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“Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.”

Seems Environment Racism Incredibles I Realized Racist Considering Outrage

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.”

People Thinking Littles Environment Cost Ambition Solutions Gains Desperate Pathetic Our Environment Little Time Misuse Betterment Bickering

Author:Dave Matthews

“It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.”

Speak Easy Sound Term Issues Environment Our Lives Truth Is Threat Insane Internals Communist Engines Layers Our Environment Speaks Out Combustion Ozone Ozone Layer

Author:Bill Maher

“My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.”

People Thinking Government Might Environment Involved Terrorism Kill Me

Author:Bill Maher

“I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.”

Thinking Way Trying Guy Games Winning Individual Fun Environment Grew Approach Grew Up Reflection Whatever It Takes Staging Fun Loving

Author:Dave Parker

“I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.”

People Evil Environment Grew Republican Grew Up Democrat Supposed To Be Racist Detroit Evil People

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.”

May Made Fun Environment Modern Structure Sticks Myth Mythology Monsters Modern Day

Author:Rick Riordan

“You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.”

People Way Giving Creativity Environment Curiosity Injection

Author:Ken Robinson

“Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.”

Party Environment Healthy Green Committed Green Party Healthy Environment

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.”

People Environment Fronts Letting Go Studios

Author:Stephen Stills

“If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.”

Ifs World Children Spiritual Values Growth Environment Personality Characteristics Revelations Spiritual Growth Astonishing Betterment Intrinsic Value

Book:Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori

Source: Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori

“The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.”

Environment Fallen

Author:Craig Venter

“The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”

Children Made Environment Teacher Special Activity Tasks Series Motive Montessori

Author:Maria Montessori

“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”

Knows May Different Form Lost Bits Environment Information Disappear Confused

Author:Leonard Susskind

“All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.”

People Knows Way Want Earth Environment Connections Curious Loyal Stubborn Surroundings Respectful

Author:Francisco Costa

“I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.”

Thinking Men Want Social Sports Issues Environment Gay Males Inviting Gay Men

Author:David Stern

“I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.”

Ifs Believe Environment Our Family Translate Better Life Our Environment

Author:Candice Olson

“In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.”

Way Needs Interesting Powerful Environment Members Species Vulnerable Destructive Fragile

Author:Andrew Motion

“It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.”

Years Easy Environment Events Appearing Dublin Making A Living Aspiring Writers

Author:John Boyne

“Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.”

Opportunity Social Challenges Environment Unique University Architecture Campus Princeton Opportunities And Challenges Princeton University

Author:Steven Holl

“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.”

World Way Art Helping Ability Environment Built Foundation Celebrate Our World Aesthetic New Ways Art Education Built Environment

Author:James T. Hubbell

“I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Important Might Able Together Term Environment

Author:Desiree Rogers

“Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Important Social Environment Signals Email Filters Spam Graphs

Author:Clay Shirky

“Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.”

People Inspiration Purpose Artist Party Environment Special Design Poet Discipline Originals Musical Albums Enjoyment Composer Bob Balanced Spontaneous Moses Drummer Soulful

Author:Gil Evans

“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.”

Desire Ability Environment Fire Wheels Inherent Our Environment Demonstrating

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.”

Humans Heart Children Country Energy Community Imagination Compassion Environment Generations Magic Dangerous Prove Intellect Myth Mysterious Fierce Radiant Jaguars

Author:Melanie Rae Thon

“It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.”

Way Beautiful Prayer Perfect Environment Greek Opera Chanting

Author:Troy Polamalu

“We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.”

Needs Environment Clean Get Rich

Author:Herman E. Daly

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

Humans Religious Situation Moral Environment Behavior Training Genes Human Behavior External Environment

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.”

Girl Brain Environment Becoming Active Classroom Favour

Author:Michael Gurian

“The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.”

Wells Stills Important Guy Levels Environment Skills Intellectual Smart Superiors Enjoyable Work Environment Bandwidth Smart Guy

Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla

“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”

Ifs Firsts Form Turns Bits Environment Changed Paper University Bones I Realized Fats Cells Stem Papers Wisconsin Stem Cell Wisconsin Weather

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.”

Humans Has Beens Earth Water Environment Wind Civilization Creating Patterns Desert Cycles Drought Dams Deforestation Human Civilization Urbanization

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”

“We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.”

Want Long Animal Environment Decided Customers Farmers Engagement Tied Long Ago Exploitation Chipotle Ells

Author:Steve Ells

“Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.”

Situation Environment Oneself Judo

Author:Kano Jigoro

“When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.”

Said America Environment Corporate Iphone Cio

Author:Randall L. Stephenson

“Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.”

Way School Support Environment Graduates Supportive Graduate School

Author:Susan Choi

“Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.”

Men Giving Writing Looks Different Simple Environment He Man Memoir Biographies Simple Things Get Ahead

Author:Arthur Golden

“I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.”

Feels Environment Wall Add Frozen Workspace

Author:Sadie Jones

“The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment”

Ideas Faces Leader Environment Tests Lead In

Author:John Sculley

“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.”

Real Process Hours Attitude Talking Environment Communication Listening Back And Forth Interactive Eyeballs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Feelings Can Do Environment Creating Misery Hysteria Can Do Something Reasonableness

Author:Bertrand Russell

“A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.”

Environment Teacher Students Succeed Good Teacher

Book:Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation

Source: Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation

“The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.”

Whole Purpose Environment Keys Setting Settings Cooks Grilling New Environment

Author:Barton Seaver

“And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.”

Mother Animal Rich Environment Amount Plant Incredibles Manage Data Mother Nature Biodiversity Small Amounts Biosphere

Author:Freeman Dyson

“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.”

Self Poetry Purpose Literature Language Challenges Roles Environment Reflection Machines Definitions Artistic Programming Introducing Self Reflection Programming Languages Multiplicity Coders

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.”

Way Years Used Deals Environment Team Unusual Unfortunate Championship Arena Nba Championships Nba Finals

Author:Erik Spoelstra

“So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.”

People Said Environment Bears Directors Safe Creating Percent Asking Load Casting Safe Environment

Author:Lynn Shelton

“I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Different Might Environment Different Ways Improving Trash Landfills

Author:Ed Rendell

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