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“A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.”

Feels Humans Soul Universe Term Human Beings Environment Wonderful Mystery Possibility Bigger Infinite Response Saint Deeper Contact Generous Stature Infinite Possibilities

Book:Lent With Evelyn Underhill

Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill

“Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.”

Knows Feels Lost Force United States Environment Praying Degrees Weather Panic Entitled Resent

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.”

Humans Environment Human Nature

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.”

Doe Spiritual Spirituality Attitude Environment Depends Circumstances Spiritual Life Mars Unfolding Attitude Towards Life

Book:The Spiritual Life

Source: The Spiritual Life

“You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.”

Littles Soul Together Wonder Environment Ego Singing Skins Cells Bags Organisms Dreary Symbiosis Singing Together Chorale

Author:Jean Houston

“I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.”

Thinking Made Stills Environment Thrown

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.”

People Needs Trying Helping Political Process Quality Company Environment Products Harder Philosopher Saddles Burrs

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Children Problem Kids Parent Environment Figures Involved Our Children Coaches Your Children More Time Nuggets

Author:Ray Lewis

“Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.”

Persons Made Bigs Today Culture Environment Hip Hop Hips Dancer Hops Ballet

Author:Misty Copeland

“We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.”

People Thinking Trying Situation Teach Environment Students Intellectual Curiosity Excitement Classroom Our Environment Always Trying Mba Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.”

Want Stories Song Environment Pieces Color Albums

Author:Jon Foreman

“The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”

“My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.”

Ifs Knows Running Able Company Worry Environment Figures Tough Strategy Workers Biggest Fear

Author:Paul Polman

“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.”

Kids School Hate Grows Creative Growing Up Environment Personality Towns Boring Bizarre

Author:Rob Zombie

“If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect our environment and that collective consciousness. The more people who are diving within and transcending and are getting that happiness and positivity, the better the world will be.”

People Ifs World Humans Human Beings Consciousness Environment Filled Positivity Collectives Our Environment Diving Transcending Collective Consciousness

Author:David Lynch

“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.”

Thinking Want Giving Real Play Reality Actors Stuff Environment Stage Happenings Green Screens Shooting Capture Real Stuff

Author:Michael Bay

“I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.”

People Thinking Giving Ideas Might Vision Environment Team Fashion Communicate

Author:Tom Ford

“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.”

Way Made Real Reality United States Environment Edges Versions Distinction Latter Friendly Users Defects Surrogates American Way Of Life User Friendly

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.”

“Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.”

Important Ideas Sometimes Light Black Space Environment Conditions Aspect Tests Fundamentals Extremes Holes Shed Time And Space Theoretical Laboratory Exotic Analyzing Black Hole

Author:Brian Greene

“I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.”

Thinking Wells Creative Environment Fields Mathematics Math Symbols Defined Operations Within You Up To You

Author:Brian Greene

“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.”

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Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”

“I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.”

Needs Use Goal Natural Technology Environment Productivity Our Environment Natural Environment

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.”

Made Success Environment Winner

Book:Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

“It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.”

World Life Moments Found Change Power Courage Environment Blame Misery Changing The World Our Environment Power To Change Muster Power To Change The World

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.”

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Author:Ellen Sturgis Hooper

“I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.”

Want Different Community Lines Numbers Business Environment Benefits Tough Bottom Financial Shops Employee Distribution Bottom Line Our Community Yardsticks Business Environment

Author:Anita Roddick

“No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.”

Needs Doe Matter Opportunity Understanding Nature Environment Cutting Circumstances Depth Wide Accidents

Author:Mary Webb

“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”

Trying Humans Art Energy Natural Loss Deals Environment Survival Disaster Get Away Catastrophe Natural Disaster

Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.”

Has Beens Problem Might Gone Environment Personality Anxiety Response Edges Surface Noise Dull Sparks Our Environment Stimulus Brilliance Irritating Responsiveness Living Once

Author:Indra Devi

“To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.”

Environment Products Succeed Losing Technique Hungry Superiors Selling

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.”

Ifs Use Consciousness Environment Advantage Aspect Avoiding Filling Our Environment Stimulus Tempting Undesirable

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.”

Environment Serious Products Benefits Impact Congress Farmers Engineering Framework Comprehensive Hazards Genetic Engineering

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.”

Environment Economic Behavior Our Environment Predatory

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?”

Ifs World Environment Climate Climate Change What If Hoaxes

Author:Naomi Klein

“It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.”

Hard Facts Reality Today Dies Environment Easier Climate Climate Change Deny Libertarian Height Worldview Shattered Climate Change Deniers

Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.”

Way Spiritual Hurt Environment

Author:Myrtle Reed

“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”

People Kind Persons Ends Care Faces Term Environment Dust Your Face Our Relationship Who Cares Our Environment Equilibrium Care For You

Book:Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

Source: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

“We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.”

World Use Jobs America Responsibility Poverty United States Environment Conflict Prosperity Partners Damage Fewer Good Job Adversaries Our Environment Shared Responsibility

Book:Hard Choices

Source: Hard Choices

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

Shows Order Growth Nature Community Economy Environment Healthy Smart Built Green Show Me Conservation Infrastructure Smart Growth

Author:Will Rogers

“The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.”

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.”

“The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.”

Ifs Left Nature Natural Healing Environment Wilderness Our Relationship Preservation Renewal Natural Environment

Author:Starhawk

“As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.”

People Doe Purpose Community Common Leader Vision Environment Wise Team Produce Soil Gardener Common Purpose Wise Leaders Common Vision

Author:Diane Dreher

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.”

War Lasts Environment Indian Environmentalist

Book:Ohitika Woman

Source: Ohitika Woman

“These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.”

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Author:Guity Novin

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