“I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingBigsIssuesBuildingFitPracticalsStreamsInteriorsNavigate Author:Paul Goldberger
“Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character.” FeelsTryingEndsCharacterMightWantedGuyFeltWalksIssuesSecurityComfortableStandardsShirtsDesignerPairsBootsUniformsClosetsJeansCostumesThis GuyTruckColumbusSecurity Guards Author:Columbus Short
“I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.” PeopleWorldWayTryingStoriesIssuesAliveBarriersTraveledAmazonReefsAmazing PlacesGreat Barrier Reef Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.” TryingYearsHas BeensProblemRunningDifficultCommunityDealsStruggleIssuesViolenceGenerationsSuicideMedicalStolenPreventionAboriginalFamily RelationshipHealth ServicesMedical Problems Author:Malcolm Fraser
“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingTryingBookSometimesStoriesFormYoungEnjoyPleasureDealsEmotionLaughingIssuesRichMysteryStyleAdventureReaderAdultsComplexesSatisfactionSuspenseNarrativeIronyRelyContradictionResolveEngagementSheerImageryAmbiguityTextureGood StoryThrillersGood Reads Author:Avi
“If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the issues he fought for. He was a good friend of mine. We'll be trying to do a couple of things. One is fighting for national health care. Another is fighting to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and changing our trade policies.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightCareFightingIssuesPolicyMinesCoupleRaisesTradeHealth CareSenateGood FriendMinimumThink Of MeMinimum WageEmulateLiving Wage Author:Bernie Sanders
“A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksLittlesPersonsHomeYoungReligiousIssuesDyingGayLosingVotePrejudiceRegardMajorityThreatFolksCurrentsLocksPollsTerrificGay MarriageGay PeopleConstituentsAmbulancePull UpsFolks Home Author:Dan Savage
“Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.” ThinkingTryingBelieveMadeCountryI BelieveDarkIssuesHappenedPolicyExampleKeysCitizensMessagesLaysStartingStatementsDataSurveillanceMisleadNsaMisled Author:Ron Wyden
“There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.” MenTryingMayAbleHumanityIssuesDirectTendenciesAggressiveWarfareSuppressionLikelihood Author:Sigmund Freud
“It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.” PeopleTryingImportantFactsCareIssuesPlanetsOur PlanetImportant Issues Author:Dan Fogelberg
“Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.” TryingNaturalIssuesResearchClaimsFocusedImpulseHomeworkBulletproof Author:Amy Ziering
“Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.” WorldTryingIdeasGrowthIssuesEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicCreatingInnovationEntrepreneurShipsEmploymentEntrepreneurshipEmpoweringEnginesNew IdeasEconomic Growth Author:Klaus Schwab
“I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.” ThinkingWayTryingStillsFactsProblemRaceIssuesFrontsRelationShameGuiltPostsAddressesSophisticatedAttackingRace RelationsLashesPerpetuating Author:Danny Strong
“The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.” TryingLibertyEnemyCasesIssuesDisciplineIntellectualBackgroundsIndividualismVersusUntruth Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945
“The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues” WantTryingProblemDifficultIssuesNotesExecutives Author:Ronald D. Moore
“Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.” WorldWayTryingLooksLongStillsDifferentRealityTodayCoursesInterestingIssuesHugeLuckyApproachOvercomingYeahMedicineWesternDifferent WaysRelevantLong WayVery InterestingWestern WorldSo LuckyWomen's Health Author:Eve Hewson
“You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not allowed to enter in certain areas? We used to ask my father why the Christians lived in another neighborhood and didn’t come to our neighborhood. I think my father was trying to avoid having us think about these issues.” ThinkingTryingChristianUsedCertainAsksFatherCitiesIssuesAreasNeighborhoodDividedQuestioning Author:Rula Jebreal
“Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.” WayTryingImportantStoriesFallIssuesParticularCreatingPlanningTalesImportant Issues Author:Nancy Lam
“It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.” TryingSelfFilmIssuesBiggerPresentation Author:Ryan Gosling
“I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.” ThinkingTryingAnswersIssuesCriticalPursuitLife And DeathFrustrating Author:Robert Longo
“It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.” PeopleFeelsTryingImportantReasonStuffIssuesTeenagerImmature Author:Grimes
“When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.” PeopleIfsTryingFirstsStatesEconomyIssuesSecurityRaisedTerrorVersionsIslamicAlsScareFlexibilityConferencesFebruaryPathologyIslamic StateMunich Author:Ashraf Ghani
“The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.” WorldTryingNationsIssuesWeekKillingTinyMeritPoundsSubmissionSuperpower Author:Robert McNamara
“Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.” TryingIssuesViolence Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.” TryingLittlesFilmMy OwnIssuesExploring Author:Jason Reitman
“We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.” PeopleTryingTogetherTalkingIssuesDangerousDangerBasesMake SenseSensitiveChemicalsControversialMixing Author:Bill Maher
“I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything about both sides, you'll pretty much be in the middle again, which is the state you had when you were totally ignorant. So my theory is if you maintain total ignorance - which isn't easy, but I try - you'll be just as far ahead as if you'd spent days and days reading about the whole issue. And you have that much extra time to play Pac-man.” IfsThinkingMenTryingStatesPlayWholeUsedReadingEasySidesIssuesMiddleIgnoranceTheoryAreasIgnorantExtrasBoth SidesPacsExtra Time Author:Emo Philips
“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.” IfsTryingWatchesIssuesFiveImagineMinutesBalanceDisasterFive MinutesWatch Me Author:Greg Giraldo
“When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.” TryingHumansEarthSexHurtIssuesFailingWho You AreSticksCleverHuman LifeConfusedDiscoveringBeing HurtDiscovering Who You Are Author:Barbara Ess
“For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.” PeopleWayTryingCertainIssuesPhotographyFairsResolveUnfairImmediacy Author:Jerome Liebling
“I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on the site. It's nice when people have a forum to discuss things among themselves. If you had a certain special-occasion blog I could probably contribute...I normally post on my site if I'm writing about music, and if you have a specific issue you're addressing or you want me to write about certain topics, then I'd be happy to try.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsWritingTryingStatesMightCertainIssuesNiceSpecialOccasionsPostsWant MeSiteTopicsBlogsYou Want MeForumsSpecial Occasion Author:Hilary Hahn