“When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.” PeopleIfsImportantDifferentLinesPiecesWalkingCreatingMajorsHarmonyImportant ThingsComposerMinorsUp And DownSchubertTriads Author:Elliott Carter
“Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.” PeopleMadeCreatingMajorsDrawsImpactCrowdsDrawingHallsFestivalsLarge CrowdsImpact On Society Author:George Wein
“If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.” IfsDoeAsksHoursConditionsHonestyCreatingMajorsCustomersCorporationsEmployeeGoodsCeoWorking Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's healthcare mandate is constitutional. This is a major victory for President Obama, who spent three years promoting it, and a major setback for Mitt Romney, who spent three years creating it.” YearsThreePresidentDecisionVictoryCreatingMajorsCourtSupremePresident ObamaThree YearsHealthcareSupreme CourtPromotingRomneySetbackMandatesLandmarks Author:Jay Leno
“That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.” WellsMeanJobsEnergyWaterDealsSunAchieveWindCallingCreatingMajorsProgramCleanClimateIncludingControlledPortionsInfrastructureRestorationTransportationEmissionsEcosystemsRenewable EnergyGuidelinesPrototypeNew DealPublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.” YearsStatesProblemGovernmentNationsMy OwnJudgingProductsOughtCreatingMajorsConcernIndependentElectionTrialsSelectArizonaState GovernmentJudiciaryThrough The YearsMajor ProblemsIndependent Judiciary Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.” PeopleLongPlayYoungRolesEconomicPolicyCreatingMajorsEconomicsCaringFeminineEconomic PolicyCaregiving Author:Riane Eisler
“Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.” PeopleYearsHelpingBigsOpportunityGamesRaceFiveEventsCreatingMajorsSeriesI RealizedFive YearsSmokingHelp MeOlympicsBostonMarathonProposalCosmeticsOlympic GamesPoppiesMunichSponsorshipAvon Author:Kathrine Switzer
“In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.” WorldWayYearsGovernmentPresidentDemocracyStudyPlansCreatingMajorsSocialismChanging The WorldHarvardFreshmanJuliusTanzania Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.” OpportunityGoalAchieveBuildingCreatingMajorsEuropeEndureBrandsStrategic Author:Howard Schultz