Our Time Quotes - Page 19

• We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched in our careers. And, of necessity, we're earning a living, and it's taking our time, and we're building our résumé, and we want our résumé generally to be our proficiency within our field, because chances are we're going to be applying for another position within the field. So we tend to put off a lot of this sort of what I call parallel discovery until we're either very successful and have the time to do that, or more often until we're retired.

  Darold Treffert

  Successful, Discovery, Careers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Looks, Architect

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Color, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time.

  Hector Tobar

  Latin, Artist, America

  Source: www.slate.com

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• On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Grief, Hands

  Source: www.today.com

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• People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Mother, Pain, Drama

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.

  Bob Goff

  Sound, Different, Stuff

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• To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.

  Thomas Pogge

  Past, Average, Focus

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Humanity, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

  Howard Gardner

  Mean, Conversation, All Time

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Drama, Thinking, Years

  "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

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• Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

  David Graeber

  Half, Cash, Obsessed

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

  Alvar Aalto

  People, Knows

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• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  Renata Adler

  Sleep, Blessing, Boredom

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• The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sad, Suicide, Intention

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.141, Verso

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• We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

  Pearl Bailey

  Mirrors, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Pearl Bailey (1976). “Hurry up, America, & spit”, Harcourt

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• We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Aquariums, Suffering, Essentials

  "Interview with Cardinal Ratzinger". Interview with Raymond Arroyo, www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 5, 2003.

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• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

  John Berger

  Village, Emigration, Metropolis

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

  Lewis Black

  Summer, Believe, Talking

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

  Lisa Bonet

  Black, Prison, Latino

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

  Alain de Botton

  Communication, Ideas, Challenges

  "The School of Life: An Interview With Alain de Botton". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2016.

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• The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Spotlight, Singers

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• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  Luis Bunuel

  Depressing, Time, Alcohol

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• So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

  Tony Campolo

  Issues, Addresses, Scandal

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