In The World Quotes

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

There's a problem of terrorism in the world. There's always been terrorism. There will be terrorism. You have to deal with it surgically. You have to deal with it in a serious way.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

No critic ever changed the world.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.