“TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.” PeopleIdeasTeachingLandResourcesNew Ideas Author:Ramez Naam
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsChildrenArtRealUseCareArtistImagineSmartResourcesTradeConstantFeel GoodExpensiveExcessFeel BetterPercentages Author:Lawrence Weiner
“The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.” PeopleStatesProblemCareAgeIndividualUnitedDealsUnited StatesGrowingHappeningsResourcesPopulationTake CareOlder PeopleHealthier Life Author:Isabel Allende
“Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldKindImportantSelfCountryStatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesResourcesAgreeImportant ThingsRussiaSufficientScenariosNatural ResourcesProvincesSelf Sufficient Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.” PeopleYearsFirstsCountryProblemBigsTodayNaturalWealthMistakeIssuesEnvironmentResourcesConcernedRaisesEnvironmentalRussiaDespiteAgendasEnvironmental Issues Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.” PeopleMightEasyGraceIdentityHonorResourcesEducationalReally Amazing Author:Lena Dunham
“The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.” PeopleIfsNeedsHas BeensTodayOrderTurnsTermRealizingAwarenessProudLessonsDiversityPerceptionCreatingResourcesInstrumentsProductionsGoodsPrimitiveMultipleTechnologicalJustifiedEcologicalMillennium Author:Vandana Shiva
“The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.” PeopleWayGrowthForgetNumbersIssuesIgnoranceResourcesPopulationStupidityPhenomenonLinkedExplosionsProgressionEcologicalPopulation GrowthGeometricStupidity And IgnoranceUsurpationPopulation Explosion Author:Vandana Shiva
“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.” PeopleMeanChildrenLongMightActionTermCrimePolicyLowsResourcesCommittedFocusedPrioritiesImmigrationAdministrationLong TermAffectedEnforcementRulingRaising ChildrenResidents Author:Barack Obama
“There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingLooksHelpingArtistEasyCompanyResourcesTheaterRaisesMagazinesHelplessPowerless Author:Amanda Palmer
“I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.” PeopleWantHelpingCommonAwarenessResourcesAppealsPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.” PeopleThinkingMaySchoolHumanityPleasureGainsResourcesOrganizationResponsibleInstitutionsFinancialGenerositySuspicionMisunderstandingZealFinancial ResourcesIgnoring People Author:Fethullah Gulen
“We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.” PeopleThinkingWorldStatesAmericaEnergyUnitedSituationUnited StatesCenturyRight NowResourcesIndependentUniversityProductiveCapitalistUnited States Of AmericaVenturePlaces In The WorldNorth AmericaWorkforceVenture Capitalists Author:Joe Biden
“For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.” PeopleUseJobsGrowsNaturalEconomySucceedModelsResourcesEmbraceSpeciesConservationWildlifeNatural ResourcesIconic Author:David Jeremiah Barron
“I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people.” PeopleWorldNeedsBelieveBigsGovernmentTodayOrderI BelieveIssuesResourcesEnvironmentalCorporateCooperationIndigenousInvolvementWorld TodayIndigenous PeopleCorporate WorldEnvironmental Issues Author:Michael Franti
“I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.” PeopleWayWantFeelsKindStillsRealUnderstandingLeaderResourcesAccessTranslateEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover. There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.” PeopleWayMayBookDifferentChristianAuthorityPagesResourcesDown AndEndureScriptureSuspectsCoveredVolumeSectionsTheological Author:D. A. Carson
“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
“I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingPowerfulResourcesData Author:Ted Cruz
“Leaders make things happen. Leaders will take a situation and try and figure out what is it that we're trying to do, what is the problem, what kind of priorities and resources do we need, what kind of people do I need to bring to bear on this problem, what kind of plans do we need to succeed.” PeopleNeedsTryingKindProblemHappensSituationLeaderPlansFiguresBearsSucceedResourcesPrioritiesThings HappenMake Things Happen Author:Herman Cain
“The sooner the Iraqi people are able to take their country's destiny in their own hands and establish their own control over it and its national resources, the sooner the process of pushing the forces of international terrorism out of Iraq will be able to begin. And the sooner the process of consolidating Iraqi society itself will also be able to begin.” PeopleCountryHandsAbleForceProcessDestinyResourcesInternationalIraqTerrorismPushingOver ItInternational Terrorism Author:Vladimir Putin
“We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsMayMeanSeemsHumanityCultureIndividualEasyCommunityLevelsResourcesCompetitionWesternLocalsDominantScarceWestern CultureWants And NeedsScarce Resources Author:Elisabet Sahtouris
“One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.” PeopleHas BeensImportantSeemsCoursesResearchResourcesUltimateEmphasisFinite Author:Daniel Kahneman
“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.” PeopleIfsWellsMayDoeHas BeensMatterMightPoliticalIndividualAttentionGroupsSecurityCrimeInvolvedResourcesPoliceAssumingInternationalTerrorismTerroristHandleLocalsBackwardsNational SecurityBureaucracyLinkedDisturbedReluctantTerrorist Groups Author:Daniel Byman
“The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.” PeopleNeedsCompanyTeamDesignHugeCostBehaviorLowsResourcesExperimentsThoughtfulFlexibilityTappingLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveViewsMoralOpinionParticularTheoryResourcesPrejudiceErrorsAvailableStrikesRidiculousSensibleOffensive Author:Allen W. Wood
“Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.” PeopleIfsProblemGivenSolutionsResourcesDrivingMarketplaceCheaperSolution To A Problem Author:Dean Kamen
“Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.” PeopleGivingRememberOpportunityVisionResourcesAvailableAccomplish Author:John C. Maxwell
“The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now involved in criminal and reprise and activity, and we do not have the resources or the will to deport them systematically.” PeopleCountryRealityInvolvedActivityResourcesTragedyCriminalsHeartbreakingAmerican Family Author:Mike Pence
“Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all these things that don't matter, and not to what does matter, such as parents having enough resources to provide an environment where their children have both security and freedom.” PeopleChildrenDoeMatterEnoughParentPayAttentionEnvironmentSecurityResourcesPay AttentionIronySecurity And Freedom Author:Alison Gopnik
“The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view - which is often very focused on the creative task itself - and the resource-allocation process. The impresario has to make certain the funds and people required to get that task completed are available.” PeopleCertainProcessViewsCreativeResourcesTasksFunctionAvailableFocusedPoint Of ViewBridgesFundTranslatorsAllocation Author:John Kao
“Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.” PeopleArtistGoalCreativeEnvironmentAchieveResourcesMaking MoneyFiniteCreative PeopleCommunesAchieving GoalsDeploying Author:John Kao
“I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.” PeopleWantHandsKidsAbleAmericaCompanyComputerResourcesLike MeApplesTablets Author:LeVar Burton
“People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.” PeopleNeedsHumansStillsLife IsSufferingLossDealsAliveGoes OnResourcesResilienceMourningLife Is LikeAdaptability Author:Dale Jamieson
“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.” PeopleWorldNeedsCountryWholeProblemJobsCompanyEconomySolutionsResourcesProgramBasesMajorityDemocraticMeetingsProfitPermanentFuelMassiveTransitionNew WorldOwnershipFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelRotting Author:Kshama Sawant
“If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.” PeopleIfsHomeSeemsAbleFeetPromiseOffersResourcesObviousOfferingShelterRefugeeGoing HomeBangladesh Author:Indira Gandhi
“I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWholeUseWould BeAbleTermSupportApproachModelsCapitalismResourcesEconomicsDemocraticSocialismCapitalistWiserDemocratic Socialism Author:Bell Hooks
“Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"” PeopleFeelsMayPersonsI CanEnoughStoriesSufferingAbilityGroupsShareSkillsResourcesFortunateAcquireListenersAlleviateInquiring Author:Chath Piersath
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.” PeopleHumansWholeNaturalRacePovertyMillionsLandResourcesCrisisGreedHuman RaceFortyShelterDistressStolenNatural ResourcesPublic Lands Author:Denis Kearney
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayShouldTryingYearsEyeCareRealizingEconomyStageBrokenInternetPromiseResourcesAdvantageLibraryBoatHeyWhy NotSailingVeilsRecoveringSwampsKnittingBroken PromisesBest YearHey You Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.” PeopleWorldLooksFightingResourcesKillingAround The WorldScarceKilling Each OtherScarce Resources Author:Kofi Annan
“Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.” PeopleFeelsEnoughSpeakStrongCan DoResourcesEarsCaringManageStrong EnoughSlogansDependency Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."” PeopleSeemsOpportunitySpeakResponsibilityMoralGreaterTrainingResourcesControversyFacilityMoral Responsibility Author:Noam Chomsky
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.” PeopleKnowsLongTodayNaturalMillionsLandMassLong TimeHundredResourcesWestSizeAvailableRussiaJapanLong Time AgoNatural Resources Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when it is brought? I am saying the law enforcement authorities have a pretty good idea about a lot of these kind of persons. We want it to pool all that knowledge and all those resources, so that they focus on these people.” PeopleWantKindPersonsIdeasLawOrderFocusCarMastersAuthorityResourcesStealingPoolGood IdeasLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.” PeopleWorldCareEarthNationsCommonEnvironmentResourcesTake CareAtmosphereHeritageAbolish Author:Jacque Fresco
“In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?” PeopleIfsKindStatesProblemYoungCertainSocialPoorUnitedUnited StatesRightsResourcesProgramSickAll KindsInstanceAdministrationWelfareAssistanceAgeingSocial ServiceTenantsWithdrawingWelfare Programs Author:Murray Bookchin
“One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy named Walter Jones, who's a member of Congress from North Carolina, got some books and resource materials, and he got up in the press and said he didn't want any Muslim books in the library. And the people said, "Wait a minute, that's kind of anti-Muslim." He said, "Oh no, Keith Ellison is a friend of mine." And I said, "You know what? We are friends, but you're wrong about this.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindSaidBookCountryGuyWaitingMinutesMinesMaterialsMembersResourcesPressesIslamLibraryCongressLocalsOne TimeCarolinaNorth CarolinaKeith Author:Keith Ellison