“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsHas BeensInterestChallengesMy OwnBreakConditionsMediaPaintingSizeScalesMediums Author:Lee Krasner
“The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...” PeopleHas BeensStoriesAbleChallengesShareMediaEncouragementPersonal Stories Author:Bethany Hamilton
“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.” PeopleImportantDifferentEnoughWholeTodaySidesChallengesModernMediaInformationPositionCommunicationTendenciesLatterInvitedInfluentialViewpointsModern Communication Author:Pope Francis
“If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.” IfsWorldShowsAgeFilmChallengesWatchesMediaEventsNewsGravesEveningLegacyDrsStatesmenTouchyKissingerWorld Events Author:Eugene Jarecki
“I've got to challenge myself more, and not listen to anybody else, and not listen to any media or bloggers, but just listen to myself. I've got to push myself. If I don't believe I'm growing, and I believe I'm just coasting, then I've got to get off the train. If I feel I'm growing, I have to keep going. It's a long marathon.” IfsFeelsBelieveLongI BelieveChallengesGrowingMediaTrainDon't BelieveKeep GoingMarathonJust ListenBloggers Author:Sam Worthington
“Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.” WellsDoeCountryGovernmentChallengesMediaCitizensTreatsDeterminedConventionsElitesPassiveIgnoredAffirmingPosingDissidents Author:Glenn Greenwald
“I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.” PeopleFacesFunBlackChallengesWalksTechnologyComedyMediaPositionExpectationsJournalismVisibleBrooklynBlack Face Author:Baratunde Thurston
“Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.” ChallengesDifferencesOur LivesMediaCommunicationMajorsSafetyMaking A DifferenceZoneRetreatSafety Zone Author:Walter Mikac
“The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through - instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage.” ArtEyeChallengesMediaFashionMaterialsAmountIncrediblesSpreadAccessFantasticSpoiledArchives Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland