“My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.” CountryAmericaChildhoodDevelopmentCommitmentProgramSignificantLatinLatin AmericaEarly Childhood Author:Shakira
“We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.” GivingYearsWould BeRunningTogetherDesireUnderstandingNaturalDecisionModernProductsHolyConversationProgramDancingBillionsCellsAspirationDecision MakingChemicalsFabricMaking LoveSelectionHighwaysParallelsFluidMoleculesNatural SelectionModern ScienceComing TogetherAlgorithmsNuminous Author:David Eagleman
“The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these events. And the left hemisphere works this way even in normal, intact brains. Hidden programs drive actions, and the left hemisphere makes justifications. This idea of retrospective storytelling suggests that we come to know our own attitudes and emotions, at least partially, by inferring them from observations of our own behavior.” KnowsWayIdeasBodyActionLeftEmotionBrainAttitudeEventsBehaviorNormalProgramStorytellingObservationNarrativeJustificationInterpreterHemisphereRetrospective Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.” IfsTryingFirstsLittlesDoeHardPastGamesBrainConsciousnessActivityProgramTasksPhasesExcluded Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“The [Steve Harvey] foundation started originally about the educational needs of children. But, as I got into it more and more, one of my main objectives became mentoring programs for young African American men because that's our problem in our community - it's the African American men.” MenNeedsChildrenProblemYoungCommunityProgramFoundationEducationalObjectivesAfrican AmericanOur CommunityMentoringHarvey Author:Steve Harvey
“The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.” YoungBoysPrinciplesTeachProgramFoundationManhoodMentoringHarvey Author:Steve Harvey
“We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.” YearsKindStandardsProgramJournalismCan NotProfessionalism Author:Jon Stewart
“If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.” PeopleIfsWantTryingMindShowsInterestingWatchesPerspectiveProgramComplexesIdeologyJournalismUrgentPrisms Author:Jon Stewart
“As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.” YearsMeanPersonsHas BeensFactsLastsPoliticalDealsHonestPolicyRevolutionCallingConcernedProgramGood ThingsSurpriseVery GoodSocialismDecentLiberalismSpectrumRestorationNew DealHonest PersonPolitical SpectrumPolitical Revolution Author:Noam Chomsky
“Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.” PeopleWorldTryingIdeasReasonTogetherFightingClassSupportRightsEffectsDangerousPolicyProgramOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsWorkersWorking ClassGreeceGet TogetherInitiateReferendumsWorkers Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would permit democracy in the Middle East, and for a very simple reason. Just take a look at polls of Arab public opinion. They exist. You can't find them in the press, but they exist from prestigious polling agencies. Released by major institutions. And what they show is that if there was democracy in the Middle East, the entire U.S. program for domination of the Middle East would be down the tube.” IfsLooksKindReasonShowsWould BeSimpleOpinionDemocracyMiddleMajorsProgramInstitutionsPressesEastAgencyPermitMiddle EastDominationPublic OpinionPollsTubesPollingPrestigiousDemocracy In The Middle East Author:Noam Chomsky
“Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.” IfsGivingLooksMeanCertainPolicyPositionProgramIntelligentInstitutionsFinancialBarackSubstanceOpportunistFinancial Institutions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.” ThinkingStatesTermMiddleMediaInformationAmountPerceptionWeaponsIntellectualProgramIncludingIsraelEastNuclearPrioritiesCombinationRegionsIranMainstreamMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsRelevanceRefusalArsenalFiltersMainstream MediaGeopoliticalOrientalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.” DifferentViolenceWillingProjectsProgramDestructionPracticalsPursueWickednessEliminating Author:Jaron Lanier
“I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.” PeopleTodaySoundLevelsTechnologyMilitaryStrangeMusicianSmartProgramArguingTechnologicalExceedBluntSmart PeopleSophisticationReally Smart Author:Jaron Lanier
“In Quebec, our goal isn't to reduce daycare service - a program the entire world envies - but to make it viable so tomorrow's families can keep benefiting from it.” WorldGoalTomorrowProgramEnvyQuebecDaycare Author:Philippe Couillard
“There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.” IfsTwoCoursesProgramCanadaTenorsQuebecReferendums Author:Jane Jacobs
“[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.” FirstsKindSchoolProgramJazzSeptemberManhattan Author:Jon Gordon
“[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.” BigsSchoolInvolvedBandProgramJazzGraduatesManhattanUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.” ArtSchoolProgramJazzPerformingJustinPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high school jazz program in Fresno. And Bob Athayde who runs a junior high program in Lafayette, California. And man, we walked into these schools and Paul Luchessi said, "Jon is the composer of Paradox." A hundred or something kids started to applaud. "What? You guys know that? I'm so blown away.” KnowsMenSaidRunningKidsSchoolGuyMetsHundredHigh SchoolProgramJazzCaliforniaParadoxComposerBobJuniorsEducatorJunior HighBlown AwayLafayette Author:Jon Gordon
“Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called? I think it was called the Cornish Potters Society, but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, they had meetings and we would go with Leach to these meetings and meet other potters, and they would have programs where they would discuss pottery and people would interchange ideas.” PeopleThinkingMadeIdeasGivenGroupsProgramMeetingsAvailableLondonNot SureIntroductionPottersPotteryInterchange Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.” WayLanguageChangedWeaponsProgramNuclearJapanAggressiveTestingKoreaNorth KoreaMissilesLikelihoodAccelerationBombastic Author:Michael Leiter
“If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.” IfsWorldWayHardVisionCreatingProgramPushingMapsTyrantsOutrageous Author:Alex Jones
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.” PeopleWantGivingWellsHardHelpingGovernmentWould BeGuySocialHard WorkHorrorProgramVoteDemocraticWorkersDrivingDishesWashingSocial WorkerGovernment ProgramsWashing DishesMinivans Author:Mark Helprin
“Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.” CountryHardStatesProblemActionUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceCircumstancesMajorsSolutionsProgramUniversalInternationalMake SenseCooperation Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction.” YearsKindAmericaSuccessfulEuropeProgramOppositesWesternDevelopingThrownLatinDestroyingPullingImperialismLatin AmericaDevastatedWestern Europe Author:Noam Chomsky
“In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.” PeopleWorldTryingKindStillsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesRichEnvironmentHappenedHappeningsProgramEnglandDestroyedPreservesSophisticatedIndigenousRich PeopleIndigenous PeopleRemnantsEnclosure Author:Noam Chomsky
“We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.” NeedsHumansOrderProcessSpaceNeededCapacityProgramOppositesTransformationIncrediblesAccessEnormousDimensionsExplorationAdequateDomainHuman HistoryAstronautSpace ExplorationStewards Author:Jean Houston
“I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.” PeopleSpeakStudentsProgramLive LifeDefiniteGrandparent Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.” PeopleWritingArtI CanDifferentHelpingStoriesShowsFilmInterestingComedySubjectsTvsProgramDebateVarietyHelp MeFilmmakingTv ShowsScreenplaysFormatTalk ShowsInteresting StoriesQuizQuiz Show Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.” PoliticalEconomicProduceProgramAlternativesHopelessnessNeoliberalism Author:David Graeber
“I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.” MeanMoralCuttingProgramCarefulSinnerBe CarefulVery StrongEntitlement Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I made this bad joke on Twitter saying, "I want to put in my first no-bid contract to train the Libyan army and police force." These counter-insurgency guys like to say, "We don't do the big F-16 or big boondoggle projects, we're not pulling this stuff because it's good business." But in fact it turns out there are tons of business opportunities involving counter-insurgency operations - and it's not like we're getting rid of the boondoggle programs either, we're just doing more of everything.” GuyOpportunityJokesProgramArmyPoliceTrainGood Business Author:Michael Hastings
“North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.” WorldSecurityMilitaryConsequenceProgramWinterSensibleNuclear WeaponsRejectedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.” PeopleHeartKindCareGuyCommunityNiceProgramCoachesBeing NiceKind Heart Author:John Calipari
“One question I often ask is why the church doesn't set aside funds specifically to seed new ideas. A lot of our money tends to go into existing, literally physical buildings, or existing parishes, programs, and schools, and we have nothing that is very explicitly dedicated toward new ventures of all kinds that would help parishes, help education, help catechesis.” KindHelpingSchoolChurchBuildingProgramAll KindsFundDedicated Author:Chris Lowney
“One of the things I'm most proud of that we've done here at WFMU - after various failed attempts - is to create a really healthy online community that feeds into the physical real-world community. It's spawned meet-ups in other cities. People even get married - they meet online from these chats that accompany every single program and are a really big part of what we do.” PeopleDoneCommunityProudHealthyMarriedProgramVariousOnline Author:Ken Freedman
“On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead.” DarkLeaderProgramWake UpEmployeeIrelandGoogleInnovative Author:Katrina Onstad
“We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.” EnergyTermSecurityMilitaryPolicyTaxesProgramIndependenceNational SecurityEntitlementFootprintLiability Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.” MeanArtSchoolActingTeacherProgramIntelligent Author:David Small
“The success of corporate mentorship programs developed by some of the Great Teams in business demonstrates how powerful this concept can be and what a difference it can make. As General Electric has shown, when a corporate culture includes mentorship, the end result is a dynamic learning environment with leaders constantly shaping leaders.” CulturePowerfulLeaderEnvironmentTeamProgramElectric Author:Don Yaeger
“I did work well with Hillary Clinton when she was my colleague in the Senate, and I certainly don't bear her any ill will. But when I listened carefully to her commencement speech, what I heard was a laundry list of very expensive new programs that our country simply cannot afford, and that would add to our already overwhelming $17 trillion debt. I'm also disturbed by the mismatch in her answers to the questions about her e-mail server and what the FBI Director Comey says that the FBI's investigation found.” CountryProgramClintonIllOverwhelmingFbiDisturbedLaundryCommencementServerCommencement Speech Author:Susan Collins
“I think a lot of people don't understand the makeup of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program population, of the food stamp population, 80 percent senior citizens, people with disabilities, children, and those who are actually in the work force working. The folks who are not - who are able-bodied, who are adults, who don't have dependents, there's a desire to make sure that they get to work and that they aren't basically gaming the system. But the reality is, they have a responsibility to either be involved in work or education, or they're limited in terms of their benefits.” PeopleThinkingChildrenRealityDesireTermResponsibilityProgramMakeupDisabilityNutritionSeniorSenior Citizen Author:Tom Vilsack
“Very few people know that my department is responsible for 1.2 million home loans since I have been secretary. That's 1.2 million families that are living in homes in rural America that would never have homeownership, but for the United States Department of Agriculture's programs. We have to do more of educating people about the partnership that does exist between rural America and their government.” PeopleHomeProgramResponsiblePartnershipSecretaryLoan Author:Tom Vilsack
“I was able to study 50 years of leadership theory and practicum in my master's program at Seton Hall, and it has provided the backbone of the knowledge we use every day. My undergraduate work was in journalism, and my early work as a newspaper reporter taught me how to research, write, and rewrite.” WritingStudyProgramJournalismBackbone Author:Adrian Gostick
“You cannot form a community of countries of different strength without a certain amount of equilibrium. That is reflected in, for example, the EU budget and the bailout programs. That is why there are net payers and net recipients in Europe. A community cannot exist if the stronger do not take responsibility for the weaker.” DifferentCountryCommunityResponsibilityProgramStrongerTaking ResponsibilityEquilibrium Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“The food stamp program is the largest piece of the Farm Bill, it's a massive amount of money, but not only has it been good for families that need it, but it's been fantastic for local economies.” EconomyProgramFantastic Author:Andrew Zimmern