“We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.” MenHappensRememberConsciousnessUniversalChainsIslandsIsolatedDisconnected Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.” HumansAgeCultureBrainConsciousnessUniversalPhilosophicalFundamentalsAvailableHuman Brain Author:John Hagelin
“When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.” HumansRealityLawIndividualConsciousnessCivilizationUniversalHarmonyUnityCollectivesLaws Of NatureAccordPeace And HarmonyHuman Civilization Author:John Hagelin
“I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.” ThinkingWantSecretComedyUniversalAppeals Author:Kevin Hart
“I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.” PeopleWorldShouldBookUnderstandingWhiteFocusUniversalPainterPrimariesUsa Author:Justine Larbalestier
“I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingMatterLevelsSecretTalkingComedyFansPositionMaterialsJokesAppreciateUniversalNo Matter WhatPatternsRelateAppealsRealness Author:Kevin Hart
“Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.” WorldCountryCultureMusic IsUniversalAround The World Author:Mark Hoppus
“In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."” KnowsWritingHumansPersonsDoeSometimesHappensBlackTermHuman BeingsWhiteSituationUniversalLike MeDescribingBlack White Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it gets bandied about a good bit) is that they don't write the "big" stories about "universal" or "worldly" concepts...Jesus. Um, when we do? We get told to get back in the kitchen and bedroom - go back to writing about love-y wife-y mother-y things.” WritingStoriesBigsMotherJesusBitsCommonWifeConceptsCriticismUniversalNovelistsKitchenGet BackIronicLoadBedroomCrapWorldlyAmerican Woman Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals.” HeartChildrenTogetherForceLove IsAnimalUniversalGravitySolar SystemSmall Child Author:Christiane Northrup
“To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.” WayEmotionalReaderSceneProveUniversalAssumingTendernessSophisticated Author:Akhil Sharma
“I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.” PeopleHappensFilmWatchesHeardUniversalBoundsCinemaWorking ItMuseumsFestivalsAcademia Author:Lav Diaz
“I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.” WorldSometimesUniversal Author:Fred Melamed
“I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldWellsUseSongGrewGrew UpUniversalInternationalDetailsCornersOfferingAvenuesTouringFranklinMinneapolis Author:Craig Finn
“You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.” ThinkingKnowsSchoolSongGirlUniversalHearingSongwritersThat Girl Author:Craig Finn
“I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.” WantGivingYearsStillsFeelingsRememberSongFeltHeardUniversalGive MeFamiliarSubconsciousRemember WhenWombGospel MusicGospel Songs Author:M. Ward
“What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."” WritingTryingHumansSufferingGriefIssuesPoetUniversalBoringMeaningfulTendenciesTackling Author:Fady Joudah
“In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.” HumansReasonCharacterBitsMy OwnSorrowAspectUniversalIronyAbsurdityHuman ExperienceVulgaritySillinessWork Humor Author:Anthony Marra
“The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.” HumansSeemsGoalChanceToughUniversalObviousSwimTough Things Author:Leigh Newman
“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?” ThinkingLongStatesPhilosophySchoolFourReadyMajorsLong TimeUniversalUniversityEightyLong Time AgoSystematicBrooks Author:Richard Meltzer
“I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsArtStillsFeelingsNaturalPiecesFrontsShapesUniversalScriptsSensibility Author:eL Seed
“I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.” ThinkingIndividualTermMoralPositionTruth IsUniversalInjusticeBoundariesEthicalSurroundPalestineIdentification Author:Elia Suleiman
“Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.” IfsWorldWantFilmJudgingAmbitionCrossesUniversalNotionChecksLocalsFamiliarLike MeBordersCinemaPalestineRight PlaceFamiliar Places Author:Elia Suleiman
“Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What I think my contribution is, what I do well, is I name experiences that are very universal that no one really talks about. That's the researcher in me; that's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. That's the researcher part.” PeopleThinkingWellsNamesViewsMillionsTheoryConceptsUniversalContributionGroundedResearchers Author:Brené Brown
“I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.” ThinkingLooksI CanBookDifferentStoriesAbleFormUniversalHopefullyComicComic BookPrimalRetellingSpecifics Author:Kimberly Peirce
“I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.” ThinkingWayWould BeCareUniversalIncreaseTradeHealth CareAgreementMinimumStraightforwardOpposingMinimum WageReceptivityTrade AgreementsNaftaUniversal Health Care Author:Russ Feingold
“Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.” DrugUniversalMonstersVersionsGenreClassicFriendlyLooking BackLightersGateways Author:Bryan Fuller
“Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.” ThinkingWantShouldYearsKindCountryBigsWould BeFightingGoalMistakePathShareAchieveShould HaveUniversalDebateOur CountryProgressiveHealthcareSenatorsWant UStarting OverPlungeGreat MistakesContentious Author:Hillary Clinton
“There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.” EndsCareUniversalHealth CareDisagreementCoverage Author:Hillary Clinton
“I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.” ThinkingCareJobsStrongPresidentEconomyProgressElementsUniversalPaidIncomeHealth CareRisingAgendasOfferingCoverageStrong EconomyUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.” CareCompanyDrugUniversalHealth CareVengeanceCoverageInsurance CompaniesDrug CompaniesUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“Mahar-jji used to say 'wherever the Satsang gets together, I am there', kind of echoing Jesus' statement: wherever two or more of you get together in my name, I am there. So Maharaj-ji was a universal part of the spirit in that way. He's always with me, here. He's with whoever is with him. Not only just me.” WayKindTwoTogetherUsedSpiritJesusNamesUniversalStatementsGet TogetherSatsang Author:Surya Das
“I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.” MindBelieveAtheismUniversalLegendsFables Author:Francis Bacon
“There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.” InterestingQualityVirtueModelsUniversalTransformationCurrentsReally InterestingIncapacity Author:Rem Koolhaas
“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.” WellsImportantFormPoliticalCertainPrinciplesViolenceGroupsExamplePerspectiveUniversalInjusticeLeagueDefenceSuperpowerIslamists Author:Alison Assiter
“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveMayImportantEndsPoliticalI BelieveSidesConceptsToolsUniversalAbuseFlawsSpectrumCritiquePolitical Spectrum Author:Alison Assiter
“The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. There is a partly biological basis for this identification. The 'nature' of woman may be conceptualised in the early Greek sense of a force or a power, in its turn shaped by forces outside it, rather than in terms of some set of properties.” MayImportantTurnsForceTermExistenceDoubtUniversalBasesPropertyDenyGreekNo DoubtShiftingIdentification Author:Alison Assiter
“Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.” ImportantFormPerspectiveUniversalRecogniseUniversalism Author:Alison Assiter
“Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.” WorldNeedsImportantFacesPerspectiveUniversalDividedUnjust Author:Alison Assiter
“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.” IfsWayWellsSeemsLanguageMusic IsUnderstoodUniversalAdagesUniversal LanguageReally True Author:William Fitzsimmons
“I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.” KnowsWantGovernmentStrongTermEconomyUniversalReformChineseVery StrongChinese GovernmentStrong Economy Author:Jamie Dimon
“I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.” KnowsWellsMeanDoeHateUniversalI HateFinancialClientsTraveler Author:Jamie Dimon
“If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.” IfsWantGivingI CanProductsUniversalFinancialEightFasterCorporationsServingSomething BetterCheaperFinancial Services Author:Jamie Dimon
“We're trying to win business by doing a good job for the clients, as opposed to, "We think being big and universal is just a great, wonderful thing." It's not a morality thing. It's a "Does it work for the client?" thing. Everything we do is because a client uses us. Everything we do is because a client chose to use us of his own free volition.” ThinkingTryingDoeUseBigsJobsWinningWonderfulMoralityUniversalClientsGood JobWonderful ThingsVolition Author:Jamie Dimon
“I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.” WritingSpiritualPrinciplesStudentsUniversalTheology Author:Marianne Williamson
“You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.” SituationUniversalTruthful Author:Will Smith
“Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.” ImportantAmericaTechnologyGeniusDegreesMachinesUniversalInnovationOriginalsBritishContributionDaddyMachineryInventorCompetentWhitneyConcededTrue Genius Author:Charles R. Morris
“Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.” HugeUniversalWesternCostumesWardrobe Author:Sally Field
“It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentInterestingUniversalAppealsDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsHolmesWatson Author:Jude Law
“People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.” PeopleNeedsIdeasReligiousUniversalEthicalDoorways Author:Mitch Horowitz