Charles Lemert Quotes
“The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn—often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling—to realize that, just as often, one’s personal troubles are in fact public issues.”
Quotes to Explore
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.
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Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.
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When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
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But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
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“The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn—often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling—to realize that, just as often, one’s personal troubles are in fact public issues.”
