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“As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.”

Trying Littles Long Seems Views Situation Environment Becoming Approach Concerned Tragedy Stuck Pessimistic

Author:Frans de Waal

“What I love about the environment we live in and we work in, is that there are no boundaries anymore. We can do a lot of different things. It keeps us going.”

Different Can Do Environment Boundaries Different Things No Boundaries

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like your failing or that you're doing it wrong.”

Thinking Feels Trying Environment Failing Like You Directors Safe Temper Instill Safe Environment

Author:Luke Evans

“I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.”

Writing Culture Environment Seeing New Things Provoking New Thought New Cultures Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Josh Radnor

“I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.”

Feels Two Environment Grew Comfortable Grew Up Female Two Sisters

Author:Josh Radnor

“It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that the hardest thing about working is not working, because you go from one of the most structured environments in the world to a place of no structure. Maybe that's why you see someone go from movie to movie to movie.”

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Author:Jason Schwartzman

“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.”

Three Natural Principles Environment Progress Produce Creatures Climate Productions Locals Factors Cosmic Selection Adaptation Inheritance Variation Natural Selection Habitat

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.”

Ifs Children Happens Environment Destruction Our Children Terrorist Destroying Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:Jane Goodall

“I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.”

Needs Long Art Stills I Can Next Can Do My Own Steps Environment Benefits Long Time Accomplish Relax Long Time Ago Next Steps

Author:Jack White

“It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.”

“As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.”

Artist Environment Style Coming Out Our Environment

Author:Jack White

“The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.”

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Author:Pete Lembo

“What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.”

People Important Environment Conditions Innocent Combination Phenomenon Chemistry Punk

Author:Siouxsie Sioux

“My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.”

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Author:John M. McHugh

“Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.”

Mind Body Environment Higher Resolution Maintaining Cleanliness

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”

“Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment”

Environment Surgery Courteous Stabbing

Author:A.L. Kennedy

“Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.”

“I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.”

Believe Humans Art Form I Believe Natural Space Cities Environment Streets Century Performances I Believe In Diverse 21st Century Art Dance Street Life

Author:Antony Gormley

“It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.”

Kind Different Whole Actors Environment Exercise

Author:Katy Mixon

“I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.”

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Author:Beau Garrett

“Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.”

Way Needs Humans Persons Spirit Situation Environment Imagine Creating Organization Serving Human Spirit Connecting Our Environment Nonviolent Communication Interacting Interacting With Others

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.”

Stills Happens Fun Stuff Environment Car Rain Environmental Bike Enjoyable Stuff Happens Fun Stuff

Author:Stone Gossard

“As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.”

“Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.”

People Men Should Speak Term Views Taken Environment Poet Accounts Point Of View Great Men Nationality Englishmen

Author:Albert Einstein

“I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.”

Beautiful Environment Planets Concerned Psychological Psychological Health

Author:Cornel Wilde

“The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.”

Needs Important Environment Protect Priorities Protect The Environment

Author:Lily Cole

“It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and "Touch this, that, and the other," it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.”

Ifs Hard Actors Stuff Enjoy Environment Too Much Chairs Tolerate Stressful

Author:Paddy Considine

“Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.”

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Author:T. J. Jackson Lears

“Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.”

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Author:Christofer Drew

“Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.”

Mean Self Hard Motivation Environment Effects Self Esteem Hard Work Program Perseverance Esteem Traits Intervention Adverse

Author:James Heckman

“There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with conviction and with religious beliefs, because those are immutable. But we need a new discourse that will be adapted to a new world and which will remove some of the misconceptions.”

World Needs Belief Religious Environment Conflict Conviction Remove New World Discourse Misconception Adapted Religious Belief

Author:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

“It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.”

Children Play School Social Environment Masters Skills Warm Critical Attractive Formal Spend Time Schooling Social Skills

Author:Michael Gove

“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.”

Science Environment Mouths Leaving Population Atmosphere Damage Habitat Illiteracy Unprepared

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.”

People Want Children Said Today Used Class Taken Environment Middle Morality Our Children Used To Be Your Children Smoking Middle Class Sentiments Replaced Homosexual Smokers

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

“Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”

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Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.”

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Book:Turning Points

Source: Turning Points

“I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.”

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Author:Jennifer Granholm

“Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.”

Want Friendship Environment Violent Organisms Shields

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.”

Mother Environment Air Gray Pollution Mother Nature Air Pollution

Author:Irv Kupcinet

“...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.”

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Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.”

Men Environment Land Forests Hills Beach Lanes Stigma Meadows Debris

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”

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Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.”

Helping Environment Factors Hinder

Book:The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

“A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.”

Ifs Spirit Leadership Chance Business Environment Risk Organization Corporations Ceo Chances Are Risk-taking

Book:The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur