Concern Quotes - Page 11

• When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Winning, Differences, President

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• Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Caring, Environmental, Making Money

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• Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Environmental

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• I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

  Lisa Gardner

  Book, Numbers, Answers

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• Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

  Justin Amash

  Issues, Accountability, Care

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• With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

  Paul Allen

  People, Asking, Done

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• It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

  Atom Egoyan

  Shooting, Mystery, Process

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Sobriety, Capacity

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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Australia, Tails

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  Edie Falco

  Interesting, Want, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Tired, Long, Kicking

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Children, Parent, Financial

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  People, Protect

  "'Athens Is Not Broke'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. May 23, 2011.

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• The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Real, Real Questions

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• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  Ma Jian

  Writing, Important, Able

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.

  Marvin Bower

  Genuine Concern, Ideas, People

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.131, Harvard Business Press

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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• There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Character, Actors, Boring

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• Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.

  Alexei Navalny

  Believe, Artist, Issues

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• Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

  David Limbaugh

  Campaigns, Mccain, Models

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• My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

  Daniel Pipes

  Careers, Two, Political

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.

  Rob Portman

  Issues, People, Together

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• I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

  Tom Perrotta

  Past, Years, Novelists

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