“I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.” PeopleWayWantGivingStoriesUseThreeForceTheoryMeatPoundsEvaluate Author:Jonah Lehrer
“I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.” PeopleYearsIdeasThreeRoomsFourJokesWittyNo IdeaLaughedFour Years Author:Rebecca De Mornay
“As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.” PeopleThinkingGivingSometimesHardBigsArtistThreeOpportunityRoomsMinutesHopefullyMealsShowersImpressDressingsSuitableDressing RoomsNew Artists Author:David Nail
“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” PeopleYearsHomeSchoolPastThreeGoneGenerationsModernReadyCooksMealsRelevantModern LifeOver The PastHome LifeThree GenerationsProcessed FoodTakeaways Author:Jamie Oliver
“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindLittlesTwoHelpingKidsSchoolThreeHoursTeachingChairsVillageLittle KidAthensNiger Author:Christine Lagarde
“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?” PeopleLittlesTwoWarKidsThreeBitsParentMemoriesPoorWifeThousandLittle BitDiedSoldierZeroEntitledPoor PeopleGround Zero Author:Carl Paladino
“The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.” PeopleShouldPlaySongThreeIssuesMaterialsAlbumsRamones Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantShowsAbleThreePsychologyChangedProductsWasteResearchAskingCustomersPlentyFeaturesBehaveWasting Time Author:Eric Ries
“The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.” PeopleStatesThreeMillionsFiveDollarsSouthern Author:John Henninger Reagan
“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksThreeAbilityFourHavensConsumersOnlineFour Years Author:Stuart Rose
“People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMatterHardFactsRunningThreeCan DoCasesEconomyPlansOfficeOilMisleadGlobal EconomyGasolineBumperStickerBumper StickerRunning For OfficeGasoline Prices Author:Ken Salazar
“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryThreeLeftNationsVisionPovertyWonderfulBrokenDevelopmentEconomicsThirdsAidsCyclesMassiveCategoriesDividedTrappedRescueHelplessDominantViciousProsperousTaxpayersOrthodoxyThird WorldHeartlessThird World CountriesForeign AidVicious CyclesCycle Of Poverty Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.” PeopleWritingTryingChildrenBookHardThreeFourAdultsAcceptedException Author:R. L. Stine
“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.” PeopleGivingWritingKindRealAbleSongThreeDrawsPopsBrilliantChordsGreat PeoplePop Song Author:Regina Spektor
“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.” PeopleRememberUsedHateThreeBeliefPathSuccessfulDependsEnvyThree ThingsAmnesia Author:Jedediah Bila