“I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.” TryingHumansStrongHuman BeingsAbilityBelieverDissatisfiedChange For The BetterTrying To Change Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.” IfsNeedsFeelsWritingTryingHumansHuman BeingsIgnoranceBalanceDiscoveryPerpetualInner Life Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.” IfsWayShouldTryingHumansLooksUseUsedNaturalHuman BeingsEnvironmentMaterialsWasteBuiltOrganismsEcologicalNatural EnvironmentRecycledBuilt Environment Author:Ken Yeang
“We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.” IfsThinkingWorldWayWantTryingHumansStillsRunningHuman BeingsResponsibilityChosenCapture Author:Adam Haslett
“I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldTryingHumansLooksAbleFunHuman BeingsApproachCreatingInstinctDrivenHaving FunExcitementPlunge Author:Jack Nicholson
“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsHumansImportantReasonMightHappensThreeHuman BeingsBehindsWorryAliveWeekYears AgoProcrastinationStaying AliveSavanna Author:James Surowiecki
“But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk a writer must try to be free of prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and hatred; strive to be a better human being than the writer normally is, and to do this through concentration on a single word, and then another, and another. This is splendid work, as worthy and demanding as any, and the will and resilience to do it are good for the writer's soul.” KnowsWritingTryingHumansBookSoulHardSpiritHuman BeingsHatredPrejudiceStriveEndureWorthyResilienceGloriousConcentrationDesksSplendidMeannessSingle WordPettiness Author:Andre Dubus
“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.” NeedsWritingTryingHumansHardDoneStoriesSpeakHuman BeingsSilenceQuietFlowMortalityShort StoryStory Writers Book:Broken Vessels: Essays Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.” PeopleFeelsTryingBelieveHumansRealPastUniverseHuman BeingsEventsSucceedAngryDon't BelieveGuiltyBuddhistFrustratedRoutesOblivionSlidesClevernessPast Events Author:Robert Reed
“I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.” ThinkingTryingHumansSometimesGuyHuman BeingsHumourIntense Author:Ray Liotta
“Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingTryingHumansPersonsI CanHuman BeingsThis WorldCreaturesGiving UpCommunicateJust Give Up Author:Fred Rogers