Top 100 Generating Quotes
#1. People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
Steven Soderbergh
#2. As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu's death was not a profit-generating enterprise.
Katherine Boo
#3. Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.
Tristram Stuart
#4. There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily
#5. I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.
Michael Burgess
#6. The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
Ellen Tauscher
#7. Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
Muhammad Yunus
#8. Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.
Barry Nalebuff
#9. It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy.
Angela Carter
#10. Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Alexis Carrel
#11. I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
Barbara Kingsolver
#12. Don't be picky about whether each piece of content is generating leads. Just create as much value as you can for the most amount of people in your chosen community.
Dan Norris
#13. I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#15. Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done ... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
Rachel Nichols
#16. We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
John Naisbitt
#17. Horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And ultimately, we must face up to it: Horror is more real than we are.
Thomas Ligotti
#18. So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist ... If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.
Thomas L. Friedman
#19. I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.
Anne Rice
#20. If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
James O'Shaughnessy
#21. The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative imagination rather than the image-generating faculty), personal (experiential) and factual memory, reasoning and selfconsciousness.
P.M.S. Hacker
#22. The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.
Michael S. Horton
#23. If you want to use your full amount of steam, you must close your valves and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one end. Center your mind on one purpose, one plan, one transaction.
William Walker Atkinson
#24. In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.
John Ralston Saul
#25. Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Pope Paul VI
#26. God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called "human grace." Somewhere along the way, we've lost sight of this.
Eric Weiner
#27. I have NEVER worked with a better lead generating company! Thank You Zillow.
Spencer Rascoff
#28. What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
Dalai Lama
#29. I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
James MacArthur
#30. When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.
Rhianna Pratchett
#31. I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Jason Calacanis
#33. When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
A.B. Simpson
#34. The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or bottoms of barrels being scraped.
Richard Dawkins
#35. generating enough heat to, in effect, broil the surface of the planet.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#36. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
Charles Stross
#38. At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#39. strong ideas block the recollection of other information. This phenomenon is a big problem when a group sets itself the task of generating creative solutions.
Anonymous
#40. The computer is really good for editing your ideas, and it's really good for getting your ideas ready for publishing out into the world, but it's not really good for generating ideas.
Austin Kleon
#41. Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
Daisaku Ikeda
#42. Don't even try to count all the colors of spring. God's pallet keeps generating new hues.
Toni Sorenson
#43. Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Ronald A. Fisher
#44. The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.
Steven Magee
#45. We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.
Lester R. Brown
#46. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
Ronald A. Heifetz
#47. A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco
#48. The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
Gavin Newsom
#49. In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.
Bill Bryson
#50. Deriving truth from joy may be far more
easier than generating joy from the truth.
Toba Beta
#51. Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
Johan Norberg
#52. I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.
Prabal Gurung
#53. We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.
Lindsey Graham
#54. A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.
Christopher Hitchens
#55. I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow wordlessly generating volumes of desire like some kind of sublanguage that makes you want to splash into it even with all its tensions.
David Wojnarowicz
#56. Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
Brent Sexton
#57. It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
Frederick Lenz
#58. It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Brian Aldiss
#59. The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
David Leavitt
#60. A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.
Carl Jung
#61. What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it's our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights a fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons' metabolic furnaces to forging the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.
John J. Ratey
#62. They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
Rick Smolan
#63. Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.
Ken Wilber
#64. We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.
Joseph J. Romm
#66. Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.
Pearl Zhu
#67. Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
Eraldo Banovac
#68. Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
Jon Brion
#69. I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
Ariel Pink
#70. Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.
Dan Harmon
#71. I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
Michael Gove
#72. Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Eric Hobsbawm
#73. We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
Paul Ryan
#74. Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
William Zinsser
#75. Simply said, one is contingent through and through, partaking of being rather than generating it out of some source within oneself; and the same is true of the whole intricate web of interdependencies that constitutes nature.
David Bentley Hart
#76. I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.
Olafur Eliasson
#77. If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#78. We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.
Fred Wilson
#79. In Freud's theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant, phallus-favoring, social organization of powers, bodies, and symbols.
Jonathan Ned Katz
#80. Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.
Jon Oringer
#81. APM's core purpose of creating innovative new products and services means dealing with constant technological and competitive change, generating novel ideas, and continually reducing product development schedules.
Jim Highsmith
#82. The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.
Denise Kiernan
#83. History is replete with rulers who maintained stability at the cost of justice, humanity and morality. Everyone from Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein to Muammar Gaddafi managed productive economies, sophisticated bureaucracies and large populations whilst simultaneously generating simmering dissent.
Sidin Vadukut
#84. Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey
#85. A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
Herbert Wilf
#86. Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
Adam M. Grant
#87. A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.
Aurora Guerrero
#88. Remember, we are always responsible for what we attract in our life because we are the only ones generating our Energy frequency.
Mitesh Khatri
#89. Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
Benjamin Franklin
#90. A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.
Marty Neumeier
#91. When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
Gabrielle Aplin
#92. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.
Jane Jacobs
#93. Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.
Bharath Mamidoju
#94. People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
Sunidhi Chauhan
#95. This is the way for us to grow. I hope that the Lord will speak to you concerning your growth, that your growth in life is with the fourth-day lights. The first-day light was good for generating life, good for your rebirth. But, for your growth in life you need the fourth-day lights.
Witness Lee
#96. The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
George W. Bush
#97. But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.
Edward Jenks
#98. Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style ... Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.
Michael Mauboussin
#99. We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
Wendell H. Ford
#100. In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Nina Fedoroff
