Radically Quotes

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that’s radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I’m still just playing a good bit.

I saw so many radically different versions of Iraq. It would have been difficult for me to come back and think, ‘This is the Iraq experience.’

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that’s not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it’s plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.

While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

You can radically change a person’s life with a tune. I don’t think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

If we assume the best in people, we can radically redesign our democracy and welfare states.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her ‘test tube‘ conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven‘t radically altered our world.

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

I’ve lived in New York when I’ve had nothing, and I’ve lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It’s the texture of life.

I’m a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don’t look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He’s way, way out, doing things you never expect.

The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It’s become a lot more democratic in one respect, but in another respect there’s no one left to guide and mentor young bands.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

It’s difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn’t showboating.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don’t live near a train track, it’s hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it – in collaboration with key health system partners – and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.

The luxury industry is being radically reshaped by technology-driven innovation.

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That’s because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Etsy radically simplified and amended their policies. Sellers of handmade goods can now hire as much help as they need to run their shops. They can apply to sell designs they produce with the help of outside businesses.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

There’s some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I’ve never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I’m in.

First impressions matter. Most people don’t change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time – the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. And if I cannot the sovereignty back, then I will ask the French people to leave the E.U.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I’m just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

We created Lyft because we want to establish a radically different concept of personal transportation. We want people to think of transportation as a service enabled by technology instead of as an expensive and large piece of hardware to own.

By the way, if you ever watch Prince Harry on a panel or giving a talk, you can tell that as royals go, he’s comparatively normal, and I think that’s largely because he had a workplace experience with people with radically different social backgrounds.

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn’t lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Michigan is two radically different places – the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven’t been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

The environment doesn’t change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

In terms of being typecast, if you do something like Father Ted that infiltrates the public‘s imagination to the extent that it did, I think realistically you’re not going to be asked to do something radically different from that very often. But it’s not a problem.

I’m a naturally open person – some might say radically open.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat of nuclear war declined radically, they found a new vehicle for their secular apocalypse in the form of climate change.

The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

I don’t believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that’s dishonest. For example, I’m not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don’t, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Cities simply don’t have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

I’ve got kids now; it changes you radically.

I was influenced very much by St. Francis of Assisi, whose idea was to radically live the gospel. He was not a priest, or even a brother. He was a layperson. His whole concept was to emulate Christ through the gospels, and to live it in a radical way.

On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Consumer preferences for food have changed… Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.

The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they’re radically different.

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children’s books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

I want to work on things that aren’t self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mortality says to us that here’s a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

That’s what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground – to radically experiment and find out. I’ve seen the light.

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

More than any other instrument, the relationship between an acoustic guitar and a microphone is super-important. The kind of mics that you use and your placement of the mics to the guitar can radically alter your sound.