“Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.” PeopleFirstsLooksTodayCertainWealthLossViewsStruggleSecurityAveragePoint Of ViewStabilitySovietHostilityUkraineBreakdown Author:Victor Pinchuk
“The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.” ImportantDoneLightSeemsMotivationalTodayActionEnergyRealizingLossWeekPerspectiveTasksSlaveTyrannyAppealsInstantFadesRecallsUrgentIrresistibleMomentaryDeceptiveProminence Author:Charles Hummel
“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.” PeopleTodayIndividualLossEnvironmentViolenceInformationIdentityPlanetsRevolutionElectricTestingExtinctionPromptsReassuranceRediscoveryLoss Of Identity Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” ArtTodayFormIndividualLossMusicGroupsJazzContact Author:Dave Brubeck
“Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.” ChildrenMightTodayYoungGirlLossWhiteYouthHatredMirrorsCompetitionAgingMalesEnvyTalesSnowInnocenceTriumphAcquireCyclesSparksViciousSnow WhiteVicious Cycles Book:The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films Source: The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.” MenShouldTodayEarthLyingWaterLossBehindsAirSurvivalShould HaveAbsolutesSpeciesNotionIncludingDisasterHolesForestsWelfareDestroyingLayersThreateningConquestDominionChaoticAir And WaterOzonePower Of NatureOzone Layer Author:Riane Eisler
“God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.” WorldTodayPainLossBrokenAcknowledgeGrievingInvitingPain And Loss Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.” KnowsWorldYearsTodayWishLossWrittenLettersTwentiesThirtyThirty YearsToday's WorldGreat Loss Author:David Burnett
“We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?” KnowsWorldWantKindPersonsLongEnoughTodayDeathReligionSufferingDiesLosesLossStreetsThis WorldMetsConcernGenuineIgnorantFamily And FriendsAfter DeathSentient BeingsPresumingGenuine ConcernLiving Long Author:Sam Harris
“We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.” NeedsHeartLittlesSelfTodayLawLeftLossExerciseCapableCriticismCaughtBrilliantReasoningConformityPrisonerModestyNeverthelessVocabularyDecadenceSchizophrenicSelf CriticismDoctoring Author:Albert Camus
“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. People love to read stories. They like to know you as a real person who has your struggle, pain, success and failure, etc. One well-known example is Jared Fogle's weight loss story which made millions of dollars for Subway. Start to collect your stories from today and use them in your ad campaigns.” PeopleKnowsWellsPersonsMadeRealDoneStoriesUseTodayPainLossKnownMillionsStruggleExampleTheoryWeightDollarsCampaignsEtcAdsWell KnownWeight LossSuccess And FailurePersonal ExperiencesSubwayPersuasiveReal PersonLove To Read Author:David Ogilvy
“African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.” IfsHappensWould BeTodayEarthAmericaFacesLossRocksJazzHip HopHipsAfrican AmericanGermanyHopsRock And RollAmerican MusicMumbaiAfrican American Music Author:David Simon
“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!” PeopleMayHas BeensTodayPastInterestLossFashionCapacityCaughtCynicismOur PastBaggageLoss Of Faith Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Today the world has to accept what India has been saying about terrorism. India's dialogue on terrorism, the losses India has suffered due to terrorism, the losses suffered by humanity, the world is now acknowledging that.” WorldHas BeensTodayHumanityLossAcceptingIndiaTerrorismDuesDialogue Author:Narendra Modi
“Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.” PeopleProblemDreamTodayLossTroubleTomorrowPerfectionThriveImaginaryNostalgic Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.” WorldGivingKindDifferentTodayLossPerfectThreatVarious Author:Wang Jianwei
“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.” WorldMayTodayLostLossIntellectualWestWesternImpressionFeaturesElitesDeclineObserversRulingCivicsWestern World Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.” KnowsWayMayTodayDesireLossLordTakenTearsGratitudeFaithfulRejoice Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” WantGovernmentTodaySpiritualPoliticalLossDemocracyGenerationsMaterialsTomorrowResourcesImpulseEaseAssetsHeritagePeersGrandchildrenConvenienceMortgagePhantomsMilitary Industrial ComplexFarewell Address Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower