“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.” IfsWorldNeedsPersonsWholeHomeCertainPayCitiesMillionsNew YorkRight NowNormalDollarsAverageLos AngelesMore MoneyMillion DollarsIowaStarters Author:Karrine Steffans
“We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.” ShowsPayStudyChildhoodRight NowDollarsEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Tim Kaine
“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantSometimesSeemsWould BePainGamesWinningHeavenPayFailingAtheismRight NowMiseryFortunePositive AtheismPackages Author:Gene Roddenberry
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” WorldWantYearsHumansEyeTogetherChoicesCan DoHuman BeingsSimpleSpacePoorPayForeverDoorsRight NowWeaponsGunAnd LoveBiggerDefenseChanging The WorldClothingsLocksFeedingExcludedLosing YourselfLove And FearEyes Of Love Author:Bill Hicks
“The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.” IfsWayEnoughSchoolPayEconomyMovementStudentsRight NowLocalsPerformingLunchFrozenPublic SchoolSchool SystemFresh FoodLocal FoodSchool Lunch Author:Michael Pollan
“The music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered.” PeopleThinkingPayActingAttentionRecordsIndustryRight NowConcernCreditPay AttentionCoveredMusic IndustryArtistryFickle Author:Bow Wow
“A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.” WayBookStatesFactsLinesRoomsPayFiguresInternetRight NowLawyerJournalismOfficialsGet AwayEditorsRumorReckoningBloggersLibelPublic OfficialsCheckers Author:Rod Lurie
“I wouldn't be so bold as to say that what we're doing is what sets us apart from everyone, I think that's for everyone else to decide. You're walking the thin line by saying something like that and we don't try and pay attention to what's popular right now. The second you do that you're just going to start sounding like other people and you're going to lose sigh of who you are.” PeopleThinkingTryingLosesLinesPayAttentionWalkingRight NowWho You ArePay AttentionSigh Author:Jason C. Miller
“I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is a multitude of wisdom that can be gained by bands like Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and the Cure. I think if we were to pay close attention to what's on the radio right now then we'd lose our identity entirely.” IfsThinkingFirstsArtistBlackLosesPayAttentionIdentityRight NowBandInspiredRadioCuresMultitudesPlaying MusicSabbathBlack SabbathDepeche Mode Author:Jason C. Miller
“I don't pay attention to the 'marginalizers.' They simply don't have any impact anymore, on where we're headed or what the law is. I'm not worried about gay people in America right now, as opposed to their status in other countries. The change here was remarkable and swift, which was awesome, and we've witnessed that change right before our eyes.” PeopleCountryEyeAmericaLawPayAttentionRight NowGayImpactWorriedPay AttentionRemarkableOther CountriesGay People Author:Todd Haynes
“I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.” HardKidsPaySacrificeHard WorkRight NowHard Work Pays Off Author:Dwyane Wade
“Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.” ThinkingProblemLevelsPayFieldsVictoryRight NowPrivilegeSolveBlockOur TimeExtrasIllegalSiteBetter PlacePlaying FieldsProvidersGreat VictoryService ProvidersLevel Playing Field Author:Tim Wu
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's the Holy Grail right now for the whole media industry, and so that's where most of our efforts are going to: How do we get people to pay for this, and to continue to pay for it as there's more and more competition for their attention?” PeopleWholeEffortPayAttentionMediaIndustryHolyRight NowCompetitionHoly Grail Author:Maria Rodale
“You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.” PeopleNeedsSongVoicePayMissingRight NowPerformancesVideoSellingIrresistibleGreat Voice Author:Sean Garrett
“Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.” ThinkingMindMeanEndsFilmPayRight NowPressureIndependentEntertainmentCorporateFilmmakerConfusedExcessMarketplaceIndependent FilmMeans To An End Author:Robert Redford
“I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.” CountryWholePayAttentionOne ThingDangerousRight NowWhole LifeRidiculousObsessionObsessedJeansTherapistsCarbohydrates Author:Christina Ricci
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.” LifeInspirationalMomentsPainPastRememberPayAttentionFutureRight NowSafePainfulPay AttentionContemplatingI Have LearnedPreciseLive In The MomentLive For TodayPast Present FutureSafe PlacesCherish Every Moment Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity