“When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.” BigsAmericaCultureDifficultReligiousBehindsRightsMovementCollegeSeriousTreatedCivil RightsShockIrrelevant1960sDifficult TimesUpbringingCulture Shock Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
“This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .” PoliticalPresidentRaceBehindsSeriousGunCongressRingsDiscussionClassroomBellsGoing To WorkSaying Ok Author:Tamar Jacoby
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.” ThinkingWritingTryingRealHardPlayFactsJoyPoetryProcessBehindsPracticeSeriousPoetLuckyAimExcuseTechniqueContactAbandonOur ThoughtsExhilarating Author:Tracy K. Smith
“The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.” ThinkingEnoughFunBehindsAudienceTakenSeriousGreat ThingsWeedNever Quit Author:Alexander Gould
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.” IfsWorldShouldMayMeanPhilosophyRealityEyeTodayCoursesBehindsHonestSeriousExpressionPhotographyDirectPhotographerPhotographConnectedEvolveMeritRelatedConsiderationPulseSelective Author:Berenice Abbott
“I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.” ThinkingTryingGovernmentBehindsPolicySeriousInstitutionsStructureFinancialRealisticRegulationCurrencyExaminationShortcomingsMonetaryEuroDiplomaticRobustMonetary PolicyFiscal PolicyFinancial Regulation Author:Stephen Harper
“The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.” ArtTwoMatterFightingLosesLeadershipBehindsFrontsMovementSeriousMassContactIsolatedLag Author:Joseph Stalin
“Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole.” PeopleLifeTryingPersonsWholeShowsFacesGrowthBehindsEnvironmentSeriousIntegrityPersonal GrowthInvestingYieldSay AnythingBeneficialAccusingCounterproductiveLack Of Integrity Author:Ray Dalio
“The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.” PeopleWorldNeedsTryingNextEnergyBehindsHalfPovertyDangerousSeriousCleanAccessNuclearBillionsPlanningGlobal WarmingElectricityDangerous ThingsRenewable EnergyAbout FamilyProliferationAlleviateOverpopulationFamily PlanningNuclear ProliferationSolar Panels Author:Ted Turner
“I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think that artists need good lawyers and accountants, because they're dealing with serious money. But an artist who stands behind a manager? That's a little different. I think that can be a bad buffer.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentRealArtistBehindsSeriousLawyerDialogueManagersAccountantsHindranceGood Lawyer Author:Larry Gagosian
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“I tell young girls all the time: "Go for the guys who are more serious, distinguished". The hot-model types, they're too pretty, and too wet behind the ears. Besides, do you want a guy who takes longer to get ready than you?” WantYoungGuyGirlBehindsSeriousReadyTypeModelsEarsHotWetDistinguished Author:Kimora Lee Simmons
“I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.” KnowsLongHas BeensSometimesRealityFacesBehindsLordLaughingCrySeriousGoodnessJokesMiseryOccasionsGloriousIncarnation Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
“...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?” BehindsSeeingSeriousRootsPanicAbsurditySerious Things Author:Rene Daumal
“[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.” PeopleWorldWayHeartFactsRealityLightCulturePresidentBehindsLibertyDarknessSecuritySeriousBlindShiningThreatDemocraticTerroristDenialAddressesCivilizedMedievalPragmaticMuslim World Author:David Horowitz
“There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing that hair. Really putting some thought and effort behind it and it's astounding how terrible I used to make myself look. Still to this day I don't really know how to dress myself.” KnowsLooksStillsUsedEffortBehindsKnow HowFrontsSeriousHairTerribleMirrorsDressesShirtsThis DayPantsChecking Out Author:Rob Huebel
“I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.” KnowsChristianAmericaBehindsKnow HowGenerationsSeriousLeavingBuddhistMentalityYounger Generation Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.” FirstsWellsTogetherBehindsSeriousDrugTherapyHotelOur RelationshipSerious WorkHotel Lobby Author:George Carlin
“Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.” ProblemBehindsSecurityMilitarySeriousEuropePopulationInternalsCapabilityCompetitivenessDemography Author:Viktor Orban
“If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.” IfsWantI CanNaturalBehindsSeriousFitDrugPressesFocusedHungryNecksBecause I CanBenchesSquat Author:Kai Greene