“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensUseAgeMotherSpeakLanguageBornTechnologyCuttingRevolutionInternetAdultsOkayTwentiesCamerasEdgesTongueThirtyExpertsDigitalMailAssistantsSurfLaptopsForeign LanguageCutting EdgeMother TongueDigital TechnologyPowerpointDigital Revolution Author:Ken Robinson
“Everything I do, I try to think, Okay, what are the ramifications? Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.” IfsThinkingTryingUseUsedClothesPercentOkayClothingsCottonPesticidesRamifications Author:Woody Harrelson
“The real problem devolves around class lines once again: it's the street hormones that folks without insurance, or folks who are too young for prescriptions without parental okay, use. Sometimes those hormones can be pretty rough.” RealSometimesUseProblemYoungLinesClassStreetsOkayFolksRoughPrescriptionsHormonesReal ProblemsParental Author:Kate Bornstein
“You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.” ThinkingMindPlayUseKidsAbleImaginationCreativeOkayBe Creative Author:AnnaSophia Robb
“If you look at the portion of the GPU available to compute throughout the frame, it varies dramatically from instant to instant. For example, something like opaque shadow map rendering doesn't even use a pixel shader, it's entirely done by vertex shaders and the rasterization hardware - so graphics aren't using most of the 1.8 teraflops of ALU available in the CUs. Times like that during the game frame are an opportunity to say, 'Okay, all that compute you wanted to do, turn it up to 11 now.'” IfsLooksDoneUseWantedTurnsOpportunityGamesExampleShadowOkayAvailableInstantMapsPortionsVaryHardwareRenderingOpaquePixels Author:Mark Cerny
“As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.” IfsLongUseUsedHateViolenceMinesDrugOkayViolence Against WomenBash Author:Angelique Kidjo
“I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.” KnowsYearsSaidI CanUseNumbersHalfKnow HowGoneComputerOkayPhonesChecksPilotsMailPalmsBatteriesPhone Numbers Author:Marc Jacobs
“It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.” KnowsWantSometimesUseDoorsOkayRestaurantsToilets Author:Carlos Mencia
“You can`t use hair spray, because hair spray is going to affect the ozone. I`m trying to figure out - okay, I`m in my room in New York City and I want to put a little spray, so that I can - all right? Right?” WantTryingLittlesI CanUseRoomsCitiesFiguresNew YorkHairOkayNew York CitySprayOzone Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.” PeopleNeedsUseTodayAmericaBeautifulSocialHurtWealthAnimalFiveFourShareMediaNew YorkMessagesOkaySocial MediaBillionsCampaignsInnocentMagazinesOur SocietyPrintDestroyingAdsContinentsElephantsAsiaNew York TimesRobbingBraceletNot Okay Author:Patrick Bergin
“I would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support the rebels there. It's okay to support those people who share your view. But for the United States to be embroiled in a civil war in Syria against [Bashr] Assad I think is a big mistake.” PeopleThinkingWarStatesUseBigsUnitedViewsMistakeUnited StatesSupportShareOkayCivil WarRebelTroopsSyriaIsisAssadBig Mistake Author:John Kasich
“I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it.” HelpingUseOughtMoonTestsOkayDollarsSpendingBillionsFundSomething NewBreakthroughBeneficialSaturn Author:Burt Rutan
“I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.” PeopleGivingWritingLooksSaidBookUseChristianLastsFoundGivenCommunityChurchCompanyCallingAdvantageOkayGive MeFortuneIntentionScreensFavorsSecularRadarChristian Community Author:John C. Maxwell
“Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.” NeedsWellsHelpingUseGovernmentJobsWaterTeachMomDadMouthsOkayTeethBrushesYour MomMom And DadScamsFluoride Author:Jesse Ventura
“Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.” IfsWellsStillsUseAnswersMillionsFiguresTomorrowConsciousTestsOkayLotteryDough Author:Douglas Coupland
“Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look doubtful. My head didn't work with words very well- at least not in this abstract, descriptive sort of way. Grace:"Sensitive" I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy" Grace:"Creative" Sam:"Dangerously emo" Grace:"Thoughtful" Sam:"Feng shui." I laughed so hard I snorted. Grace:"How did you get feng shui out of thoughtful?" Sam:"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange funiture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsLooksHardUseStuffCreativeGraceOkayPlantSensitiveAbstractThoughtfulSeatsLaughedDoubtfulShiverEmoFeng Shui Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size" -Tuck” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingUseHeardOkaySizeProfanity Author:Simone Elkeles
“Oh, pooh, you’re just like akri. No, Simmi, don’t be breathing fire around the flammable objects or small children. Except for that black plastic card that’s not really plastic. It some metal thing, but the Simi loves it cause it let her buy everything she want without limit. He never say no to Simi when she use it. Oh, hello, there, Fang. You okay? You looking kind of peaked or piqued or…? Oh, heck, the Simi can never keep those straight. (Simi)” WantKindChildrenUseCausesBlackFireObjectsLimitsOkayCardsBreathingMetalsPlasticHelloFangsSmall ChildBreathing Fire Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!” IfsKnowsWantLooksPersonsEnoughUseBodyCareSpeakStepsStrengthProtectAdvantageOkaySelf RespectEms Author:Queen Latifah
“Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.” IfsNeedsWellsUseJobsWallGunOkayScaredBlowNewspapersHolesHipsRanPlusTrapsMiceSpidersJanePatchesSlaughterJust SayingVishousPlasters Author:J.R. Ward
“Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.” LooksMayUseCareHalfMillionsOne DayOkayTake CareTitlesEmpiresCatchy Author:Nora Roberts
“Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.” MeanUseOkayReally Mean Book:Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel Source: Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel