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“The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.”

Soul Life Is Environment Circumstances Endure Bitter Dependent Contentment Midst Superficial Distressing

Book:The Secret of Happiness

Source: The Secret of Happiness

“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.”

Men Humans May Seems Struggle Environment Conditions Photography Noble Foolish Arise Symbols Desert Human Condition Backdrop

Book:Desert Cantos

Source: Desert Cantos

“On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.”

Matter Cities Environment New York Civilization Serving Riding Crowded Subway Noisy Graffiti Smelly

Author:Paul Goldberger

“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.”

People World Force Brain Environment Photography Muscles Interacting Adept

Author:Deborah Copaken

“Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.”

Government Environment Taxes Lows Debt Spending Controlled Texas Limited Government

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.”

World States Moving Steps Environment Communication Habit Patterns Active Block Factors Recognition Data Instant Classification Instant Communication

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.”

Government Environment Effects Asking Impact Journalist Fuel Hopeless Jet Airline Espionage Leaks

Author:Benjamin Wittes

“People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.”

People Littles Book Reading Sound Effort Environment Media Information Television Messages Bother Justify Print Reach Out Thrust Electronic Media

Author:Joshua Meyrowitz

“Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.”

Environment Generations Produce Slums Heredity

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.”

Today Term Principles Environment Essentials Organisms Coins Geography

Author:William Morris Davis

“Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.”

Real Age Found Company Environment College Theater Towns Available Nine Atmosphere

Author:Christopher Reeve

“Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.”

“Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.”

Wells Next Felt Environment Economic Products Behavior Studios Traditional Consumers Rays Dvds Dumped Panacea Misreading

Author:Bill Mechanic

“When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.”

Loss Environment Pages Species Supposed To Be Reports Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Woody Harrelson

“If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.”

Ifs Thinking Made Matter President Environment Economic Broken Relation International Engines Nutrition International Relations Abraham Economic Systems Health And Nutrition

Author:Rainn Wilson

“You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.”

Thinking Country Able Order Effort Environment Teeth Idiot Incapable Brushes Assistants

Author:Christian Bale

“America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.”

Should America Economy Environment Internet Foundation Secure Tension Our Future Trusted Cooling

Author:Edward Snowden

“I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.”

People World Want Feels Together Joy Creative Environment Married Feel Good Artistic Working Together Be Creative Great Joy

Author:Julia Roberts

“I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.”

Children Different Culture Environment Our Children Your Children Beneficial Different Cultures Different Environments

Author:Teri Hatcher

“People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.”

People Thinking Trying Humans Littles Actors Grows Walks Audience Growing Up Environment Profound Performers Decency Bad People Lightness Payoff

Author:Jimmy Smits

“I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.”

People Way Writing Kind Moving Speak Novel Environment Particular Universal Locals

Author:Zadie Smith

“We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised.”

“Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out”

Ifs Mind Heart May Difficult Can Do Challenges Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Within You Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.”

World Energy Social Growth Environment Economic Golden Thrive Thread Equity Economic Growth

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.”

Two Ends Environment Opposites Features Spectrum Refinement Luxurious Complementary Rawness

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now”

Ifs Has Beens Environment Saved Ironic

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.”

Knows Wells Faces Black Environment Hero Adversity South Facing Adversity

Author:Arthur Ashe

“A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work culture of the system. So practically, a progressive organization knows that no pressure environment plays a pivotal role to increase the productivity or proficiency of its workforce.”

Knows Needs Persons Play Culture Roles Environment Organization Increase Pressure Productivity Progressive Workforce Proactive Pivotal Proficiency No Pressure Positive Work

Author:Anuj

“The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.”

Helping Opportunity Technology Environment Green Employment Serving Sustainability Promoting Employment Opportunities

Author:Anuj

“I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Ideas Done Animal Environment Nice Fans Farms Smurf

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Bush fell off his bike while mountain biking on his ranch over the weekend. He hit a rough spot in the trail. There's a switch - the environment hurting Bush.”

Hurt Environment Mountain Spots Rough Weekend Bike Trails Biking Mountain Biking

Author:Jay Leno

“Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.”

Men Water Levels Environment Despair

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.”

Loss Environment Disaster

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.”

Children Running Mother Walks Steps Environment Independence Separation Mastery

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.”

Art Country Artist Environment Society Safe Dignity Assuming

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.”

“Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.”

Humans Dream Grows Environment Degrees Achievement Ambition Size Missions Our Dreams Carp

Book:Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Source: Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.”

“Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.”

Body Action Interest Study Environment Anthropology Dissection

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.”

Ideas Real Hard Bigs Gone Environment Return Harder Investing Entering Get Real Differentiate New Environment

Author:Steven A. Cohen

“The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.”

Wells Environment Information Products Safe Crisis Investing Financial Currents Profitable Financial Crisis New Products

Author:Jeremy Siegel

“I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? Is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No, it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay.”

Knows Inspirational Children Matter Hard Play Care Religious Environment Safe Consequence Okay Our Children Your Children Friendly Tag Hide And Seek Do You Care

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.”

Men Earth Natural Environment Share Commitment Profound Congress Administration Rescue Preservation Natural Environment

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.”

Men Wells Children Would Be Nations Natural Environment Exercise Resources Property Well Being Reasonable Assurance Natural Resources Foresight Prudent Conserving

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole.”

People Life Trying Persons Whole Shows Faces Growth Behinds Environment Serious Integrity Personal Growth Investing Yield Say Anything Beneficial Accusing Counterproductive Lack Of Integrity

Author:Ray Dalio

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