“Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.” WorldWellsLongCountryJobsEnergyViewsTakenSourceResourcesEuropeWesternGrantedAustraliaRevenueAffordableInventoryWestern Europe Author:John S. Watson
“God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.” PeopleGivenForeverTakenSourceDamn Author:Francois Duvalier
“it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.” KnowsLossTakenImpossibleSourceAccountsPlanningConquerPreparationDesolation Book:Burger's Daughter Source: Burger's Daughter
“I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.” ThinkingBelieveScienceImaginationStudyTakenSourceSpringResearchAstronomySincereDeep Thinking Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDifferentSelfCareLife IsSpiritCertainChoicesBeliefPathTakenSourceEgoWho You AreAccomplishYou ChooseRoutesThink Of YouDifferent Directions Author:Wayne Dyer
“One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.” WholeTakenSourceCivilizationTraditionArguingBuddhistContemplative Author:Sam Harris
“Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has little flavor, little light and little influence. When near beliefs are our only source of motivation, tough stands are never taken, feathers are never ruffled, and absolutes are held very loosely.” LittlesHomeLightMotivationBeliefChurchChristianityTakenInfluenceSourceToughAbsolutesBlameBrandsFlavorFeathersEpidemics Author:Dennis Rainey
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley
“Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.” SocialLinesBrainTakenSourceMiseryWithin YouIdentification Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.” IfsThinkingNationsNaturalTakenSourceResourcesTradeDependentContinentsNatural ResourcesDeveloped Nations Author:Stevie Wonder
“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.” PeopleTryingHumansHas BeensSaidSidesSuccessfulTakenSourceBearsEatingCreatingIndependentSpeciesAvailableListsInstanceRegulationThreatenedBoth SidesGarbageEndangered SpeciesGrizzliesYellowstoneGrizzly Bears Author:David Quammen
“Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.” ImportantStoriesTakenModernInformationSourceJournalismModern Journalism Author:Glenn Greenwald
“One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.” LooksImportantMotivationalMotivationProcessSimplePowerfulCreativityTakenFocusSourceAspectGrantedWillingnessBotheredTaken For GrantedTaking Things For GrantedTook For Granted Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas