“There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.” IdeasDifferentCharacterStuffEnvironmentInspireElementsDifferent ThingsThrowingWrong Ideas Author:John Lasseter
“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.” ArtSoulMatterInspirationReligiousAttitudeEnvironmentSubjectsElementsDrawsArt IsMiracleAncestorTangibleSubject Matter Author:Umberto Boccioni
“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.” SelfTogetherWinningIndividualEnvironmentTeamElementsStructureAgreementAccountabilityStewardshipGlueWin Win Book:First Things First Source: First Things First
“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.” IfsShouldMadeImportantPleasureCommonEnvironmentHonestParticularMetsOffersElementsSummerReflectionMarkWineFruitGlassesMade ItPerceiveAnalysisDisappointedFrustratedAssociatesHintsIndicationUsage Book:A Vineyard in My Glass Source: A Vineyard in My Glass
“The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.” ActionRomanceUsedSpaceExistenceEnvironmentWonderfulCreationElementsDenyIntegrationWonderful ThingsCelluloid Author:Andy Serkis
“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.” WorldRealSleepLevelsEnvironmentMagicAwarenessHigherElementsEatingFunctionDrinkingPossessionCaringAllowingSoarOur EnvironmentHigher LevelPawns Author:Wayne Dyer
“In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine system, through imagination, visualization, breathing techniques, which in a sense come into the scientific aspects. So magic is a combination, its a soup, a delightful combination of art, imagination, visualization, fantasy, with a healthy dose of solid basis, because it is a science. The thing is we've lost the keys.” BelieveArtI CanCertainLostI BelieveImaginationFantasyEnvironmentMagicKeysHealthyElementsAspectBasesTechniqueCombinationBreathingSoupDelightfulDoseVisualization Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.” WorldWayHumansEnvironmentElementsConnectionsInspiredDrivenMeaningfulLivelyHuman Connection Author:David Rockwell
“If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to have a very specific location in mind. The physical environment of where the opera takes place is very key - the "sound world."” IfsWorldMindLooksSoundEnvironmentKeysElementsOperaButterflyLocation Author:Jake Heggie
“You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.” PeopleWayHumansMayFeelingsCertainEnvironmentOur LivesCarElementsMachinesHorseNeglect Author:Albert Einstein
“Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.” ThinkingWayMayMeanDifferentSoundNaturalSpaceQualityEnvironmentElementsHarderEnvironmentalAtmosphereDifferent WaysDestructiveStillnessInherentHarshAmbient Author:Bill Laswell
“I've got a bunch of circuit-bent boxes and things that are controlled by my Mac through a big breakout box. I want to create this total environment where I can bring all this gear to the show but maybe just use one or two elements, if that's what's called for.” IfsWantI CanTwoUseShowsBigsEnvironmentElementsBoxesBunchControlledBentGearsMacsCircuits Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.” SchoolOpportunityIndividualSocialBornEnvironmentGroupsBalanceOfficeElementsVariousContactLimitationSocial GroupsSocial Environment Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.” HumansArtCultureReligiousHuman BeingsCreativityEnvironmentElementsDirectFunctionSacredLeisureInnateArtifactsLeisure TimeSacred Art Author:Michael Ventura
“I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.” HumansEnvironmentComedyExerciseDespairBehaviorElementsEverydayVicesDenyStupidityPsychologicalReformMake SenseWildernessDaily LifeSense Of HumorToxicUrbanHuman BehaviorAttemptingDelightedMallsBlundersMaliciousScapes Author:James Howard Kunstler
“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” KnowsWaterEnvironmentOne ThingElementsFishesPerceive Author:Marshall McLuhan