“I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.” ThinkingShouldKindSchoolMajorsCloudsCrowdsRidiculousInitiativePrivate SchoolNet Worth Author:Marc Benioff
“It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsProblemAmericaUsedRealizingSeeingGenerationsFeetCollegeMajorsLifetimeGraduatesDepressingRhetoricThings ChangeObsoleteDisruptionGoing To CollegeAfraid Of Change Author:Jason Silva
“If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldKindHas BeensFactsStoriesUsedHappenedCrimeMajorsWeaponsShotsStandingShould HaveRidiculousBest ThingsChemicalsBowsSyriaInquiryShould Have BeenJoiningChemical WeaponsBandwagon Author:Noam Chomsky
“I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.” MenKindMeanAbleWantedCrimeProjectsMajorsCatholicBlindComicSpidersImageryIntriguedImpedimentsSpider ManDaredevilSpeech Impediment Author:Frank Miller
“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.” MenKindJobsRealizingLonelinessFiguresMajorsLonelyComplainingComplaintsFeeling LonelyFigure SkatingPublic FiguresLonely Man Author:Richard M. Nixon
“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.” ThinkingMindFirstsHumansKindStatesSecurityMajorsThreatTerrorismNuclearShoreNational SecurityFluRoguesProliferationPandemicsNuclear Proliferation Author:Barack Obama
“I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.” KindPoliticalSportsMajorsOrganizationJournalismArenaIntriguingCommentary Author:J. C. Watts
“I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.” KindTwoHomeWhiteMissingCollegeMajorsTrainRatsLabsPsych Author:Steven Yeun
“There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.” WorldKindVoiceChurchResponsibilityTeachConversationMajorsCriticsIncludingSaintAll KindsLatterSidelinesSaturatedLatter DaysLdsLatter Day Saints Author:M. Russell Ballard
“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.” ThinkingShouldTryingYearsFirstsKindMadeEndsReasonPhilosophyFeltForgetImagineShapesEatingMajorsIntellectualMeatVegetarianAnnoyingConformMoldPretentiousThoughts On LifeParadoxicalSophomoreIntellectual LifeMeat EatingSophomore Year Author:Jonathan Safran Foer