staircase shots in "Third Man" or the staircase in "La Dolce Vita." So I just find that visual construction in a frame.” MenWayLooksKindHigherShotsThirdsVisualsConstructionAngleStaircasesDolce Vita Author:Martin Scorsese
“[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.” KnowsBelieveKindHigher Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.” ThinkingBelieveKindStillsTwoKidsNamesSpeakForceHigherAtheistThese DaysNot SurePondering Author:Nat Hentoff
“I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.” WantReasonFormValuesHigherPreservesHigher EducationJeopardy Author:Howard Gardner
“The other thing that's really important in tax reform is making sure that we don't tax American businesses at much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors tax theirs. It is costing us jobs. It's one of the reasons all these American companies are moving overseas.” ImportantReasonJobsMovingCompanyHigherTaxesRateReformCompetitorsTax ReformAmerican Business Author:Paul Ryan
“What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.” RolesGroupsExamplePositionHigherAuthorityConcernedCourtKillingVariousCriticalUnitsAccusedMarineCommandersBattlefieldsAtrocitiesProceedingMassacresRanking Author:James Mattis
“We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.” PeopleIfsWorldLongWarEconomyHavensMovementHigherMassLong TimeComplainingWar Of The WorldsJapanWorld War ISyriaInflationNorth Africa Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.” KindHelpingBodySituationEconomicChildhoodWorstDesignHigherBenefitsProgramUniversalImpactMajorityFolksDefinitionsEmploymentAfrican AmericanMinimumWagesMinimum WageEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.” WayBelieveKindLongStillsI BelieveBlackJusticeWhiteBoysPrinciplesRightsHigherBehaviorEvidenceStandingRateAbsenceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanDepartmentOur SocietyDivisionEnforcementDisadvantagesSuspendedBlack Boy Author:Barack Obama
“I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.” CountryRememberGivenBlackWalksDealsPolicyHigherTaxesDegreesFolksDataChicagoCombatComing OutConstructsRemember WhenCollecting Author:Barack Obama