Next Generation Quotes - Page 15

• I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.

  Nas

  Song, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

  Michael Strahan

  Football, Play, Goal

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• We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Innovation, Needs, Generations

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• I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Impact, Issues

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Men, Circles

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.120

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• Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Views, Sea, Passing On

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• I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Attitude

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

  George P. Baker

  Past, Practice, Judging

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• We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

  Jane Seymour

  People, Effort, Next

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• These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

  Erik Erikson

  Responsibility, Caring, Years

  Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick (1994). “Vital Involvement in Old Age”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

  Will Wright

  Xbox, Games, Generations

  "Q&A: Will Wright, creator of the Sims". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. Ocotber 26, 2007.

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• Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we're constantly improving. It's kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.

  James Cameron

  Running, Race, Car

  "James Cameron Interview, Sanctum". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. February 2011.

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• I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Writing, Needs, Next

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• Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

  Vinod Khosla

  Medicine, Entrepreneur, Malaria

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  Callie Khouri

  Girl, Stars, Years

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• Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Hands, Generations, Today

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

  Dhani Harrison

  Kids, People, Supportive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.

  Judd Gregg

  Country, Children, Government

  "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

  Luis Fortuno

  Country, Fighting, Generations

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• Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Growing Up, Powerful, Generations

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• Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

  Hermann Weyl

  Teaching, Math, Creative

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

  Wangari Maathai

  Skills, Role Models, Generations

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Mean, Years, Practice

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• Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Block, Hands, Generations

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• If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Stupid, People, Support

  National Day Rally, 1983.

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