“The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.” GivingBelieveGovernmentMightForceProjectsDon't BelieveImmoral Author:Randall Terry
“I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsFeelingsBodyMightSocialStuffRelationshipGroupsAcceptanceProjectsFingersThings To DoNormManlySocial NormsSocial Acceptance Book:Trouble (poetry, contemporary) Source: Trouble (poetry, contemporary)
“The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.” IfsWorldHas BeensMightFormSuccessfulProjectsManagementActiveTime ManagementTidesMight Have BeenImpatienceUnfinishedUnfinished Business Book:All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world Source: All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world
“If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.” PeopleIfsDoeRealStoriesMightCoursesSimpleNumbersProjectsMassConvincedProofTechniqueAstronomyFlyingStorytellingAliensNarrativeExplanationSuspectsLinkedTriggersLarge NumbersPersuasiveAbductionAlien Abduction Author:Bryan Appleyard
“Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.” WorldFeelsMightGriefJourneyProjectsMajorsConfusionMapsHopelessTerritoryTransitionHelplessHallmarkOuter Worlds Author:Anne Grant
“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.” IfsWayHumansMightFormCasesModernProjectsStructureAvailableDrivenAgentsMake SenseDesperateImaginativeTheoreticalOrientationModern SocietyCompatible Author:Raymond Geuss
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” HumansMightLiteratureVirtueProjectsPrisonPracticalsSoilPortionsFoundersSiteVirginsUtopiaColonyCemeteryUtopianVirtue And Happiness Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.” WantSometimesMightCan DoPleaseProveAnxietyProjectsPassionateStudiosYou Can Do It Author:Justin Lin
“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.” YearsLongHas BeensGovernmentMightPastCasesIssuesTakenFiveBuildingProjectsLong TimeSevenAverageAcceptedApprovalSeven YearsFunding Author:I. M. Pei
“One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.” MightDifficultChanceCuttingInvolvedProjectsAccomplishUncertaintyMidstInvolvement Author:Todd May
“I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.” ThinkingIdeasMightArtistProcessCreativeGroupsProjectsDemocraticSwimSoloDemocratic ProcessCreative FreedomSink Or Swim Author:Myka 9
“We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready.” WantKindDifferentMightCompanyReadyDevelopmentProjectsSpendingNot ReadyRamp Author:Susan Downey
“While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.” MindPersonsMightEnergyGoalSourceWasteProjectsDeterminationDown AndGreenIllDespiteReasonableEnterpriseThrowingDozenMind BlowingEnergy SourcesGreen Energy Author:David Limbaugh
“We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsMightHurtKnownTelevisionNormalProjectsAvailableConnectedHungryIntimacyEaseSubstitutesShoppingClosestConsumptionPornographySolaceSustenanceConspicuous Consumption Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.” PeopleWayWellsMatterHandsMightJobsActorsStuffWaitingMy OwnRolesProjectsCreatingDecidedMercyHorribleMy WayWay To Live Author:Catherine Bell
“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.” MenHas BeensBookHardBigsMightYoungGuyBlackWhiteFiguresDirectorsProjectsStandardsPraiseSeriesFakeLos AngelesSexismYoung WomenMight Have BeenWireAdvancementRiceGhettoDouble StandardWhite GuysDowning Author:Ishmael Reed
“I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected to the publishing world as they should be, and I have the energy and the enthusiasm to sort of gather and promote people, so I've always thought someday I might embark on a big project like that.” PeopleWorldShouldDreamBigsMightEnergyKnownForeverProjectsPressesConnectedEnthusiasmSomedayPublishingGreat Writers Author:Michelle Tea
“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.” NeedsFeelsWritingLongBookDoneWholeMightOrderForgetNovelProjectsLong TimeQuestioning Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingKindLittlesI CanBookDifferentBigsSeemsMightArtistDarkComfortableProjectsStartingMindsetBoredomThinkerDifferent KindsAvenuesNew BooksNew ProjectsBig Book Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other projects with people who might see you and recommend for other projects and vice versa.” PeopleI CanMightProjectsMouthsVicesVice VersaWord Of Mouth Author:Michelle Glick
“I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, and I might experiment with it in the future, but I'm not a fan of just random assemblages of songs at the moment.” MomentsMightSongFansProjectsExperimentsZoneAssemblage Author:Bradford Cox
“John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!” ThinkingWantWellsMadeMightJoySongFunSpecialProjectsDearProducersCaptureDevotedSongwritersReunionDear Friend Author:Olivia Newton-John
“One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!” LongBigsMightWorryBecomingProjectsListsI RealizedCooksFortyDroppingRelievedStop WorryingMilestoneSkiers Author:Arianna Huffington
“My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.” MightAnswersCasesProjectsCourt Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.” PeopleThinkingWantCountryReasonMightPoorTalkingPovertyRichTenProjectsIdealsDollarsInequalityPoor People Author:Jay-Z
“When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.” IfsShowsMightWonderfulTelevisionProjectsMediumsTelevision Shows Author:Justin Hartley
“It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.” TryingLongMightTogetherEasyCasesCreativeProjectsLong TimeDo The Best Author:Kate Bush
“I don't feel qualified to comment on whether or not the internet has damaged collaboration and creativity. That is not my experience... my experience is that I have had access to meeting people online that I might otherwise not have met, gone on to meet them in real life and collaborated on fun projects.” PeopleFeelsRealMightFunCreativityGoneInternetMetsProjectsMeetingsAccessReal LifeOnlineCommentCollaborationQualified Author:Horace Panter
“The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.” PeopleWayBelieveMightWishSexWaterCitiesSuccessfulEffectsProjectsTownsPopulationConvincedLocalsFortunateSmall TownFarmingStarvingTransportRailSuburbiaWater Power Author:James Howard Kunstler
“The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to make people feel like participants in a common project of autonomous law-giving. Much more political accountability, much more participation. That didn't happen, I think, because the movers and shakers were more concerned with economic union than political union.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsMightHappensLawPoliticalNationsCommonNumbersEconomicProjectsConcernedUnionsAccountabilityParticipationParticipantsAutonomousShakersMovers And Shakers Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to do with the mergers and buyouts and the corporations being more in control of the purse strings. We find that the projects have to come with higher expectations rather than books that just should be published. That's disturbing because we might find fewer and fewer children's books by African Americans or with black cultural themes.” ShouldChildrenBookMightCultureSpeakBlackStruggleMaterialsHigherProjectsExpectationsAfrican AmericanNarrativeCorporationsThemeStringsFewerDisturbingPursesChildren's BooksMergersBlack Culture Author:Jerry Pinkney