“People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.” PeopleUseEnergyPositionProjectsVictimDestructiveCaptureGreySnakesDrains Author:Frederick Lenz
“I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.” WayFirstsUseGroupsCommunicationInternetProjectsResearchSystematic Author:Joshua Lederberg
“There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.” PeopleUseHandsBuddhismProjectsChakraShakti Author:Frederick Lenz
“Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.” WayLooksImportantUseCommonBrainObjectsProjectsWho You AreCommon Sense Book:The Woman I Wanted to Be Source: The Woman I Wanted to Be
“What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.” WantSaidIdeasUseWould BeJobsEasyCrazyComputerProjectsSellsCrazy Ideas Author:Jef Raskin
“When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.” GivingUseHappensTodayProjectsRefuseExcuseHookCompletingAccomplishing Something Author:Bob Proctor
“Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.” UseEarthEvilGreaterRiskProjectsPlanningIngenuityDoersEvil Doers Book:The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont Source: The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
“Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.” GivingUseGovernmentEnergyProjectsResourcesCleanClimate ChangeProductionsSpendingBudgetsFuelGasConsumptionFossilsScarceFossil FuelEmissionsGreenhousesSubsidiesClean EnergyGreenhouse Gases Author:Jose Angel Gurria
“With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.” PeopleMenI CanDifferentWholeUseShowsFilmAbilityPlayerTeamProjectsPassionateDifferent ThingsOne ManTeam Player Author:Ice Cube
“For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.” UseBlessingProjectsHops Author:Ryan Lewis
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.” GivingUsePoetryTurnsReadingLiteratureLanguageProcessPracticePoetReaderProjectsConceptsCapacityHealDivisionAccommodateHeal Itself Author:Don Paterson
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.” PeopleUseEvilLinesHabitProjectsMachinesPracticalsSavingAshamedLazyHelpfulCanvasVicious Author:Norman Rockwell
“Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.” GivingFirstsHas BeensCountryStatesUseSchoolNationsUnitedExampleProjectsAreasIndiaIncludingVariousWideTrialsVideoVillageAwardsPrisonerAsiaUnited NationsGovernanceMaximumElevenPublic ServicePacificGrievanceBroadbandGujaratIct Author:Narendra Modi
“What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.” WantGivingUseWatchesDangerProjectsSignificantVanityTemporaryMinorsPopularity Author:Danny Boyle
“I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsUseEarthAbilitySpaceMinutesProjectsEthicsDollarsVariousSpendingFlightWealthySpace Flight Author:Arthur Frommer
“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!” UseGovernmentVoiceCan DoStupidExampleInternetShapesProjectsSmartResearchDefenseAgencyMapsDisplayGoogleUnclesNavyCiaIphoneSurfNasaNot StupidGpsUncle SamSiriGoogle Maps Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.” NeedsUseLightGamesEnergySpaceVisionFireProduceProjectsInnovationOriginalsCleanAdequateApolloClean Energy Author:Jay Inslee
“Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.” PeopleUseGoalSpacePartyTeamRocksProjectsModelsStonesAccessSoccerRock N RollSixtySiteHippieAurasSpace BetweenDruidsHedonisticSoccer TeamStonehenge Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.” KindDifferentEnoughUseTodayCan DoMaterialsProjectsGlassesDifferent KindsSteelFlexible Author:Gottfried Bohm
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.” FeelsKindI CanPhilosophyUseHonestProjectsBrandsBeing Honest Author:Marco Brambilla
“I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.” I CanUseBigsWalksFocusParticularProjectsListsChecksOnlineMailDesksBlogsCalendarsMonitoringDesktopFolders Author:Bill Gates
“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.” I CanUseEyeGreaterSubjectsObjectsProduceProjectsCamerasPhotographerActiveImpressionLandscape Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs
“Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.” IfsWayUseFilmMy OwnProjectsRaisesGlassesFocusedMy WayLimitationShootingDocumentariesCeilingsGlass Ceiling Author:Ava DuVernay
“Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.” ThinkingGivingTryingWellsUseBigsNextProjectsI've LearnedMy TimeHolidayExhaustedTime To ThinkChunks Author:Wayne McGregor
“I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.” WayWritingYearsKindLongBookDifferentUseFiveSixProjectsYears AgoSentencesInvisibleEvolveParksSunsetDifferent KindsNew WaysBreakthroughExhilarating Author:Paul Auster
“We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.” PeopleIfsWayIdeasUseSidesDangerousBuildingProjectsCreatingToolsAnd LoveInvestingGreat IdeaYourself And Love Author:Biz Stone
“You do hear from people that the things that you have done or projects you have worked on have made an impact on people's lives. I think it is important to take that seriously and to recognise that you are being followed and watched by some degree in what you do and you should use that. It's a real blessing to be able to make an impact on people's lives and to use that for the bettering of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeImportantRealDoneUseAbleBlessingDegreesProjectsImpactRecognise Author:Bridgit Mendler
“I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasFactsStoriesUseProjectsMarriedPresses Author:John Krasinski
“I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.” UseTeachingProjectsStomachMicrophones Author:Gonjasufi
“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
“As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.” WayUseIndividualSocialCommunityPartySupportProgressShareAwarenessMediaBuildingProjectsBasesImpactSocial MediaOrganisation Author:David Batstone
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsUseDesireIndividualProjectsSomething NewBusinessmanSignatures Author:Frank Gehry
“I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.” ThinkingWantStoriesUseWantedProjectsStandardsCrossesMulticulturalismTropesPersonal Stories Author:Saya Woolfalk
“To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.” IdeasUseTechnologyProjects80sNew Technology Author:Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
“I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even with the [filters]. And God bless them! But to me, it's not a self-portrait, it's a reality project.” PeopleKnowsBelieveRealSelfUseRealityInformationProjectsBlessPortraitsGod BlessIphoneFiltersSelf Portrait Author:Alex Katz
“I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.” TryingStillsHardUseBlackLevelsFiguresPaintingSucceedProjectsHarderResponsibleCarefulPigment Author:Kerry James Marshall
“While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.” StillsUsePainSourceDevelopmentProjectsCoreKernelOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds
“The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.” KnowsWayFirstsKindMeanUseAsksOpportunitySocialEasyCompanySuccessfulCuttingCostProjectsInternalsStraightforwardEasy WayPruningTrimming Author:Reid Hoffman