“We're in a classic demand-shortfall recession. There aren't enough jobs because total spending is too low. Consumers won't lead the way because they're busy paying down debt and are fearful they'll lose their jobs, if they haven't already. Businesses, which are currently sitting on mountains of cash, won't spend either, because they already have sufficient capacity to produce more than people are willing to buy.” PeopleIfsWayEnoughJobsLosesHavensProduceWillingDemandMountainLowsSittingCapacityBusyDebtSpendingConsumersClassicSufficientCashFearfulRecessions Author:Robert H. Frank
“A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.” ImportantHelpingHandsProduceKeysHabitDisciplineAreasImpactAbsenceReactionsChainsFaithfulOutcomesTraitsKeystonesChain ReactionsPositive Outcome Author:Craig Groeschel
“Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.” PeopleThinkingMayCreativeProduceBunchRobotsNobelImprovisationEducation SystemIlliterate Author:John Medina
“The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.” ResultsCompanyProduceHugeWorkersCustomersEngagedEngagingStaggeringCoworker Author:Bill Capodagli
“Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.” WritingAbilityWorryProduceIllNervesSubconsciousRatiosIll Health Author:Ernest Hemingway
“We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.” TermEnvironmentLandExampleProduceMaterialsActivityForestsMediumsExploitsRaw MaterialsMinerals Author:Wangari Maathai
“For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?” PeopleIfsWantNeedsGovernmentLandExampleProduceRiversAgricultureKenyaLeaseDeltaQatar Author:Wangari Maathai
“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.” PeopleHelpingGovernmentJobsCertainWealthPayQualityCompanyExampleProduceHugeAmountTaxesAreasLocalsInvestorsQuality Of LifeKenyaPineapples Author:Wangari Maathai
“So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?” KnowsMayHappensProduceGmosMaize Author:Wangari Maathai
“Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.” SometimesMightEvilPrinciplesGreaterProduceGreater Good Author:Greg Koukl
“That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.” WorldArtSeemsLiteratureNaturalLove IsEffortStruggleProduceConflictObviousCinemaWorks Of ArtWorthwhileConquestWorld Literature Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.” ProduceOutcomes Author:Donald Trump
“I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.” PeopleIfsThinkingOrderInterestingProduceGood ThingsArguingBoundariesTensionSomething Interesting Author:Felicity Jones
“Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"” PeopleCountryHalfMillionsLandProduceIndiaMadDollarsCelebrateRebellionGenocideHauntingExquisiteBillionaireCastesLynchingCaste SystemTextiles Author:Arundhati Roy
“Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.” BigsFictionObjectsProducePeriodsShotsEarsScience FictionBoxesInventionCodeDnaGalaxyCrackedPandoraChimeraPandora's Box Author:Margaret Atwood
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.” WantMadeFilmProduceTelevisionTheaterMost AmazingAmazing Music Author:Alicia Keys
“In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.” FoundFictionProduceDullControlled Author:George Saunders
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“I found that the best way to go about [ Black men ] is to produce better men. And I think if we get them at a younger age, and start teaching these young brothers the principles of manhood: That real men go to work everyday; Real men honor God; Real men respect and adore women - that's what real men do.” IfsThinkingMenWayRealAgeYoungFoundBlackPrinciplesTeachingProduceBrotherHonorEverydayBest WayAdoreManhoodReal MenBetter ManYoung Brother Author:Steve Harvey
“What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.” KindPayProduceNotionProtectionFamiliarCredibilityMafia Author:Noam Chomsky
“Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.” ThinkingIssuesMiddleMediaProduceWeaponsPercentIsraelCriticalEastStoresNuclearChemicalsConventionsMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsSyriaIsraeliDeterrentChemical Weapons Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.” IfsWishGrowthPerfectCuttingProduceFlowerRoseBud Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.” ThinkingFirstsLooksKindDifferentWholeShowsTermLevelsResultsEconomicStudentsProduceReturnRight NowAchievementToughFundamentalsImpactDollarsInvestmentSpendingFlawsMore MoneyLots Of MoneyFixingPositive ImpactReturn On InvestmentStudent AchievementTough Economic Times Author:Michelle Rhee
“Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.” JobsWorryProduceProudGood JobGreat WorkChatter Author:Soledad O'Brien
“How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.” MadeBigsHouseRoomsQualityCompanyProduceReturnOriginalsReputationBrandsFirmVentureClevernessUnicornLimousines Author:Kevin Kinsella
“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.” PeopleMeanLittlesCountryJobsYoungEffortHalfImagineLandPolicyProduceSourceResourcesUnionsOilSavedDustGoodsInflationAdjustmentEuropean UnionOlivesEuropean CountriesGoods And ServicesGreat EffortOlive Oil Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.” ImportantTakenProduceImportant ThingsPlantCapitalistCuba Author:Che Guevara
“We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.” BelieveStillsConditionsCarStupidProduceBehaviorProductionsWork OutInstanceDisappointedTiedElectricBelieve In MeCommerceRollingChasingCompelledPromotingMotorCropsTransportationPhantomsRailroadsBailGeneral MotorsWalmartElectric CarGenetically ModifiedEthanolAgribusiness Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.” MindBelieveHumansProblemFantasyEffectsProduceEvolutionMachinesArguingHuman MindRaysElectricMaintainingSingularityGridsHuman EvolutionSynthetic Author:James Howard Kunstler
“My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.” KnowsTwoProducePaintingSkillsHighestPassagesCaliberTruth And Beauty Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.” PathHavensChangedProducePopsPop MusicI Haven't Changed Author:Raphael Saadiq
“CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.” NeedsSocialGrowthResponsibilityProduceProfitSustainabilityCeoSocial ResponsibilityFinancingContinuous Growth Author:Philip Kotler
“That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix [MacKenzie] and I actually began to produce a line of textiles, which had silk-screen patterns on them.” ProcessLinesClassProduceArmyPatternsScreensGraphicInstituteSilkTextiles Author:Warren MacKenzie
“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.” IfsLittlesDoneWantedFormStuffBitsPiecesFrontsProducePaperLittle BitDrawingPocketsPotPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.” ThinkingFirstsLooksPersonsMadeTodayLevelsQualityAchieveProducePercentAwfulPotRichnessElementalsPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.” PeopleWorldProduceGlobalizationDetroitBangladeshSpecializationIndustrializationStandardization Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.” IfsThinkingWantSometimesHardProduceExpectationsNew Music Author:G-Dragon
“I wanna show you I can out-rap your favorite rappers. I wanna show you I can out-produce your favorite producers. So I'm constantly getting better and I understand that there's always room for growth, especially in quality, sonic quality.” I CanShowsGrowthRoomsQualityProduceRapProducersGet BetterRapperYour Favorite Author:J. Cole
“In Nigeria, there is energy, whether it is Lagos, which is sheer anarchy, but it is not lethargic. It is strong, even aggressive and if that energy could be directed to work it will produce really enormous results.” IfsEnergyStrongResultsProduceEnormousWorking ItAnarchyAggressiveSheerNigeriaLethargic Author:Chinua Achebe
“You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsLooksChristianProduceHappeningsAthleteCraftsObserving Author:LeCrae
“We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.” MeanDifferencesProduceConflictAreasUnionsRussiaCooperationSovietSoviet Union Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I have a production company because this is the only job I know and this is the only career I have and the only industry I've ever worked in and the only contacts I have. It's like why wouldn't I produce?” KnowsJobsCompanyCareersProduceIndustryProductionsContact Author:Elizabeth Banks
“Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't want to challenge their readers; they want to produce exactly what their reader expects them to produce. I'm not like that.” WantMindKindChallengesProduceReader Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce universal writing, you run the risk of losing your local knowledge. Your views are so universalist that the street aspect disappears.” IfsWantWritingRunningViewsRiskStreetsProduceLosingUnderstoodAspectUniversalIntentionDisappearLocalsReadership Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingPlayHelpingFeelingsLanguageSoundNovelEffectsProduceEarsSentencesSensualOddsUnfortunateGorgeousConsonantsSound Effects Author:Tony Kushner
“Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.” PoliticalEconomicProduceProgramAlternativesHopelessnessNeoliberalism Author:David Graeber
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” MenMotivationalSpiritualSpiritualityPoliticsNationsPlansProduceCivilizationBlack HistoryModern CivilizationSpiritual Death Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.” TryingLongMovingNamesDifferencesKnownSeaProduceChineseBassMarketersPeddlerChileans Author:Jeffrey Kluger