“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.” WorldIdeasForceTermAbilityViewsEnvironmentProduceRevolutionLimitsGainsCrisisBillsDuesAccidentsFasterOutcomesGlobal WarmingLogicalOur WorldExploitationShort TermGreenhousesWorld ViewIndustrial RevolutionForces Of Nature Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.” IfsThinkingAbilityCreativityEnvironmentWrittenDetailsDesignerDescriptionMinimumPlaywrightInputPlaywriting Author:August Wilson
“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.” ProblemSoundVoiceAbilityEnvironmentMilitaryCommunicationTestsBackgroundsSuperiorsCodeSelectionNoisyPersonnel Author:M. H. Abrams
“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.” MenAbleActionIndividualAbilityEnvironmentInformationDependsFutureBehaviorFairsFlowBasesRationalDataOutcomesFedsSanityHinges Book:future shock Source: future shock
“Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.” NeedsEasyImaginationChallengesMemoriesAbilityEnvironmentToolsWineDrinkingGlassesVividGood MemoriesTastingDrinking WineTiltVivid Imagination Author:Marvin Shanken
“The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.” WorldWayArtHelpingAbilityEnvironmentBuiltFoundationCelebrateOur WorldAestheticNew WaysArt EducationBuilt Environment Author:James T. Hubbell
“Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.” DesireAbilityEnvironmentFireWheelsInherentOur EnvironmentDemonstrating Author:Aubrey de Grey
“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.” WorldAbilityEnvironmentInfluenceDevelopmentAppropriateSuitable Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.” UseAgeAbilityBrainEnvironmentShapesComputerMachinesMusclesDigitalEnginesOur EnvironmentSteamDescendantsMental PowerSteam Engines Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.” MenHumansFormProcessMemoriesAbilityDealsClassEnvironmentExampleDiversityPerceptionCapacityUniversalStrategyDetailsConfusionInstancePerceiveDiverseTypicalCognitionThought ProcessUniversal Truth Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
“If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.” IfsThinkingWorldWayAgeAbilityNumbersEnvironment Author:Andre Agassi
“As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.” ImaginationAbilityEnvironmentMaterialsToolsSpeciesWildernessMy ImaginationOur Environment Author:James Arthur
“A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.” ThinkingTurnsAbilityEnvironmentOrganizationMeetingsManagersAssets Author:Nancy Kline
“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.” KindDoneHouseAbilityWhiteEnvironmentPeriodsHealthyPressesClintonScriptsTechniqueAdministrationCorporateWhite HouseToxicMentalitySuspicionParallelsHostility Author:Ted Gup