“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.” PeopleNeedsDifferentHardLightFilmActorsDifficultSupportPositionColorHollywoodGreenProducersAfrican AmericanFilmmakerRelyEtcCohesionAmerican FilmGreen Lights Author:Paula Patton
“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.” WayFeelsHas BeensDifferentStagePositionSeekingDifferent WaysDragSecularMarginsPeripherySecular SocietyCenter Stage Author:Karen Armstrong
“Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.” PeopleDoeDifferentMatterCoursesSocialPerfectCommonDemocracySharePositionCitizensOrdinaryBackgroundsEncountersWhat MattersBumpsOrdinary LifeDifferent BackgroundsCommon Life Author:Michael Sandel
“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.” IfsTryingBelieveMeanDifferentFactsProblemTodayEarthFoundSeaLandPositionChangedRevolutionGrewElementsBasesClimateDon't BelieveAncientDogmaContinentsGeologyOrbitAxesRotationNorth Pole Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.” MenWorldHumansDifferentCharacterCertainHuman BeingsPositionGoodnessDirectRelationAverageIntuitionSensual Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938 Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.” KindMeanDifferentActionPoliticalUsedResultsPowerMilitaryPositionSourceWeaponsCapacityPoliceIncludingChosenDestroyedOpponentsRepressionOpposing Author:Gene Sharp
“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingLittlesI CanDifferentLightAbleBitsFocusSubjectsPositionAmountDadLittle BitPicksShiningCharityMy DadCreditCardsHeatCashCredit CardSpotlightDifferent DirectionsDeflecting Author:George Clooney
“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
“Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.” LooksDifferentPlayEasyMoralPositionPerspectiveMy FavoriteIncidentsArthurDifferent Perspective Author:David Bezmozgis
“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.” IfsShouldHumansStillsDifferentFactsWishConsciousnessEnvironmentInfluenceEconomicPositionDemandConstitutionMethodConstantDetermineExperimentsAtomsEconomistVaryLiableDifferent TimesHuman ConsciousnessGravitationElasticity Author:Arthur Cecil Pigou
“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.” IfsShouldHas BeensDifferentHandsResultsViewsTakenPositionRedDestructionShould HaveArmyCampaignsFighterCatastropheCould Have BeenAvoidedRed Army Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky
“I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveImportantDifferentHumorPoliticalCultureI BelieveDifficultResponsibilityMissingPositionBabyMomOughtHopefullyAlternativesFirmChoresPolitical HumorCondomWedlock Author:George W. Bush
“We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsKindDifferentWarFightingStepsEnemyPositionBorders Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.” DifferentHomeHouseClassNicePositionOddWealthyRealisingLooking BackWorking ClassTerrace Author:Mark Haddon
“I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.” FeelsDifferentProblemSchoolChallengesTeamPositionFootballEvolveHockeyFeel BetterBattingHockey Team Author:Rahul Dravid
“I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.” ThinkingMenWorldDifferentAsksPositionMen And WomenShockingSingle WomenPosition Of Power Author:Salma Hayek
“True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.” KnowsDifferentMovingPositionPrepared Author:Curtis Jackson
“There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.” PeopleDifferentReasonPositionAuthorityDifferent ThingsRegulationDominationRules And Regulations Author:James Cromwell
“I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentStoriesEnjoyUnderstandingViewsPositionTelevisionPerspectiveScaryPoint Of ViewPushingDisserviceDifferent Points Of ViewUnderstanding Things Author:Morgan Spurlock
“Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.” WayDifferentRunningWantedPlayerPositionFootballAspectThreatEmulatePioneeringRunning Back Author:Tiki Barber
“If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.” IfsWantNeedsGivingDifferentPlayHelpingGamesHurtTeamPositionDays Off Author:Albert Pujols
“Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.” TryingChildrenLittlesDifferentPlayTodaySocialParentResultsDealsTeacherPlayerSharePositionTelevisionMetsAuthorityTasksDoctorsWorkersContraryProducersScoreMultitudesOrchestraHelplessnessInferiorityConductorSocial WorkerMaestro Author:Kenneth Keniston
“We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.” IfsDifferentRealEndsPoliticalPositionCompetitionRussiaIdeologicalAuthoritarianismPluralism Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.” IfsI CanDifferentReasonFilmTurnsUnderstandingMy OwnCommonMoralPositionProjectsDeserveScoreSchedules Author:John Keltonic
“I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position” KnowsWantDifferentLevelsClearPositionDirectorsClubsManagersOperationsExecutivesHostWaitressNightclubsHostessesVip Author:Rachel Uchitel
“No matter what. I like to be different. Its not easy to work the way we want, because we have to deal with a lot of judgmental people, but we've always been in that position, so its nothing we cannot handle.” PeopleWayWantDifferentMatterEasyDealsPositionNo Matter WhatHandleJudgmentalJudgmental People Author:Oliviero Toscani
“This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.” PeopleNeedsKindMayDifferentSpiritualFormWonderPrinciplesEconomyFocusEconomicSecurityPositionCrisisSellsHungerCaringTyrannyIntenseIntimateOur SocietyLastingEthicalTyrantsDifferent KindsSolidaritySensitivityManipulateMarketplaceIntimate RelationshipsMoney And PowerLasting FriendshipEconomic Security Author:Michael Lerner
“Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWholeCrazyPositionAuthorityBunchRemoveDifferent Peoples Author:David Hyde Pierce
“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.” IfsWayTryingMindFirstsMeanDoeI CanDifferentProblemBodyMovingAcceptingHavensPositionAcceptanceKeysPerformancesSolveQuittingAriseDifferent WaysSubtleRelaxationRelaxedSequenceOpen MindKeep An Open MindPlacementPeak Performance Author:Lynn Hill
“I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos.” PeopleKnowsLittlesDifferentHardWantedSchoolFilmYoungNamesStuffNew YorkPositionGrewProjectsLuckMovedWingsVideoFilmmakerMentorRhymeFilm SchoolJamaicaAmazing People Author:Storm Saulter
“One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.” PeopleDifferentCountryWholePoliticalSocialOne ThingConditionsPositionWillingTraditionProtectionBackgroundsFranceOther CountriesSolidarity Author:Francois Hollande
“Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.” LooksDifferentVoiceViewsPositionReadyConflictSolutionsCompromisePeacefulSensibleDifferent Views Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“At a certain point, you cannot handle everything yourself; having a team around you is very important. To have a strong team of people in which you can rely and people that you've been working with for years. I relate it to soccer - you have different positions and you have to bring in the right person at the right position.” PeopleYearsPersonsImportantDifferentCertainStrongTeamPositionHandleRelateSoccerRelyRight Person Author:Ricardo Guadalupe
“It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.” PeopleThinkingWantDifferentDoneLastsRememberPositionCapableExpectationsRemember YouRemembers You Author:Dominic Cooper
“Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.” TryingLittlesDifferentSometimesNextChallengesChancePositionExcitingVulnerableCritiqueEnvelopesThe Next One Author:Priyanka Chopra
“To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.” FirstsIdeasDifferentSelfReasonBigsLawGuyInterestingPositionWillingJudgingDisciplineFellowsWaveLawyerDevelopingGrandfatherVeteranHarvardSelf EducationBig Ideas Author:Charlie Munger
“There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.” KnowsWantNeedsYearsDifferentWould BeTodayJobsResultsCompanyRolesTeamPositionNormalComfortableYears AgoHumbleEvolveNew ThingsLearning NewLearning New Things Author:Sophia Amoruso
“The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.” ThinkingWellsLongI CanDifferentCountryPoliticalChurchPrinciplesClearFailingCenturyPositionDevelopmentCatholicStructureRussiaSuitsGermanyHierarchyMonarchyCatholic ChurchDifferent Countries Author:Hermann Goring
“The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.” ThinkingMenFeelsMeanDifferentEndsEnoughFactsUseFeelingsPastUniverseIndividualConsciousnessPositionHe ManGeniusEgoConsciousPerceiveCentreNeighbourMeans To An End Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.” LittlesPersonsDifferentYoungNextActorsBitsActingExistenceWatchesExamplePositionSceneLittle BitIllusionShotsCamerasDepthFlatsStationsShrinksYoung Actors Author:Ang Lee
“He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)” PeopleWayHas BeensDifferentHandsMightWantedMovingTurnsDifficultPositionArmsSittingStandingWindowDifferent WaysMight Have BeenDifferent PeoplesPillow Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.” TryingI CanDifferentSometimesLeftMiddlePositionPreparedHopefullyGet BetterUsaThrownBe Prepared Author:Freddy Adu
“I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.” DifferentCountryLightHouseWhiteFictionGroupsStreetsPositionGayScience FictionComplainingFiction WritersHumanisticOakland Author:Ishmael Reed
“You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before.” TryingDifferentMovingFallPositionStudents Author:Louise Wilson
“If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.” IfsWayWritingDifferentSimplePositionOrdinaryDeserveDay To DayHonoredGood WritersLikelihoodCraftsmanOrdinary Days Author:Rod Serling
“I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.” WantDifferentPresidentPositionBandwagon Author:Carl Hart
“I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.” DifferentShowsTodayArtistOpportunityAudiencePositionMusicianBuiltBobDylan Author:Ben Sollee
“I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities.” WellsDifferentPlayHelpingHandsEyeFeetPositionFootballBasketballHeightCatchingDrillsVelocityCoordinationRacquetball Author:Antonio Cromartie
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.” ThinkingWorldFeelsLooksDifferentCharacterUniverseForceNumbersNiceCreationPositionStormWideComicFascinatingFoxesCablesReally Nice Author:Mark Millar