It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
When I’m at home, I am in full Dad mode, and I love it.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
I try to be a positive person, but I’m also always looking and wondering, ‘Maybe this could be done differently.’ As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you’re halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you’re already halfway through a solution.
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people’s own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It’s an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn’t prosperity.
I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.
We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world’s first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that’s OK – I mean, it led me to where I am.
I’m not usually in a talkative mode.
Some consider bicycling an ‘alternative’ mode of transportation, but it should not be considered alternative. It should be an easy choice for getting around in our City, and we need to do more to make that a reality.
I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just – I was blinded. I wasn’t healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode – to fight.
I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector – go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States – I may have been here less than 24 hours – but I knew I would never get inside there. And ‘there’ not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man’s original savage nature.
Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there’s no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don’t panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that’s an established mode.
When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.
Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn’t ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.
There is a worst part, and it is this: we spend more time with each other than we do with our wives and children, and we work very long hours – we work non-stop – so when we need to shut off, we need to be separate, or else we – or else we just slip into our work mode.
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.
When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I’m still stuck in that mode.
I’m the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I’m non-stop.
A lot of people say, ‘OK, I’m overweight, so I’m not going to eat any food; I’m only going to have an apple a day,’ but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you’ve got to do is increase your metabolism.
I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let’s say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
It’s the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that’s all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late ’80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone’s default mode.
God mode is something that I’ve always tried to unlock within myself.
I write most of my stuff when I’m on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because you hear this motoric rhythm and the scenery is great. You go into your own little world. You don’t have to be anywhere else.
As comedians, we all get into that mode of thinking of the worst thing imaginable – but you usually have the ability to pull back before releasing it to the world.
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture’s primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They’re immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
Here’s the thing that people don’t understand: I don’t really care. I’ve never been a careerist. It’s not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.
We knew what was going on with Spygate. We were in football mode, and it didn’t impact our day-to-day. There’s so much noise on the outside – ‘You’re cheaters, you’re this, you’re that’ – but the easiest way to settle that is to go 18-0 and go to the Super Bowl.
