“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.” HomeArtistTakenActivityAchievementHappeningsMythMelodrama Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
“We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.” WayResponsibilityTakenLuckyHappeningsHopefullyVolunteer Author:Jennifer Garner
“I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy” ThinkingHas BeensActionEconomyTakenHappeningsAssumingRateSettingSettingsDataAppropriateCommitteesDynamics Author:Bill Vaughan
“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.” KnowsSaidSometimesKnow HowTakenExampleInternetHappeningsOkayYeahStrategySurpriseDeeperListsPrioritiesFasterPhenomenonSpellsFifth Author:Bill Gates
“Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!” IfsSpeakTakenRightsHappeningsCivil RightsOur FamilyFamily And Friends Author:Cyndi Lauper
“Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.” MindIdeasSelfEyeUsedMemoriesTakenHappeningsComplexesConnectedSurfaceStreamsDescriptionAnticipationOngoingPenetrateDensityManifoldTactile Author:Terence McKenna
“A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.” PeopleWorldFilmUsedNamesTakenRocksEventsHappeningsThings HappenCinemaCarrieWayne Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.” HeartWholeFormTakenWorshipHappeningsSeasonsSundayTestamentCeremonyNew TestamentThrust Author:John Piper
“The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.” ShouldSpeakGivenTakenHappeningsResearchDataElusive Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.” PeopleThinkingMayStillsEndsWholeYoungRealizingWalksTakenHeardTerribleNormalHappeningsSickTrainDrivenGasTornOld PeopleTruckChamberTerrible ThingsNormal LifeAuschwitzVery CleverGas Chambers Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“I feel that I am entitled to take medicinal marijuana. In general, I believe that everyone who has a doctor's prescription is entitled to take marijuana. I, however, do not believe that my day in court should be taken from me, and that's essentially what's happening.” FeelsShouldBelieveI BelieveTakenHappeningsDoctorsCourtMarijuanaEntitledPrescriptions Author:Peter McWilliams
“We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.” ThinkingCountryResultsTakenHappeningsCurrentsOur CountryAdministrationWrong ThingsWrong Direction Author:Edgar Mitchell