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“Nothing should be used anywhere that is not edible. We should not clean our house with substances that are toxic carcinogens. It's not necessary. There are anti-bacterial agents, and antiseptic agents, that are non-toxic. That's really our focus, and my personal focus: to make consumer goods that don't just smell good, but taste good, and can be used to anoint one's self and also the environment in which you are living in.”

Should Self Used House Environment Focus Taste Clean Smell Agents Consumers Substance Goods Toxic

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.”

“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.”

Thinking Way May Mean Different Sound Natural Space Quality Environment Elements Harder Environmental Atmosphere Different Ways Destructive Stillness Inherent Harsh Ambient

Author:Bill Laswell

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.”

Thinking Humans Individual Environment Commit Initiative Permission Disregard

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.”

People World Way Humans Reason Happens Environment Code Reason Why Fascinating Interaction Wet Unpredictable Misunderstood Collision Analytics

Author:Seth Godin

“Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.”

Needs Doe Choices Company Environment Fit Strategy Combining

Author:Constantinos C. Markides

“Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.”

People Environment Source Behavior Blame Affected External Environment

Author:Stephen Covey

“When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.”

Self Seems Environment Return Gains Harmony Constant Speed Command Staying Over It Our Environment Discord Recurrence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.”

Wells Ends Reality Kids Situation Support Environment The End Of The Day Controlled Childlike Support Systems Well Rounded Back To Reality

Author:Patton Oswalt

“Start with a small product in lab environment and grow it!”

Grows Environment Products Labs

Author:Colin Humphreys

“Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.”

Ifs Needs Should Children School Results Knowing Environment College Lows Increase Missions Income Providing Odds Lenses Attending Public Education Low Income Learning Environment

Author:Jeb Bush

“If your environment is not to your liking, change it!”

Ifs Environment Our Environment

Book:Become Your Best

Source: Become Your Best

“In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.”

Years Seems Three Opportunity Causes Difficult Effort Environment Changed Competition Size Productivity Objectives Factors Dozen

Author:Warren Buffett

“Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.”

Ifs Environment Impact Transactions Externalities

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.”

World Order Process Environment Activity Findings Aspect Meetings Patterns Appearance Exploration Exploring Skillful

Author:Alva Noe

“Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.”

Environment Progress

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.”

Ifs Might Culture Differences Race Issues Environment Fans Grew Grew Up

Author:Russell Peters

“To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.”

Two Certain Given Environment Talent Capacity Fortune Combination Inward Maximum Wisest

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.”

Has Beens States Problem Form Talking Forever Environment Assuming Agendas Transition Embedded

Author:George Cowan

“Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?”

Problem Waiting Steps Cases Environment Resources Solve Nuclear Secure Latter Our Future Holocaust Pollution Selection Exhaustion Explicit Overpopulation

Author:B. F. Skinner

“When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.”

Might Social Space Attention Environment Fans Married Female Clubs Bars Unwanted Social Environment

Author:Simon Bird

“If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.”

People Ifs Writing Book My Own Environment Lessons Candid Work Environment

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.”

“Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from elsewhere just can't operate in that kind of environment. Al Qaeda members who do manage to infiltrate are hunted down like rats. This conservative Muslim society did a better job protecting me from Islamist killers than the U.S. military could do in the Green Zone in Baghdad.”

“One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.”

Environment Mastery

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.”

Should Firsts Children Done Natural Environment Development Needed Normal Red Bases Obstacles Remove True Nature Departure Flowering Natural Gifts

Author:Maria Montessori

“When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.”

Want Needs Children Littles Helping School Given Environment Help Me Adapted

Author:Maria Montessori

“Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.”

Ability Environment Flexible Normality Changing Environment

Author:Lawrence S. Kubie

“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.”

Knows Home Today Past Political Social Sin Environment Changed Accounts Drunk Chickens Coming Home Prime Boxers Social Environment Roost Times Are Changing

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.”

Government Decision Economy Environment Weak Spending Wrong Time Undisciplined Wasteful Spending

Book:Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.”

People Stills School Felt Stuff Hell Creative Environment Lucky High School Who I Am Mature Really Great Nurturing Clique Dork Great Schools

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.”

“Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.”

Mean Space Attitude Environment Our Environment

Author:Kevin Hart

“Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.”

Environment Risk Resources Impact Severe Extraction

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.”

Cities Environment Minutes Ten Mountain Hollywood Hills Beach Parks Lions Urban Centre Frogs Owl Coyotes Urban Environment Hollywood Hills

Author:Moby

“When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.”

Writing Character Fiction Environment Realising Incidents Retrospect Writing Fiction

Author:Jonathan Meades

“A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.”

Environment Appreciate Surroundings New Environment

Author:Michael Klim

“I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.”

Thinking Done Body Understanding Environment Sea Land Happenings Greed Hunger Cancer Profit Realization Implications Careless Fast Paced Land And Sea

Author:Eve Ensler

“When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Book Home Jobs Hours Environment Cat Guitar Quitting Efficient Going To Work Deadline Paralyzed Free Time Pms

Author:Matt de la Pena

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.”

Thinking Knows Important Ideas Problem Environment Illness Separating

Author:Claudia Rankine

“Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.”

Environment Creating Investment Arguing Openness

Author:Claudia Rankine

“I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.”

“By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.”

Believe Today Cities Environment Modern Conditions Grew Healthy Safe Paper Grew Up Clean Prosperity Smell Tolerate Continuing Steel Mills Modern Society American Cities Healthy Environment

Author:Denis Hayes

“That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.”

Said States Term Interest Environment Progress Dying Mines Industry Protect Democrat International Senate Embarrassed Coal Short Term Furious Slag

Author:Denis Hayes

“Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.”

“The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.”

Ifs Art Ends Environment Fine Satisfied Museums Clients Gallery Fine Arts Unsatisfied

Author:Eric Drooker

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