“No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.” AbleMovingProcessTechnologyIndustryEvolutionDetermineMoving AheadEvolution Of Technology Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.” WayTodayAbleShareFansPositionIndustryNewsModelsCommunicateTrendsBlogsRelatableInstagram Author:Karlie Kloss
“Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.” AbleNightSexStruggleIndustryDemandFemaleMalesForestsExceedProstitutionPatronOverflowPower StruggleAmoralityService IndustryTestifyingMoppingMopping Up Book:Sexual Personae Source: Sexual Personae
“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTryingArtUseAbleSimplePowerfulEffectsPaintingFineIndustryDirectAlbumsEntertainmentBunchShirtsT ShirtUsefulnessFine ArtsEntertainment IndustryLogosReally PowerfulAlbum Covers Author:Andrew W.K.
“Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.” ThinkingBelieveWholeBigsAbleCareersIndustryFocusedBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouStay Focused Author:Ace Hood
“The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.” MenAbleAcceptingFashionStyleIndustryMen And WomenDecidedPreservesAbandonIntroducingFashion Industry Author:Alison Lurie
“If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.” PeopleIfsMeanAbleNationsIndustrySecureManufacturingBackboneAuto Industry Author:Jennifer Granholm
“I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.” KindReasonKidsAbleActionWantedFilmWatchesGrewIndustryGrew UpInspiredBeing A WomanFilm IndustryUnimaginableAction Movie Author:Zoe Saldana
“With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.” AbleAnswersInformationIndustryCrisisDrinkingAlcoholCompellingUnderage Drinking Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.” FeelsAbleSocialGrowsInterestChanceSpacePayRolesCuttingShareModernIndustryDemandDirectFinancialUglyCommandMagazinesAdsBrighterSurgeonsCoverageAdvertisementsCosmeticsSocial Roles Author:Naomi Wolf
“I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.” DifferentAbleJobsIndustryLuckyAreas Author:Brad Goreski
“Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'” WorldAbleActorsDealsGrowing UpGrowingLandIndustry Author:Lake Bell
“I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people not just to look forward to having more abortions but being able to sell that fetal tissue for purposes - these centers - for purposes of making a profit off of it, as you've seen in some of these Planned Parenthood affiliates.” PeopleThinkingLooksAblePurposeSituationIndustrySellsProfitAbortionParenthoodIncentivesTissuesPlanned Parenthood Author:Marco Rubio
“The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.” KindBookIdeasAbleAmericaSpiritThreeCreativityIndustryComicDamnNew IdeasComic BookAnything Is PossibleIdealisticCool Things Author:Sam Worthington
“People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm able to be in this culture and in this industry and fruitful because I don't look to my circumstances to determine what I believe to be true about God.” PeopleBelieveLooksI CanAbleCultureAsksI BelieveIndustryCircumstancesDetermineBelieverConclusionBeing True Author:Kelly Clark
“My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?” IfsHumansRealAbleJobsFilmHuman BeingsHavensIndustryHuman ExperienceFilm IndustryReal Human Author:Emily Browning
“Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn about showing up on time. The sheer volume of work, on a daily basis, blows your mind and forces you to really work that muscle of memorization and just being able to change things on your feet.” MindAbleForceActingFeetStageIndustryBasesBlowMusclesCampsBootsVolumeJust BeingSheerSoapShowing UpBoot CampMemorization Author:Michael Graziadei
“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.” PeopleDoeSometimesFactsAbleImaginationIndustryBeatsSoftwareCompetitorsMicrosoftVigilant Author:Bill Gates
“Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection.” AbleLastsFilmLostFashionIndustryDemandHarderCollectionsCalendarsBack AgainFilm IndustryCrank Author:Tom Ford
“Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.” ChildrenUseAbleCertainTeachIndustrySkillsOur ChildrenErasEducation System Author:Naveen Jain
“I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensAgeAbleLastsGuyFunHugeIndustryYears AgoGoldenCorporationsThirtyEfficientGarbageMusic BusinessThirty YearsMusic IndustryGolden AgeOddballs Author:Adam Schlesinger
“You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.” WayWantNeedsWould BeAbleMovingGrowsStuffTermSituationKeysIndustryProtectMajorsBasesLabelsOwnershipLocksOrganismsFlexibilityTouringMusic IndustryProtect YourselfMerchandise Author:Eddie Vedder
“What drives me now is the desire to be able to keep doing this. I love making records and performing, and success means I will continue to have the privilege to do that. I know it's not going to last forever, but I'd like to keep having success as long as I can so that I can still be a part of this industry.” KnowsMeanLongStillsI CanAbleLastsDesireForeverRecordsIndustryPrivilegePerformingLove Making Author:Martina McBride
“The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.” IfsMightAbleEnjoyWhiteFashionColorIndustryWinePantsFashion IndustryGarlicKetchupDenimTight Pants Author:Diablo Cody
“I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some of the other models weren't. Jeez - it's hardly rocket science, is it? It's not as if you can get to be a better model..... .you can either get away with it, or you cant? And most of them were also acutely aware of the passage of time.....and how it would affect their careers.” IfsThinkingAbleCareersLaughingIndustryModelsGet AwayPassagesCantRocketsDetachedPassage Of TimeRocket Science Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.” FeelsKindAbleArtistIndustryMusic IndustryAnomaliesThrowback Author:Jewel
“It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingPersonsAbleArtistDifficultEnvironmentIndustryNormalPagesBoxesOddsNeed YouConfined Author:Mos Def
“Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.” PlayAbleFilmLove IsCreativeTypeIndustryUniqueWake UpEverydayPotMeltingFilm IndustryMelting Pot Author:Kyle Cassie
“Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.” PeopleWorldWantStatesStoriesUseAgeAbleFormUsedCommunityMiddleChangedIndustryHabitNewsAccessNewspapersGoldenDespiteAround The WorldConsumersReportsCommentEnginesSurfGolden AgeSearch Engine Author:Arianna Huffington
“Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.” WantHeartSometimesAbleArtistSongDealsSituationRecordsIndustryCorporationsEvident Author:Chuck D
“I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.” PeopleThinkingAbleCommunitySeeingIndustryInternetMajorsToolsLabelsSchemesTypicalPyramidsMusic IndustrySuperstarTop DownPyramid Schemes Author:Amanda Palmer
“I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide. And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.” WorldHas BeensProblemAbleYoungCulturePayPositionIndustryEqualEntertainmentInequalityAround The WorldBoardsYoung WomenCoverageEntertainment Industry Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.” MightAbleHavensIndustryPopsRelatedNichePop Music Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“We [in Think Broader.] went through and looked at coverage in different industries and were able to point out to newsrooms that they had these hidden biases. We'd do a review and provide a report card, and provide our suggestion on how to avoid bias.” ThinkingDifferentAbleIndustryCardsReportsReviewsBiasSuggestionsCoverageReport Cards Author:Paula Broadwell
“For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.” TryingWellsImportantDifferentMatterAbleActionFilmChallengesComedyChangedTvsIndustryDramaCrossesIndependentStudiosMediumsGenreDifferent ThingsPushingToesHere And ThereHindsightIndependent FilmDipDifferent GenresChallenging Myself Author:Michelle Monaghan