Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be 'othered' within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.

Canadian Actor

Phyllida Lloyd

If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

English Director

Himesh Patel

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

British Actor

Olga Tokarczuk

We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state of our own bodies, we do not know about this microcosm we have inside our skin.

Polish Writer

John Phillips

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

American Musician

Lou Holtz

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

American Coach

Alexandra C. Pelosi

San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.

American Journalist

Richa Chadha

Bollywood is a microcosm of society, it's no different from the world.

Indian Actress

Susanna Moore

The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.

American Writer

Howard Cosell

American Lawyer

Microcosm refers to something small representing a larger complexity.

Scale of Microcosm

Microcosm isn't restricted to physical spaces; it can be conceptual or situational.

Not Always Physical

Microcosms often capture diverse characteristics within a small frame.

Reflecting Diversity

Microcosm can show the importance or intensity of something on a smaller scale.

Used for Emphasis

A microcosm provides a glimpse or insight into a larger situation.

Observational Tool

Microcosm can illustrate diverse and complex elements in a simpler context.

Complexity in Miniature

Analyzing a microcosm can provide insights into the broader system it represents.

Used Analytically

 we're creating strong communities of tradeswomen as a microcosm for what we believe the industry needs at a macro level. We're filling their toolboxes with drills and saws and ferocity and joy. These are the young women who will go forth to build the world we all want to see.

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 to get any nectar as a reward there's one photo where the orchid just bounces out of the frame down and out of the frame up I'm like what in the world is going on and there's a little frog that was hanging off of it so you're getting like this window into this microcosm

Rare Ghost Orchid Has...

 self-definition happens African cities tend to firm a little more their identity and to illustrate that I think I'll switch to the market and the market has a space that is sort of is a microcosm for all of those energies that are at play in African cities

Design that’s in...

 this was our time. And I reminded myself a couple hours in, you know, the sport is sort of a microcosm of life itself. First of all, you're going to hit obstacles. And even though you're feeling great at any one moment, don't take it for granted, be ready,

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 longer have jobs that is a microcosm of what's happening not just in software and services but in media and music in finance and manufacturing in retailing and trade in short in every industry people are racing against the Machine

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 In fact, he invited me to explain myself. And I could've said many things. I could've explained, I could've negotiated. I didn't do any of that. All I did was run. I felt, wow, this is like a microcosm of my life.

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 You see, my parents encouraged sports because sports in their eyes was a microcosm of life. You learn to win. You learn to lose. You learn to work through obstacles. You learn to get up when you don't want to.

Candace Parker: How to...

 using secrets that only their grandmothers know. The food is incredible. Green School is a place of pioneers, local and global. And it's a kind of microcosm of the globalized world.

John Hardy: My green...

 their story is a microcosm of what's going on right across Africa tens of thousands of chimps are imprisoned in stretches of forest that can't support them they're forced into a

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 We failed both of them by not giving her anger the uptake and resolution that it deserved. Now that's a microcosm of a much bigger problem. Because culturally, worldwide,