“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.” PeopleWorldLooksPersonsSelfEnoughActionSufferingResultsWonderExampleProduceFedsInactionFamineCaloriesIrresponsibilitySelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Lee Strobel
“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.” IfsYearsLooksMadeCountryCharacterAbleLastsPovertyEconomyProgressGenerationsExampleGrewPercentEastIndianAsian1960sPhenomenalAsian Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.” IfsLifeGivingLooksSelfUseRealityBeautifulSuccessBehindsFrontsExampleHugeMiseryVanityHidingBehind YouSelf AbsorbedPeacock Author:Pope Francis
“Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.” WantLooksDifferentLightUsedMotherFatherLeftSituationExampleSonCaughtWant MeHe Left Me Author:French Montana
“Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.” WayLooksTurnsWishSituationExampleGratitudeGratefulWork OutOutcomesSilverBe GratefulPositive Outcome Author:Zelig Pliskin
“When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.” LooksHas BeensCountryCommunityCitiesExampleTransformationPoliceGuidancePartnershipConsentDecree Author:Ronnie Dunn
“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.” IfsThinkingWayLooksLittlesBookEnoughFallUniverseMy OwnWonderExampleShapesRainWindowRoundsDetailsClassicFascinatingNoticingOwn BusinessFacetsRaindropsMinding My Own Business Author:Diane Ackerman
“It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.” LooksStatesDealsTechnologySuccessfulExampleProgramUniversityFundGrantsCollaborationMinnesotaClinic Author:Brian Thompson
“Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.” LooksStatesGovernmentInterestDemocracySuccessfulExampleConcernedDemocraticIraqPopulationAggressive Author:Ahmed Chalabi
“Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.” PeopleIfsLooksHardKnownCareersRiskExampleRuinedTradingRisk It Author:Larry Hite
“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.” IfsWantLooksRealityOrderLostWishCommonMistakeCarExampleKeysCar Keys Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.” ThinkingWorldLooksNaturalExampleObjectsPlantDumbComplexityQuantumMechanicNatural WorldQuantum MechanicsSmartphonesPhotosynthesis Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.” ThinkingMindLooksDoeImportantPlayCharacterSpiritExampleFemaleImportant ThingsGreat ThingsSuperheroSexiness Author:Jessica Chastain
“Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.” LooksBodyUniverseTreeExampleOceanCaughtWheelchairsLooking For LoveSeparatenessExamples Of Love Author:Ram Dass