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  • Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

    "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.
  • I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

    Kings   Pulse   Firsts  
    FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 16, 2013
  • We're a superpower with a third world grid.

    World   Grids   Thirds  
    "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2003.
  • There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  • The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

    Annie Dillard (1982). “Living by fiction”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

    Car   Computer   Grids  
  • China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

    Russia   Iran   Korea  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the same way. We just try to endure and press on, I guess.

    Source: www.readings.com.au
  • The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

    May   Emotion   Grids  
    Jack Welch (2014). “Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people”, p.143, Hachette UK
  • The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it...Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.

    Thinking   Wind   Energy  
  • Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

    Book   Way   Grids  
  • One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities - and we have to do that immediately - including to our power grid, our communications system, and all vital infrastructure.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

    Men   Space   Sky  
  • I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.

    Thinking   Light   Fog  
    Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.
  • t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

    Hydrogen   Energy   Peers  
    "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.

    Country   House   Energy  
  • ... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

    Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.104, Souvenir Press
  • I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.

    Thinking   Guy   Desire  
    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

    Saws   Firsts   Influence  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

  • Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

    Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

    Cds   Interesting   Alive  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

    Keys   Government   Long  
  • Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  • Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

    Swings   Way   Grids  
    "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz's Past by Investing in Its Future". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2011.
  • I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

  • Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

    Mean   Iran   Korea  
  • The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

    Jobs   Smart   Home  
    ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.
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