Emerging Quotes

• The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Church
  • Christ
  • Lordship

• All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Forget
  • Floating
  • Shipwreck

• Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Environment
  • Journey
  • Determined

• Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Health
  • Adventure
  • Timelessness

• The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

  

  Mohamed El-Erian
  • Growth
  • Dynamics
  • Industrial

• We're really our own culture, and I think that's going to set us apart from the other purely restaurant connected casino concepts that are emerging. We have a very loyal following; millions go through our stores in a monthly basis. I just don't think they (other restaurant operators) have the culture and the following that we have because of our sports involvement and the Hooters Girls.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Connected

• In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

  

  David Alan Harvey
  • Spirit
  • Photographer
  • Shooting

• So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Remove
  • Inconvenience
  • Examines

• Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Control
  • Guide
  • Emerging

• I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

  

  William Stafford
  • Experience
  • Embrace
  • Butterfly

• The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Communities
  • Emerging
  • Manifests

• Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Attention
  • Emerging
  • Surrendering

• Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Song

• If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Monsters
  • Soviet
  • Emerging

• Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Opposition
  • Armies
  • English Speaking

• When I look back over some of the most high-profile things we’ve done recently at The Guardian I see an interesting pattern emerging – a form of collaborative journalism that I can best describe as a mutualised newspaper.

  

  Alan Rusbridger
  • Journalism
  • Emerging
  • Collaborative

• As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.

  

  David Burnett
  • Important
  • Everyday
  • Missing

• I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

  

  William Gibson
  • Technology
  • Emerging
  • Saddened

• I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • War
  • Tree
  • Veteran

• I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Voice
  • Common
  • Discovering

• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Bodies
  • Emerging
  • Packs

• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  

  Brad Gooch
  • Work
  • Road
  • Writer

• The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

  

  Kathryn Flett
  • Influence
  • Print
  • Journalists

• You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Answer

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