People asked me, ‘Why aren’t you doing something more important?’ When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, ‘Why can’t you get an NBA job? Or a college job?’ I don’t think people thought much of what I was doing. That’s fine. I was learning. Not just X’s and O’s, but team dynamics.
The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what’s been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what’s popular at the movies is popular because of what’s going on in the world at that moment.
‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It’s hard to beat.
The Indian context is unique. The market is very large, and I believe there is enough room for many players to innovate on different parts of the transportation business. That said, if somebody just brings an American concept to India, it’ll only go so far. You have to build for the Indian needs and dynamics.
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.
I’m well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That’s something I’m cognizant of in running a successful campaign.
The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.
Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.
Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it’s the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we’re not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.
Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual – I would say, Christian – dynamics that are awesome.
I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.
When you’ve got good actors, they’re going to come up with good stuff, but you’re never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.
It’s people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ or ‘Lost’ or ‘The Sopranos.’ It’s the people we’ve grown to love or otherwise.
Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.
I think Nintendo is fortunate, having been in this business for over 30 years, to really understand the dynamics and recognize that it’s software that drives hardware, and it’s new, unique, compelling experiences within software that make it stand out.
The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you’ve got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you’ve written.
In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
If you look at any sitcom that you watch, if it takes place in, say, a small town in Massachusetts, and it’s about the dynamics of the people in that town, the showrunner probably grew up in a town like that, witnessed things, and created content.
I think it’s really hard being in a boy band. There’s a lot of dynamics.
Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone’s life.
There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
‘Cake’ is a simple, almost traditional and relatable story, that highlights family values and intimate relationship dynamics within a family.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
When you shoot a special, you have no idea what’s going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice. It was a game changer for me professionally.
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they’re also very opaque.
When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who’s observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.
Movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp are ample proof that perpetrators get away because it is hard for victims to speak up. Power dynamics and lack of support from colleagues and acquaintances does not help matters.
As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside.
A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual.
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We’re all fascinated by family dynamics, but I’d much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else’s problems!
The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for ‘perfect’ is going to be a mistake.
We don’t hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.
‘Greenleaf’ is nothing like ‘Empire.’ I think ‘Empire’ stands alone in what they are doing. It’s a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families – the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.
There is literally no one on earth who isn’t interested in relationship dynamics, or how to meet someone special. Or if they’ve already met someone special, how to make that relationship as good as it can be. It’s a universal subject.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It’s an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
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