“People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.” PeopleLooksRealBigsCoursesFeetEasierLowsPhotographMonstersFakeSnowmanLoch Ness Monster Author:Errol Morris
“I like to wear less make-up and be tougher. The primp stuff is exciting for people, but it's less exciting for me. It's definitely fun, but I like low maintenance.” PeopleFunStuffLowsExcitingMaintenance Author:Maggie Q
“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization” PeopleShouldIdeasSelfSchoolSocialInterestCommunitySupportEconomyCitizensCivilizationLowsSeekingFavorsSellingTendenciesBuyingGradesMutualExpensesRise AboveBenevolenceInconsistentSocial SystemsAnti SocialInterchangeBuying And Selling Book:Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887 Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
“I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsPersonsReasonPhilosophyFactsJobsRoomsKnow HowFailingSucceedTenLowsNot SureLunacyHigh PointsLow Points Author:Judd Nelson
“The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.” PeopleThinkingThreeInterestCuttingLowsRedDressesQuartersAngleCarpetRed CarpetPosing Author:Marc Jacobs
“How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsCountryStatesYoungUnitedEducationUnited StatesMilitaryCollegeAmountHigherLowsSpendingEndlessEducatedGermanyOther CountriesScotlandHigher EducationSwedenWorkforceDenmarkTuitionNorwayAustriaFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.” PeopleImaginationEasierSkillsLowsPriorities Author:Denis Waitley
“What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?” PeopleNeedsFeelsKindWarSelfSelf EsteemLowsEsteemFeel BetterLow Self Esteem Author:Bill Hicks
“It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing.” PeopleKnowsLooksArtistSongAsksBlessingLowsPicksPhonesStationsUnbelievableFamiliarityNew Artists Author:Rodney Atkins
“It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.” PeopleWorldDifferentTurnsStuffLevelsSkyStreetsKeysLimitsLowsAdvantageMainstreamDifferent WorldsBuzzLow KeySaturationSky Is The Limit Author:Joe Budden
“I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve.” PeopleNeedsImportantDoneClassEconomyMiddleTaxesLowsDeserveAgreeMiddle ClassScrewsWhatever It Takes Author:Barack Obama
“As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingAttentionReaderLowsTolerancePityBoredBoredomHandyAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:John Scalzi
“I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.” PeopleTryingSelfSelf EsteemLowsRefuseEsteemLow Self Esteem Author:Kanye West
“It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.” PeopleBelieveBenefitsLowsPopulationIncomeCertaintyWealthySchemesHandfulPyramidsHispanicLow IncomePyramid SchemesHerbalife Author:Bill Ackman
“Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartMayLittlesStillsCausesLowsNoblePursuitOccasionsFasterEngagedTallHarshArenaContentionHeart BeatBelittleHeart BeatingNoble Causes Author:Tony Blair
“Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.” PeopleReasonPoorLowsIncomeSellingLow Income Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.” PeopleReasonLowsExpectationsOptimisticCheerful Author:Glenn Reynolds
“I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDoneFactsGrowsMissingCostLowsBrandsIconicGet It Done Author:Jonah Peretti
“What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.” PeopleKindUseHappensThreeSpeakLanguageNaturalLowsConnectionsSentencesBiblicalTypicalOne WordRegisterHebrewThree WordsYiddish Author:Etgar Keret
“I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongSaidWarUseHandsRememberGrowsStuffAttentionCuttingLowsDoctorsDetailsAccidentsPay AttentionFaithfulCivil WarNailsDrsBeing FaithfulStabbing Author:Josh Radnor
“When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsDoneCharacterStrongStudyCrazyLowsScientistNotionInsightScalesMinistersVery StrongDiggingLarge Scale Author:L. Todd Rose
“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.” PeopleSelfOrderOpportunityUnderstandingFreedomMoneyEducationPovertyRolesSupportSelf EsteemActivityModelsLowsSelf ImprovementCapitalismDeterminationEntrepreneurDetermineDeterminedEsteemEntrepreneurshipRole ModelsSelf DeterminationLackingKey To SuccessResortsRoad To SuccessLow Self EsteemDetermination MotivationalCauses Of Poverty Author:John Hope Bryant
“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.” PeopleIfsUseBlackCommunityNumbersPolicyColorHigherDrugLowsPercentResourcesRatePopulationCracksBlack PeopleNinetyArrestedCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“I mean God knows I've done tons of schlock during the course of my career and stuff that's been very low budget and really pressed for time, but I've never had an experience like this. I kept saying to people, "How do you do this?" I said to Susan [Lucci], "How do you do it?" I don't recall exactly what she answered me but it was something like "Close my eyes and think of England. You just do it."” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanSaidDoneEyeCoursesStuffCareersLowsEnglandBudgetsRecallsGod KnowsJust Do It Author:Richard Masur
“I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about 10 years ago, the WHO came out with a statement promoting it for public health interventions in many countries. It's cheap. It's very, very effective. We've never had an insecticide that has worked so well since. It's also safe. A lot of people don't realize that its toxicity profile for humans is low.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansWellsCountryFactsRealizingPromiseSafeLowsYears AgoStatementsInterventionPromotingProfilePublic HealthBannedToxicityInsecticidesDdt Author:Laura Harrington
“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.” PeopleHumansMeanLyingStuffAbilityLevelsSituationSawsRiskSeaLike YouTypeOceanLowsAreasRiversStormRisingDestructiveFarmsNew OrleansFrequencyKatrinaBangladeshDeltaSanitationBacking Up Author:Bill Gates
“People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.” PeopleHoursWealthEconomyLowsIncomeWagesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.” PeopleLeaderRolesEssentialsLowsOrganizationSurveysOrganizational Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Absolutely invest in retirement. You can always get a loan to get kids through school. I do not know of any loans to get you through retirement. The markets are seriously low from where they were (even though they've gone up 30 percent recently). Now is the time to be dollar cost averaging; the more money you put in, the more shares you buy. Save for your retirement, people.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolGoneShareCostLowsPercentDollarsRetirementMore MoneyLoan Author:Suze Orman
“People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.” PeopleIfsWantWaitingChanceLowsDisappointmentStrikesComplainingWhy NotLightning Author:John Darnielle
“The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksHeartLittlesEndsStoriesUsedCostLowsPaidCamerasBudgetsReally GreatCheaper Author:Katie Aselton
“I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people."” PeopleKindAbleWantedSexNumbersWifeLowsYeahMy FuturePrudesFuture Wife Author:Pete Wentz
“The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.” PeopleI CanCountryFightingWealthDecisionClassLowsClimateClimate ChangeIncomeInequalityWorking ClassLow IncomeWealth Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.” PeopleTryingYearsLooksTwoBigsLastsThreeJusticeWhiteForgetMillionsFoolLowsKillingLowestFeedingKill MeLynchingEquality And JusticeDepriving Author:Muhammad Ali
“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.” PeopleMeanChildrenLongMightActionTermCrimePolicyLowsResourcesCommittedFocusedPrioritiesImmigrationAdministrationLong TermAffectedEnforcementRulingRaising ChildrenResidents Author:Barack Obama
“The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.” PeopleHouseLossWalksLowsNegativeAimFewerEquityLoanPromotingPaymentJunkMortgage Author:Michael Hudson
“The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime."” PeopleMotivationFeltStreetsNeededLowsBudgetsEms Author:Ace Hood
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.” PeopleCountryWould BeMovingLyingWaterNumbersAcceptingMillionsHeardWillingLowsHundredAreasOver YouSuggestionsLarge Numbers Author:Walter Munk
“I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFacesChallengesEmotionalAmbitionLowsCrossesWorkforceHighs And Lows Author:Meera Menon
“The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.” PeopleNeedsCompanyTeamDesignHugeCostBehaviorLowsResourcesExperimentsThoughtfulFlexibilityTappingLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.” PeopleTryingI CanLowsLays Author:Mike Colter
“In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayDifferentBigsMightRunningDecisionCompanyMillionsTypeInvolvedCostLowsOrganizationDollarsInvestmentMarketingFinanceAgreementDecision MakingScenariosPharmaceuticalStakeholderPharmaceutical Companies Author:John Kao
“I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or is written by already established authors. I don't by any means try to hide what I write, but the way people think in categories here is pretty extreme: it blots out discussing the actual work on its own terms. That's made me loath to talk about my own work in terms of genre, because once you get a label, it sticks and poof go a slew of potential readers and reviewers because eww, fantasy cooties.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingMeanMadeNationsTermMy OwnFictionFantasyWrittenReaderFitLowsSticksExtremesFantasticLabelsGenreCategoriesDiscussingReviewersCooties Author:Karin Tidbeck
“There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.” PeopleWayWantYoungGivenMillionsEconomyStreetsStudentsWallIndustryElementsLowsDebtDrivenLockedLoanPredatoryStudent LoanService Industry Author:Jill Stein
“The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green.” PeopleWayHas BeensJobsYoungMotivationPoorPayStreetsStudentsWallBenefitsLowsVoteGreenDebtCandidatesTemporaryInsecureIrresistibleCrooksBail Author:Jill Stein
“This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.” PeopleWayFirstsBookRealStoriesUsePoliticalBlackPresidentLossNumbersPerspectiveLowsGainsTreatedBarackAfrican AmericanCollectionsEstablishmentColleaguesPresidencyIntroductionColumnsHighs And LowsGains And LossesEpilogues Author:Julianne Malveaux
“People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.” PeopleCountryLyingLevelsMillionsRiskSeaLowsErrorsDuesRisingComparisonCarbonEmissionsFloodingBangladeshCarbon Emissions Author:Bill McKibben
“Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction - that's why we have "days of action" where people are in real contact with each other - but it's the cheap (and low-carbon) way to do an awful lot of the planning and organizing. And we can build, for $20k, a website as good as one Exxon can build for $20 million.” PeopleWorldWayRealCountryActionFacesMillionsLowsPlanningContactAwfulAround The WorldOrganizedInteractionCarbonAbsentWebsiteFace To FaceSubstitution Author:Bill McKibben
“People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.” PeopleCountryKidsAbleJobsHoursRichSeeingCollegeTaxesLowsTiredChinaIncomeDecentWagesBillionaireIncome TaxCollege EducationTired Of Working Author:Bernie Sanders
“Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.” PeopleYearsKindDoneSeemsNightSocialPartyMinutesKeysCoupleDrugLowsConsciousEdgesDisappearAidsGladBathroomComebackPostcardsLow KeyDrug Taking Author:Carrie Fisher