“Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.” MindIdeasHappensPastHappenedSubjectsHappeningsDistracted Book:Turning the Mind Into an Ally Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally
“It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.” ThinkingPersonsTwoHappensSubjectsCommunicationReasoning Author:Oliver Evans
“It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.” PeopleMeanHappensComedySubjectsAspectAbortionCannibalismUptight Author:Rob McElhenney
“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.” IfsTryingProblemHandsHappensPainLyingSoundPresidentCompassionClearSubjectsExampleNotesTongueTiedIdealismVocabularyNo ProblemGrammarMagnanimitySyntaxCuffsTongue TiedInfliction Author:Mark Crispin Miller
“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.” FeelsArtStoriesHappensJobsBlackSubjectsEventsDeserveBasesFolksFilmmakerBlack WomenSociologyPreferenceOngoingSubjectivityVisibility Author:Ava DuVernay
“Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.” WholeHappensSpecialSubjectsTypeTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentTypology Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.” PeopleKnowsHumansDifferentMightHappensKidsKnowingStudySubjectsCollegeResearchSightPrisonQuittingExperimentsCopCommitteesApprovedRobbersStanfordKids PlayingCops And Robbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.” WorldHappensSuccessCareersSubjectsThis WorldBuddhismPowerlessWhatever Happens Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed.” WritingPersonsUseHappensSubjectsConversationEncountersGood WillDismayed Author:Annie Dillard
“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.” ThinkingPlayBigsHappensForceSubjectsHugeTerribleConsequenceFollyCustomsMomentumAccounting Author:Charlie Munger
“If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!” PeopleIfsThinkingMenTryingSaidStillsIdeasEndsHardSeemsHappensLastsSoundVoiceSubjectsConversationSentencesLikesDislikeCharmingLast WordsRemarksSeemingOpinionatedGraciousness Author:Margery Wilson
“The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.” GivingIdeasHappensWaitingSubjectsPhotograph Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.” FeelsHappensLawCertainSubjectsMoralityCriminalsInclinationCriminal LawIrregularity Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.” PeopleIfsLooksDoeTwoSometimesHappensArtistCrazyWorstSubjectsStupidRegretImpressionJournalistInterviewsPortraitsWorst ThingsEmbarrassing Author:Antony Hegarty
“When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.” IfsKindMeanHappensSchoolFallStuffSubjectsDramaFalling ApartDiggingScrutinyAnalyzing Author:Jared Harris
“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.” ShouldTryingFirstsArtStatesReasonHappensLawReligiousSubjectsSpeechCongressFolksDebateRationalWeatherReason WhyShyNo ReasonReviewsAmendmentsRecallsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentAppraisal Author:Jeffrey Tayler
“I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.” ThinkingSoulHappensWould BeMovingHouseSubjectsDialogueMy SoulPerpetual Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.” GivingHappensLawUnderstandingAttentionSubjectsGeniusPeriodsAttractionLaw Of AttractionEvolveMake It HappenSpecifics Author:Esther Hicks
“A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.” WellsHappensAsksSubjectsExtraordinaryPatientNonsenseSymptomsSelectExaggerationSelectedCrocodilesAilments Author:Carl Jung
“The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."” MenWellsHappensUsedWishSubjectsHe ManEternalLateDiedTablesDinnerBlissWish YouDinner TableOh WellI Wish You Would Author:Bertrand Russell
“In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsStoriesHappensFilmSubjectsFiguresMalesObstaclesHarmDrivenLove StoryFoePersevereProtagonists Author:Todd Haynes
“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.” IfsGivingLooksEndsFactsStoriesHappensSchoolSpaceImagineSubjectsHappeningsThings HappenRestraintSpectatorsDidactic Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but in the course of working something shows up on the film or in the print that speaks to me. I can never predict when this will happen. However, when it does there is an excitement - there is the ecstasy of recognition. And this is one of the things that keeps me going.” DoeI CanShowsHappensFilmCoursesSpeakKnownMysterySubjectsRecognitionExcitementPrintEcstasyStanding OutNever Quit Author:Ray Metzker
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist