“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.” PeopleIfsDoeCommunityEffortProduceBenefitsCreatingTradePropertyRewardsMutualFree MarketIncentivesPrivate PropertySurplusMutual Benefit Author:John Stossel
“People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentCertainSpeakBrainProduceTypeGeniusIllnessMental IllnessDifferent WaysRelatedDifferent KindsWay Of ThinkingWiring Author:H. A. Berlin
“It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people-which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.” PeopleNeedsShouldHelpingChristianJesusChristChurchGroupsStyleProduceWorshipJesus ChristMusicalWelcomeFollowersDiverseDiscipleTrue WorshipWorship MusicMusical Style Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.” PeopleActionProcessResultsPowerfulProduceOrganizationEngagedMechanismExceptionalGreat Organizations Author:James C. Collins
“Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness.” PeopleWellsCharacterHeavenAttitudeChangedProduceWorshipHolinessAccomplishedTransformedClosenessSupernatural Powers Author:Max Anders
“Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.” PeopleIfsWealthProduceTradeProductionsGoodsWealthyGoods And Services Author:Sheldon Richman
“The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.” PeopleWantShowsMinutesProduceClothesTemptedRunway Author:Michael Kors
“I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsPlayStepsFiveFourProduceFirst Steps Author:Jean Kerr
“If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsWarCountrySometimesStatesNationsTalkingProduceYears AgoGreekHistorianTriggersMixingGreat Society Author:Philippe Falardeau
“After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.” PeopleWorldWarCitiesProducePaidMovedWar Of The WorldsAbandonedWorld War IiWorld War IVolume1960sVineyardsChianti Author:Joe Bastianich
“Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.” PeopleProduceDirectorsAppreciateDirectAskingProducersOfferingAsking QuestionsOsmosis Author:Malik Yoba
“I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHas BeensImportantWantedChallengesRecordsProduceOppositesRemainsExcuseAssetsMentalitySanctions Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsMadeBookShowsMagicProduceTaughtShow Business Author:Liberace
“There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.” PeopleIfsWayArtLawBeliefTermFiveFourProduceConformityShut UpOrganize Author:Jane Smiley
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.” PeopleWantWholeGovernmentPoliticalEffortCompanyPolicyProducePicksCompetitionProtectionWinnerEnterpriseGoodsLoserArenaOpposingFree EnterpriseSubsidiesGoods And ServicesWinner And Loser Author:Charles Koch
“When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.” PeopleMadeSometimesMatterPlayRememberEasySoundResponsibilityRecordsProduceNo Matter WhatGood ThingsGuitarLike MePlaying Guitar Author:Robin Guthrie
“I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.” PeopleHomeDreamGenerationsProducePursueFlightAstronautBack Home Author:Mark Shuttleworth
“This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.” PeopleShouldMayCountryDealsQualityAchieveProduceIndustryIdealsShould HaveProfitOur CountryMotivatedQuestsQuality Of LifeUsefulnessIdeal Society Author:Benjamin Spock
“Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.” PeopleSelfHandsIndividualProgressTalentProduceDignityProsperityCommunismElitesManipulateDistinctive Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.” PeopleWayStoriesShowsFormTermChallengesImpossibleProduceStrangeExcitingTheaterMethodMusicalCaughtThese DaysCaught UpMusical Theater Author:Nick Blaemire
“There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.” PeopleMenCountryAmericaBlackMillionsMediaProduceHonorImportanceGravesHatedAcknowledgeBlack PeopleAncestorBlack WomenWombFertilityAfrican Women Author:Kola Boof
“I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindMadeResultsProduceToughAccountabilityTough Times Author:Carly Fiorina
“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.” PeopleThinkingHardWould BeRoomsPlayerProduceTvsFilledPhonesScreensTeenagerDistractionAdolescenceDvds Author:Adrian Tomine
“To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.” PeopleYoungIdentityProducePigsGuineaGuinea Pigs Author:Junot Diaz
“Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.” PeopleSaidWantedHouseDifficultLinesMillionsIssuesProduceShadowBillsBottomConservativeSolveImmigrationCompromiseReformControlledSenateBottom LineCruzImmigration Reform Author:Marco Rubio
“I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeBigsFilmDealsComedyProduceDeserveCreditFilmmakerAdamEntertainingNominationsScreenwritingGreat FilmBest Film Author:Bun B
“I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.” PeopleStillsEnoughRecordsProduceCopiesSavvy Author:Jeff Tweedy
“I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.” PeopleTryingI CanCountryWholeNumbersMillionsRocksStyleProduceAlbumsRock And RollSalsa Author:Paul Reubens
“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsLongHomeAbleChallengesDesignProduceRevolutionFirst TimeYears AgoMarchPublishingPublicationDemocratizationMacintoshDesktopNewslettersDesktop Publishing Author:Khoi Vinh
“We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.” PeopleNeedsTryingAbleTechnologyProduceAmountFuelCracked Author:Richard Branson
“When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.” PeopleHas BeensPoliticalFatherClassProduceSenateGrandfatherMy GrandfatherCabinets Author:Gore Vidal
“A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."” PeopleLongFactsBigsAsksStarsWeekProduceSixCreditShootingFadsPreps Author:Charlize Theron
“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.” PeopleHumansArtUseHomeEarthSpiritualCausesProcessWaterNaturalBrainPracticeMillionsSunProduceFlowerPerspectiveLessonsOffersProjectsGardenPlantSmellGenuineSoilBiologyAdmirationChemistryPassagesGardeningEcologyOngoingParticipatingImpartHuman BrainGeologySpiritual PracticePassage Of TimePharmacyBrain PowerMeteorologyArt Projects Author:Jim Nollman
“Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.” PeopleShouldWaterAcceptingClearProduceCapacityFishesSoilEnlightenedTaoismSolitaryCropsPerfectionistManureImpurity Author:Zicheng Hong
“Because people love music, I feel it's my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said, If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that's something I'll do.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsDoeSaidResponsibilityProduceCompromiseMainstreamRoutesMusic Love Author:Jhene Aiko
“Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.” PeopleWorldTodayJobsAmericaSpaceInformationProduceInternetFindingsGood ThingsAccessOur SocietyDevicesNavigateAccess To InformationVirtual WorldInternet AccessJobs And Education Author:William E. Kennard
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidRealGovernmentJobsLeftResultsDealsBehindsEconomyStudentsProduceCollegeConcernDebtDeterminedIncomeRisingGood JobLeft BehindLeft OutDysfunctionGridlockAffordability Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCommonAirShareProduceWasteOceanStarvingEqualizer Author:Brett Dennen
“There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.” PeopleKindDifferentCultureAttitudeProducePoliceDifferent KindsRepressionFatalism Author:Vijay Prashad
“You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.” PeopleGivingUseHappensActingStruggleGreaterSeeingMovementProduceNeededBiggerTerrorDeedsThings HappenPropagandaSectionsAnarchismDoseStrands Author:Vijay Prashad
“One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?” PeopleDifferentLeftBehindsOne ThingProduceTypeOutcomesGlobalizationThings ChangeLeft Behind Author:Tony Blair
“Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS's message is true and real.” PeopleDoeRealCasesProduceMessagesTerroristFranceNeighborhoodIsisDisenfranchised Author:Michael Leiter
“It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.” PeopleWorldStillsImportantTodayCultureCommonProduceTelevisionEntertainmentIconsFashionablePopular Culture Author:Ian O'Doherty
“We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.” PeopleGivingHeartWishInterestPowerfulProduce Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.” PeopleMightFunProduceMechanismDrowningGratificationNoveltyFamiliarity Author:Ian Bogost
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?” PeopleIfsThinkingSoundExistenceCompanyClassPathMiddleSecurityProduceComfortSucceedProgramConnectionsRemainsPreparedIllBrilliantHandleErasPostsMiddle ClassCynicalOccasionalRecessionsEruptionMbaLarge CompaniesGreat RecessionMba Programs Author:Lewis Schiff
“What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.” PeopleGivingMeanBookEarthCommunityProduceSourceDaughterThreatEdgesMy DaughterGlimpseNourishmentAnnaReconnecting Author:Frances Moore Lappé