“My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.” WishUnderstandingSurfaceChinese Author:Ai Weiwei
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.” StillsVoiceLeadershipPrideConscienceAverageSurfaceTunesDeceivingDeep DownHypeMemories Dreams ReflectionsHubrisSmall VoiceBelow The SurfaceDeceiving Ourselves Author:Carl Jung
“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.” MeanCultureSpiritualityReligiousTeacherIndiaDepthSurfaceVisibleIslamicTemplesReligious Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.” WayOrdinaryAncientSurfaceGreekAncient Greek Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.” IfsThinkingWholeWould BeCertainTurnsStuffGenerationsTvsSurfaceTurn-onOur GenerationPalate Author:Ani DiFranco
“I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.” HumansStoriesEyeBeautifulWonderfulWindOceanSurvivalDepthMetaphorSurfaceDesertVehicleHarshDesolationCounterparts Author:Vera Nazarian
“The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.” MysteryIllusionIdealsSurfaceEndlessDesertLayersBlankSlatePseudoBlank Slates Author:Vera Nazarian
“I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.” NeedsStructureConnectedSurface Author:Lucinda Childs
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson
“I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.” ThinkingCultureInfluenceSurfaceVery Deep Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.” WholeChristianCultureHoursChurchFindingsEternalTraditionSurfaceMilesEnterpriseRootedTimelessDivingBeneath The SurfaceDiving Deep Author:Parker J. Palmer
“If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.” IfsLooksYeahSurfaceCorporateReally GreatScratchesGreat MusicHolland Author:Eddy de Clercq
“If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayMaySurfaceAccessBunchIrrelevantGrumpyLeviticus Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.” IfsTermIssuesDesignTheoryBattleIntelligentSurfaceDebateMathematicalBiologyEntityContinuingMetaphysicalNaturalismThesisCreationismIntelligent DesignScientific TheoryEvolutionary Biology Author:Elliott Sober
“In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft from the surface of Mars, walked in space and looked down into deep space and got terrified, with the headphones and the goggles.” FilmCan DoSpaceCarSurfaceDrivingCraftsMarsTerrifiedHeadphonesMartiansDeep SpaceDriving CarsGoggles Author:Martin Sorrell
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanStoriesTermHappeningsConcernScientistClimateClimate ChangeSurfaceConstructsTemperature Author:Dale Jamieson
“As painful and destructive as they are, the hateful comments allow us to map the underlying beliefs of many people in a way we've never been able to before. It's almost as if all of the negativity and misogyny needs to come to the surface so we can fully understand what it is, and how deep it goes, before we can begin to shift it. Of course, I wish it weren't there.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsAbleCoursesBeliefWishPainfulSurfaceDestructiveMapsCommentNegativityMisogynyHateful Author:Monica Lewinsky
“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.” LooksIndividualWonderObjectsColorPaintingSurfaceTexture Author:Mordicai Gerstein
“I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.” KnowsKindChildrenDreamAmericaGrewBedQuietGrew UpPrivilegeSurfaceAmerican DreamQuiet Time Author:Bill Ayers
“Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.” DifferentPoetSurfaceFrustratedHuntersSimilarityOld FriendsBeing FrustratedHunter's Thompson Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.” WorldNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsIdeasWarGovernmentRunningCertainVoiceEconomyGoneEconomicCenturyColdOrdinaryAspectStonesWindowBillsClintonConservativeSurfaceLibertarianArguingPlanningSocialismRollingDominantCold War20th CenturyRolling StonesMarket EconomyBlahDissidentsCentralization Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.” WayTryingWellsTwoSoundInfluenceMaterialsListeningReflectionMirrorsSurfaceSensesVisualsTailsReflectingTwo WaysImprovisationAcousticsContemplativeCentering Author:Pauline Oliveros
“What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour.” KindHappensFormSkinsSurfaceDryProtectiveFlourHunk Author:Alton Brown
“You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm. So the way that I avoid this is I keep my gravy - the second it's done, I put it in a thermos, which will keep it hot and will prevent air from getting to the surface. And I keep it there till the last moment. The last thing that goes out to the table is the gravy, and I pour it out of the thermos and immediately move it in.” KnowsWayTryingDoneMomentsHappensLastsMovingAirStageSkinsHotTablesWarmSurfaceBoatGravyThermos Author:Alton Brown
“Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.” KnowsYearsSometimesSurface Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.” IdeasDifferencesWhiteEnvironmentGreaterUnderstoodStructureSurfaceClarityVoidTransparencyWhiteness Author:Richard Meier
“It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.” PeopleKindBehaviorCrisisSurfaceBelow The Surface Author:Peter Buffett
“What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.” LooksMayProblemOne ThingSurface Author:Peter Buffett
“My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.” NovelProudSurfaceItalianHeritageItalian American Author:Wally Lamb
“I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.” WayWantedPiecesLike YouComputerPicksSurfaceSculptureClay Author:Owsley Stanley
“Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.” PeopleWritingMindStillsProblemIssuesMetsGayAssumingSurfaceDividesLarryGay PeopleYaleKramer Author:Kevin Sessums
“The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only to be expected that the next step would be for the sectarian religious dynamics to surface, for one religious group to be fighting another religious group.” PeopleBigsWould BePoliticalFightingNextReligiousStepsGroupsIraqSurfaceExpectedIslamicEmpoweredNext StepsDynamicsPolitical Groups Author:Yanar Mohammed
“The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.” NeedsHas BeensEnoughFactsGovernmentSupportFocusMediaReturnSurfaceAmendmentsFourthTransparencyInformingFourth Amendment Author:Nat Hentoff
“With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.” WritingYearsIdeasDifferentSeemsSurfaceFrightenedKickingNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.” HouseProcessUnderstandingPresidentWhiteDecisionSecurityInformationFinalsSurfaceChiefsWhite HouseMakersStaffNational SecurityAdviserDecision MakersChief Of Staff Author:Barack Obama
“We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only for the acclaim it's gotten but also because it showcases all the different kinds formats we use. So we compiled a database of all the variables of all the mass shootings in America - work the government doesn't do, thanks to the NRA - which allowed us to surface patterns and make data visualizations of it.” KindImportantDifferentDoneStoriesUseGovernmentAmericaMassGunPatternsSurfaceThanksDataShootingDifferent KindsVisualizationFormatVariablesHighlightsNraShowcaseAcclaimDatabasesMass Shootings Author:Clara Jeffery
“I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?” ThinkingFeelsLooksKindTwoRealStatesNextLinesStepsCasesGenerationsRight NowFindingsDemocraticSurfaceDigitalFascismFierceBizarreGrapplingTotalitarian State Author:Chelsea Manning
“I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.” ChildrenChoicesDifficultAnswersKnownSurface Author:John Hurt
“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.” ThinkingBelieveWellsDoeSaidI CanTwoWalksImagineFrontsCrossesEdgesSurfaceBottlesCapsBecause I CanOver The EdgeBuckminster FullerMeaning Something Author:Paul Laffoley
“I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional surfaces in three-space. And you are not going into any other dimensions at all." And they were furious, because they thought I was attacking Madame [Elena] Blavatsky.” SaidTwoRealityThreeSpaceConceptsSurfacePlanesDimensionsAttackingFuriousStacking Author:Paul Laffoley
“Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.” ThinkingWayCertainKnowingRight NowWho You AreIndividualitySurfaceSettlingDeep Down Author:Alicia Keys
“Let's let everything come to the surface, even with people we come in contact with for a moment. This situation can help us be a little bit more awake with each other.” PeopleLittlesMomentsHelpingBitsSituationLittle BitSurfaceContactAwake Author:Zoe Kravitz
“When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.” WellsLooksI CanEndsBigsWould BeAgeLastsCertainCitiesImagineStreetsWestCome UpSurfaceCoreMilesComplexityGermanyLakesChicagoExcessMagnificentBerlinMarblePretentiousTorontoBarcelonaRetailBronzeEdinburghWest GermanyWest Berlin Author:William Gibson
“In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.” DoeTwoMomentsHappensReadingReaderKissingFishesCome UpSurface Author:George Saunders
“The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLittlesHas BeensRunningPoorLevelsNiceCrazyTrumpNormalShould HaveBiggerPressesWingsSurfaceNarrativeRacistClueEmployedShould Have BeenRight WingMilitantWeird Things Author:George Saunders
“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.” IfsWorldWantThis WorldSourceAnxietyDepthDeeperSurfaceCalmness Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.” IfsOceanDepthCalmWaveSurfaceBliss Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“The thing about the summit region of Mount Washington, it can have areas that are flat and rolling. In those conditions, it's very difficult not to become disoriented, because it's not like you're on a face where you know what's up and what's down. You're on a flat surface. Every direction is the same in a white-out condition. And with wind speeds constantly changing direction, within a minute you have no idea where you are.” KnowsIdeasFacesDifficultWhiteMinutesConditionsWindLike YouAreasSurfaceSpeedNo IdeaRegionsFlatsWhere You AreRollingSummit Author:Hugh Herr
“In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.” WarStatesLastsPastUnitedResultsHalfUnited StatesGenerationsCenturyMovedAddWesternForgottenSurfaceInsultInjuryFriendlyMexicoTreaties19th CenturyCooperativesInsult To InjuryGuadalupe Author:Alan Bersin