“Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.” Music IsRely Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.” TryingDifferentIllusionRely Author:Tyler Perry
“I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.” StrongHonorIndependenceRelyVery Strong Author:Felicity Jones
“At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.” MenAgeWeakRelyHelpless Author:Christina Aguilera
“We can't rely - or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.” CountryPersonalityRelySingle Person Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.” CultureInfluenceMediaTelevisionTheoryRelyPresidencyAnalystsPostman Author:Val Kilmer
“Many leaders rely on confidence, the ability to make timely decisions, and hold themselves and others accountable. But some of these leaders have not yet developed resonance, the ability to read the room, understand and appreciate the thoughts and emotions of others.” AbilityDecisionEmotionLeaderAppreciateRelyMaking Time Author:Suzanne Bates
“President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.” SecurityPromiseRelySeniorEntitlementMedicare Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Trump is a partner for us who cannot be easily categorized. Putting it in the noblest way possible, his understanding of politics is a little different from ours here in Europe. The way he acts forces us Europeans to take on a new responsibility. We are not standing with our backs up against the wall, but, to put it as pithily as the German chancellor has: We can no longer rely on the U.S. the way we could in the past.” DifferentPastUnderstandingResponsibilityWallRely Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump, think that everything is a disaster. The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. It's a point of fact that we're doing extremely well.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingDisasterRely Author:Freeman Dyson
“Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.” PeopleSecurityRelyRetirementOver 50 Author:Teresa Ghilarducci
“It's always been government's role to protect the security of the nation. And cyber-attacks is a security issue, from our perspective. And it's a security issue of particular concern with respect to the nation's core critical infrastructure, the infrastructure everyone relies on, the energy sector, the telecommunications sector, the banking sector.” EnergySecurityPerspectiveProtectConcernRely Author:Janet Napolitano
“Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.” ThinkingRelyCritical Thinking Author:Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
“When the president Donald Trump has leaked out what happens in his phone calls, and he's really taking on some of our dearest allies and partners around the world, people don't know what to expect and whether they can rely on the United States anymore.” PeopleWorldPresidentRely Author:Wendy Sherman
“Someone asked me when it was that I felt confident enough in my writing that I could rely on it as a career. The truth is, I never have. I'm always on the hunt for second, third, or fourth careers. Private detective and cinematographer were previous career choices, but now that I'm older I think I'd be a good portrait painter, rug merchant, or florist.” ThinkingWritingEnoughChoicesTruth IsPainterRely Author:Christopher Bollen
“Ratings are king and the money keeps flowing, and partisanship is so strong today that people rely on a few sources absolutely instead of thinking critically. So even being a cheerleader for a gameshow-host president with no respect for the rule of law or America's reputation in the world may not be a career-ending move.” PeopleThinkingWorldTodayMovingStrongPresidentReputationRelyRule Of LawNo RespectCheerleader Author:Garry Kasparov
“The whole point of making a film is to tell a story. That seems to be forgotten. Many films today just rely on special effects and they have an explosion every five minutes. Who needs it? It's rather repetitious.” TodayFilmSpecialForgottenRely Author:Ray Harryhausen
“Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.” ThinkingWritingTryingMindRely Author:David Walliams
“It's easier to greenlight your own films when you're not surrounded by other people aspiring to make films. You have to work a little harder and rely more on yourself and your collaborators and the real relationships you have. There are so many hypotheticals that dominate the industry, and everyone's always waiting for someone else to tell them when to make a film and write a check and sign the talent.” PeopleWritingRealFilmWaitingTalentRelyReal Relationship Author:Matthew Porterfield
“I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way. I believe a lot of artists become activists because we rely on and value the freedom of expression and so we want to protect it.” BelieveHelpingArtistValuesI BelieveLove IsInspireProtectEducationalRelyActivistEnlighteningFreedom Of Expression Author:Nazanin Boniadi
“There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wanted people to share my music and tell friends about me, and if you want to rely on word of mouth, you have to make it easy for people. I got lucky because I had a few songs that hit big and got a lot of links on blog posts.” PeopleSongEasyShareLuckyMusic IsRelyWord Of Mouth Author:Jonathan Coulton
“China's accumulation of reserves is a result of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian financial crisis a decade or so ago. If countries know they can't rely on the IMF to help them, their best defense is their own reserve cushion. In a time of spreading global recession, too much emphasis on savings in surplus countries like China can impede prospects for global growth.” CountryHelpingGrowthCrisisFinancialRelyFinancial CrisisMismanagement Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.” ThinkingHelpingEasyNaturalTalentTiredRely Author:Monique Coleman
“I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.” ElectionObligationRely Author:Jeh Johnson
“You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.” PeopleThinkingEnoughFightingSpeakCommunityOpinionFocusCivil RightsRelyInfluential Author:David D. Cole
“I feel like I'm changing as a human being, and I think that the work needed to be in line with where I'm at. When I was younger and I was making political work, I was trying to figure out where my work fit in because when you're young you're like, "I don't know." I'm Latino, I grew up in Mexico, and so I thought that maybe I had to talk about those things. Then finally I didn't need my identity to rely on anymore. So now the work is becoming about more esoteric things, I guess - my own sort of language.” ThinkingTryingPoliticalLanguageIdentityFitRelyLatino Author:Fernando Mastrangelo
“Blind audition format is what make our show unique and gives it so much more integrity. After all, the show is called The Voice. It's about vocals, and you have to stand out to get the attention of these four, Grammy-winning superstars who have an amazing ear and know what they're talking about. They rely on their ear as well as the reaction of fans in the audience to figure out whether that contestant is worth pressing that red button for. It's a great concept which keeps everybody on the edge of their seat.” GivingAttentionAudienceIntegrityUniqueBlindRelyStanding OutSuperstar Author:Christina Milian
“I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better, academically, than whites in the South where they did not have much of an emphasis on learning. But please note that I'm not the one making that argument in that section about Michael Moore. And by the way, I'm not a man. White men have done a lot. It's silly to write a book titled, Stupid White Men.” MenWritingBookDoneBlackStupidArgumentSillyRelyMagnificentRedneck Author:Ann Coulter
“I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set up a film in the U.K., because you can't rely on much. In Greece, friends show up and bring what they can and you make the film. Well, that's a bit simpler than how it really is. But when you make a film with proper industries, it takes more time to synch all these things.” FilmPlanningRelyGreece Author:Yorgos Lanthimos
“I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.” ThinkingTryingPastRelyEpic Author:Jason Pierce
“I like the stability, the continuity of having a lifestyle where I know I can pay my rent at the end of each month. And also I have these children that I am raising and it's nice for all of us to sort of know that we're going to be in a specific place for a certain amount of time. I've never known that in my career. So I'm really quite grateful at this point that I get to have the sort of double existence and I can rely on both.” ChildrenExistenceNiceGratefulLifestyleRelyStability Author:Gabrielle Anwar
“I still haven't quite gauged the effects of featuring designers on my blog and on Dazed. I can only rely on what people feed back to me ... the effects are positive though - designers picking up more buyers, entering into new collaborations, getting more orders.... it's all really, really encouraging.” PeopleRelyDesignerCollaborationDazed Author:Susanna Lau
“I'm the biggest proponent of test screenings now. There's two ways to face test screenings. For dramas, I don't know if I would rely on them as much, although I still think you need them, because you're making a movie for an audience at the end of the day. But with comedy... You could go through a script or anything I ever worked on, where you go, "This is hilarious," and you put it in front of people and you get nothing. And then the other side of it, is something you're like, "I think this is really stupid," and it gets a giant laugh.” PeopleThinkingAudienceLaughingComedyStupidDramaRelyReally Stupid Author:Paul Feig
“People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.” PeopleKindHelpingTermDecisionImprovementSignificantRelyGreat Power Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.” PeopleCultureStrangerGenerousRely Author:Rory Stewart
“I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.” WritingArtBookLiteratureRely Author:Jill Magid
“Making movie you just think, well, you know what you're gonna do, and you just when it comes down to the very specifics of it, you kind of have to rely on your mode of panic, and how well your imagination and creativity and all that works when you're in that moment. And you know, frankly, I never worried about that. I never worried that as we moved into the very specifics of it.” ThinkingKindMomentsImaginationCreativityMovedWorriedRely Author:Wayne Coyne
“What we ought to be trying to do is limit the harm that Christian communities and other religious communities can do. But we can't rely on them to make a world of difference. It's just not going to happen.” WorldTryingChristianCommunityReligiousRelyChristian Community Author:Anthony B Pinn
“If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do it. It's unfinished, it has no start-stop time, it's fluid. Practicality relies on indeterminate markers. It's just another kind of knowledge that's sexy, in a certain way. It's reactive, and often physical.” KindSexyBoatRelyPracticalityStop Time Author:Keller Easterling
“I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.” ThinkingTryingChildrenMotherIndividualityRelyWeedRebel Author:Noel Clarke
“Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't rely on the state, that public infrastructure is broken, and they've taken their own measures. People are growing their own food and selling their produce to local stores and restaurants. It's certainly not a fix-all; Detroit's problems are too deep-rooted for quick-fix solutions. But it's a hopeful sign. Detroiters are crafting their own solutions rather than being passive in the face of the city's and state's actions and inactions.” PeopleProblemActionTakenBrokenSolutionsSellingRelyHopefulPassiveInactionDystopiaUtopian Author:Sasha Abramsky
“Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which made it possible to express things directly, without having to rely on the written word, which was manipulated by men.” MenArtConcernedDirectRely1960sWritten Word Author:Valie Export
“My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.” LongImportantFilmInterestRely Author:Valie Export
“Trusting God means transferring our confidence and hope from ourselves to him, acknowledging that we have no ability in ourselves to live in a way that pleases him. Only he can change us by the power of his Spirit in us. This trust is manifested in a context of obedience in our lives to the biblical mandates God calls us to pursue. Training means acting upon that trust by doing things that help us rely upon God more and live out his desire for us.” MeanHelpingSpiritDesireAbilityActingTrainingObedienceRelyTrust In GodBiblical Author:Kenneth Boa
“There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.” FightingDemocracyVotePoliceRelyGoing AwayDictatorRiot Author:Garry Kasparov
“I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the poetic license." We accept it as being an art form of sorts: the incorrect rearrangement of meaningful things. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. We're just making sounds out of our mouths if we don't both accept that what I'm saying has very significant meanings, and I'm accurately targeting what vocabulary I use and how I arrange each word.” PeopleThinkingArtLiteratureAcceptingAcceptanceMeaningfulSignificantRelyPoetic Author:Jimenez Lai
“There are a few minority governments in Europe, but I think the largest member state would be well-advised to establish a government that can rely on a clear parliamentary majority. Think about EU summits. If the chancellor were forced to obtain support from parliament for each and every detail, it would slow the work of the EU.” ThinkingSupportRely Author:Gunther Oettinger
“In the past, Germany could rely on the French, the British and, especially, the Americans, to assert our interests in the world. We have always criticized the U.S. for being the global police, and it was often appropriate to do so. But we are now seeing what happens when the U.S. pulls back. If the U.S. leaves the room, other powers immediately walk in. In Syria, it's Russia and Iran. In trade policy, it's China. These examples show that, ultimately, we are no longer achieving either - neither the dissemination of our European values nor the advancement of our interests.” WorldPastValuesInterestAchievePolicyPoliceTradeRelySyria Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“The thing is, allies is people who are friends, people you can rely on in the struggle. You're not always going to agree with your allies. For instance, Stevie Wonder I feel like is my ally when it comes to this Florida situation, but I don't agree with his strategy. That doesn't mean he isn't an ally.” PeopleMeanSituationWonderStruggleAgreeStrategyRely Author:Talib Kweli