Generations Quotes - Page 21

• Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

  David Finckel

  Art, Communication, Commitment

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• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  David Finckel

  Ideas, Years, People

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• Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life. I think in a lot of ways unions aren't necessary anymore, because what they were started for, I think a lot of those conditions don't exist. And this union is so odd, because any sort of fight we do in this union is not for us, it's for future generations.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Fighting, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: deadline.com

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• Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  Love, Girl, Boys

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• It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the new anti-Semitism. What they have in common is that in all versions, Jews are seen as absolute evil.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Religious, Evil, Today

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When you hit the things that are relevant to the next generation, - it's a way for young people to feel like "Somebody understands me. Church is not irrelevant. I feel that my hurts are being addressed. Things that I am concerned about are being talked about."

  Patricia Mauceri

  Hurt, People, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

  Bill Nye

  War, People, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

  Dan Ariely

  Country, Jobs, Kids

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia.

  Gabe Polsky

  Team, Hockey, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Forgiving, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Men, Ideas

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• In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Running, Differences, Long

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• Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

  Winston Churchill

  Different, Trials, World

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• For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

  Galileo Galilei

  Noble, Earth, Etc

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Golf, Government, Score

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• . . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have -- and it is for this reason that arts go on for generation to generation in spite of the fact that Phidias has already carved and Homer has already sung. The creation, we are informed, was accomplished in seven days with Sunday off, but the recreation will never be accomplished because it is always accomplished anew for each generation of living men.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Sunday, Men

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• The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Book, Long

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, School, Thinking

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• Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Men, Two

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

  Steve Jobs

  Supportive, Valleys, Next

  "STEVE JOBS: The Biggest Mistake Apple Made After I Left Was Focusing On Profits Instead Of Products..." by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 23, 2011.

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• What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Entrepreneur, Adults

  "'You've Got to Find What You Love,' Jobs Says". Commencement address at Stanford, news.stanford.edu. June 12, 2005.

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• We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into space to be incorporated into later stars. The Sun is probably a third generation star.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Space, Atoms

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• Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

  Ralph Nader

  Worry, Despair, Trying

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• There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Opportunity, Expectations, Failing

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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• I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Real, Able, Next

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