“The movement really has evolved because their initial demands [such as factory codes of conduct and disclosure of supplier names and addresses] have virtually all been met. This recent idea of factory certification is building on what they got some time ago.” IdeasNamesMovementBuildingMetsDemandCodeAddressesFactoriesInitialsDisclosureSuppliers Author:Pietra Rivoli
“But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot even protect their own people. And more than that, they'll often collude with the infidels. And if you recall, the initial reaction of the Arab league was to criticize Hezbollah and damn Hezbollah for the war. And they eventually had to turn 180degrees and support Hezbollah.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsMadeImportantWarGovernmentPastTurnsSupportProtectCriticismReactionsDamnLeagueCriticizeRecallsInitialsBin LadenOver The PastInfidelHezbollah Author:Michael Scheuer
“Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.” WorldReasonGoneOrganizationTradeTerroristAlsCapabilityInitialsKnockingAl QaedaIncompetenceIncompetentWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Michael Scheuer
“I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.” ReasonRunningPassionChristChurchConcernAssumingWitBoredBuriedPreacherInitialsDebris Author:Frederick Buechner
“The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more obvious ideas on the table, that way you can move on to something more abstract, yet still relevant.” WayShouldStillsImportantIdeasMovingTablesObviousAbstractCollectionsRelevantSelectionInitialsNuanceHighlights Author:Mia Moretti
“I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive. Initial needs have to be met first, and then later things like patriotism come in.” NeedsFirstsHas BeensInterestNeededMetsConflictLuxuryServingVeteranInitialsConflict Of Interest Author:Donna M. Loring
“I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.” PeopleKnowsWantPainTogetherRememberSidesPoorStruggleRichGracePrayingWinnerSomedayCategoriesLoserInitialsI PrayRockersRich PoorUncoolYuppiesDruggies Author:Jud Wilhite
“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.” WayPersonsActorsSkinsIntentionObligationIronicInitialsPromotingRadar Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.” WorldIdeasWantedFilmHorrorInitialsHorror Film Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.” WorldHumansJourneyCenturyAreasAround The WorldSparks21st CenturyInitialsSan FranciscoHuman TraffickingTraffickingBay Area Author:David Batstone
“It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.” ThinkingKnowsWarAmericaCultureMiddleTouchedInitialsPresent DayClip Author:Jim Gaffigan
“There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.” MadeStillsWould BeYoungInstrumentsTradeGuitarInitialsBeing CoolFleasTrade OffsFlea Markets Author:John Petrucci
“When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.” WorldNamesBehindsThis WorldGratitudeImportanceStorytellingInitialsLegitimacy Author:Brené Brown
“I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.” LevelsFootballPressureInitials Author:Bill Belichick
“After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.” WayNeedsPersonsDifferentBigsTogetherLeftGroupsKingsOfficeMeetingsOrganizedStaffDefiniteInitialsLutherDifferent Place Author:Ella Baker
“I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesTwoGuyHonestMovementBeing HonestTeensRecallsInitialsVirginiaNashvilleHullAlbanyRichmond Author:Ella Baker
“Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.” PoliticalEffortStudentsVotersCommitteesParticipationInitialsParcelRegistrationCoordinatingVoter RegistrationPolitical ParticipationSncc Author:Ella Baker
“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.” PeopleIfsSaidIdeasStatesKidsWantedLawSupportMachinesMovedDetermineOpeningPullingTribesPollsInitialsGambleGamingPlaying GamesCasinosSlot MachinesRepeating HistoryHistory Repeats Itself Author:Donna M. Loring
“The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.” InitialsCover UpsWrongdoing Book:Madam Secretary Source: Madam Secretary
“One of the things all entrepreneurs struggle with is where their efforts will have the highest impact. Unfortunately, too many of us continue to do the very same things that led to our initial success because we're good at it and we've created and invested in systems to support them” EffortSupportStruggleHighestImpactEntrepreneurInitials Author:Lewis Schiff
“I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.” ThinkingStatesUniverseGivenExistenceEventsLowsRemarkableSuggestionsProbabilityInitials Author:Elliott Sober
“After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.” TwoYoungVoiceClassForeverMiddleChangedFindingsAlbumsMiddle ClassBobSoloInitialsDylanAcousticsWoodyPseudoPopular MusicReinventingHobosZimmerman Author:Jay Michaelson
“"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It seemed more interesting to play it ultrastraight and to have the viewer's initial reaction be one of laughter and disbelief - and just have the whole thing become progressively more uncomfortable.” WritingIdeasPlayWholeNightPresidentInterestingMiddleStyleLaughterCrisisReactionsBelovedUncomfortableEpisodesViewersInitialsDisbeliefKnockingParodyMiddle Of The NightAnthemNational Anthem Author:Charlie Brooker
“I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.” NeedsWritingFansStudentsCollegeMajorsProgramFellowsIntentionMathPhysicsStorytellerInitialsFusionCollege StudentsPrinceton Author:Jon Spaihts
“They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.” ShouldDifferentPresidentTermPlansEconomicTrumpSellsClintonExpectedStatus QuoInitialsMidterms Author:Maria Bartiromo
“The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.” HelpingPathRevolutionRevolutionaryInitials Author:Akbar Ganji
“This is someone [Michael Flynn] who is considered a loyalist and as we have watched this transition process unfold, again roiled by reports of turmoil, Donald Trump seems to be really focusing right now in this initial phase on loyalists.” SeemsProcessTrumpRight NowReportsTransitionPhasesInitialsTurmoilLoyalists Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.” IdeasWindowMachinesAvailableAccessMotivatedTapeInitialsMicrophonesRecordersCassettesSearsAmbienceCassette Tapes Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.” ThinkingWritingKindIdeasPastWaitingSellsConnectedStayingSparksGood IdeasInitials Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“The struggle hasn't ended. It's only just begun in our view. In the sense that if all goes well during the elections and we emerge as the government there will still be another form of struggle. But there's going to be lots of work in reconstruction, resettling people. In the initial period we will expect all the support groups we have here in Britain and elsewhere to concentrate their efforts in enabling us to resettle our people.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsGovernmentFormViewsEffortSupportStruggleGroupsPeriodsElectionBritainElsewhereInitialsEnablingReconstructionSupport Groups Author:Robert Mugabe
“We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.” PeopleGivingLongStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsGenerationsMovementRight NowGiving UpHistoricalJewArguingCivil RightsLong AgoUnfortunateAsiaInitialsIndigenousGeographyCivil Rights Movement Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.” TryingAchieveHistoricalCriticalInnocenceInitials Author:Frank Moore Cross
“I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.” ThinkingImportantStatesAmericaUnitedDealsNumbersUnited StatesSurpriseTreatedRepresentativesUnited States Of AmericaIgnoredInitialsHead Of State Author:Susan Rice
“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.” PeopleKnowsMovingRoomsTvsListeningFitPressesWingsWestFolksTinyNineFortyConferencesInitialsPress ConferencesUptight Author:Reince Priebus
“The one thing that we discussed was whether or not we want to move the initial press conferences in the EOB, which, by the way, is the White House. So no one is moving out of the White House.” WayWantMovingHouseWhiteOne ThingPressesWhite HouseConferencesInitialsPress ConferencesMoving Out Author:Reince Priebus
“The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.” WayWarSelfEffortEventsDestructionRelatedMourningJustifyTargetInitialsSense Of SelfSanctification Author:Judith Butler
“Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.” CareLawProcessStepsSupportTakenRepublicanDemocratCongressHealth CareInitialsAffordableAffordable Care ActRallyingAlready TakenRepealing Author:Rachel Martin
“I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time.” IfsKnowsFeelsBookReadingSixProjectsScriptsCommittedGuiltyReading BooksInitials Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.” ThinkingFirstsMadeRealDoneTogetherResultsHellStupidMonthsScaredI RealizedResolveNaiveInitialsStupid ThingsBowieBeing TogetherAngela Author:David Bowie
“I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.” ThinkingKnowsMenTryingHardBigsRunningYoungGuyBitsBornRolesAudienceBrotherFilledYoung ManInitialsYoung GuysBorn To Run Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I'm surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making.” ThinkingReasonBigsActorsStrongSuccessfulPersonalityWho I AmReason WhyOutsidersInitialsEnsembleForgedMovie Making Author:Rob Lowe
“With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.” WayKindWantedArmsInstinctKicksThrowingInitialsPunchingGrappling Author:Chad Stahelski
“With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the initial feedback was: "No, Bryce is too nice." That's part of the reason why I really love auditions as well - you get to try out a character and try out different versions of a character.” TryingWellsDifferentReasonCharacterHelpingWantedNiceInvolvedProjectsFolksVersionsReason WhyAuditionsFeedbackInitialsToo Nice Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences of the other 49 states and Washington DC is not relevant. That was the position of the United States government on Yugoslavia and other places around the world but not on Ukraine. However, morality and the law as I understand it are that any people should have the right to leave, just as explained in the initial words of the US Declaration of Independence.” PeopleWorldShouldStatesGovernmentEarthLawUnitedUnited StatesPositionMoralityShould HaveIndependenceLikesAround The WorldCaliforniaRelevantDeclarationPreferenceInitialsUkraineDeclaration Of IndependenceState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentWashington DcYugoslavia Author:David Swanson
“My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.” IfsWayWritingKindSometimesStoriesRealityProcessPositionTheoryNotionStatementsStorytellingDramaticTensionConceptionNonfictionInitialsGood Storytelling Author:George Saunders
“All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.” Has BeensMomentsHappensArtistCertainCreationConsiderationInitials Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.” NeedsYearsLooksLongDoeVoiceTermFivePlansOffersSolutionsGunGlassesObviousLocalsLong TermFive YearsCrapInitialsSandwichesGeeseOverheadVoice Of GodFive Year PlansHonking Author:Mary Karr
“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.” IfsKnowsYearsKindChildrenTwoDifferentCertainThreeDifferencesBrainCasesPersonalityAmountSpeechBehaviorObviousEducationalThree YearsAutismSevereDelayInterventionInitialsGet RealAbnormalVariablesGood EducationNeurologyAspergersThree Year OldsChildren With Autism Author:Temple Grandin
“The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.” BigsSeemsJobsGrowthEconomyEconomicStreetsWallImpactInvestmentEmploymentCollapseModestInitialsEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactMain Street Author:Gerald Epstein
“Raising interest rates might lead to some initial reductions in wealth by lowering asset prices, but it could also take a bite out of your paycheck and dampen your prospects of finding a job. It's a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't.” IfsMightJobsBitsInterestWealthFindingsRateAssetsBitesInitialsReductionProspectsPaychecksInterest Rate Author:Gerald Epstein