“Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsQualityRecordsEnvironmentMessagesDrawsNotesFolksAppealsAtmosphereAttractiveMemorable Author:Ry Cooder
“The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.” PeopleIfsKnowsMeanShowsRealizingEnvironmentInstrumentsAbstractTape Author:Ry Cooder
“TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.” StoriesShowsVoiceEnvironmentTvsDirectorsExpectedSubmitUnfriendly Author:Hiro Murai
“Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all these things that don't matter, and not to what does matter, such as parents having enough resources to provide an environment where their children have both security and freedom.” PeopleChildrenDoeMatterEnoughParentPayAttentionEnvironmentSecurityResourcesPay AttentionIronySecurity And Freedom Author:Alison Gopnik
“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.” PeopleStoriesEnvironmentHappeningsWork Out Author:Kate Tempest
“Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.” WayTodaySimpleEnvironmentDinnerCoffeeShopsLeisureLaptopsCoffee Shop Author:Giorgio Armani
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.” WayMeanIndividualProcessResultsDealsCreativitySupportCreativeEnvironmentSkillsDemandCreatingManagementPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereIntimateOutcomesCreative ProcessManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.” PeopleMindDifferentCreativityCreativeEnvironmentTeamDangerWorkersDrivenTraditionalDamageFactoriesMind SetFactory WorkersCreative Team Author:John Kao
“Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.” PeopleMeanDoeRunningProcessCreativeEnvironmentDramaCreatingEdgesUncertaintyCreative ProcessNurturingSteam Author:John Kao
“The head of a record label sets up structures, but he also defines the sound of the label, which is to describe what is desirable, what fits and what is quality for that label and then to create an environment where that sound can thrive.” SoundQualityRecordsEnvironmentFitStructureLabelsThriveDesirableRecord Labels Author:John Kao
“You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.” PeopleAbleProcessLevelsCreativeEnvironmentHighestCreative Process Author:John Kao
“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.” NeedsTryingDoeProcessCompanyCreativeEnvironmentTeamProjectsFunctionManagementStructureFruitBoundariesSellingMaking MoneyBudgetsIntimateCreative ProcessTranslateInteriorsMarketplaceCreative WorkMilestoneAdministrativeIntervening Author:John Kao
“The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.” PeopleWantChallengesCreativeEnvironmentManageCreative PeopleOutput Author:John Kao
“Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.” PeopleArtistGoalCreativeEnvironmentAchieveResourcesMaking MoneyFiniteCreative PeopleCommunesAchieving GoalsDeploying Author:John Kao
“I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.” TryingEnvironmentSchedulesRelaxed Author:Ben Affleck
“When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanStillsI CanStatesForceTechnologyEnvironmentComputerModelsDepartmentEmployeeDevicesDesksSecretaryNew Environment Author:Hillary Clinton
“First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.” WorldFirstsProblemTodayTermEnvironmentLifetimeIncomeInequalitySustainabilityWorld TodayIdentificationIncome InequalityPertinentBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.” ThinkingWayNeedsEnvironmentAirScalesMake SenseExpensiveZoneConditioningHeatingAir Conditioning Author:Jonathon Keats
“Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.” ThinkingWayDifferentTermLevelsCitiesTalkingTechnologyEnvironmentFlowMachinesPlanningManageHeatArchitectEfficientUrbanDwellingManhattanIntegratingNot TalkingDomesUrban PlanningBuckminster FullerUrban Environment Author:Jonathon Keats
“Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.” IfsFormNaturalEnvironmentTheoryFilledPropertyPopulationStatementsTraitsOrganismsSelectionNatural Selection Author:Elliott Sober
“Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.” AbilityEnvironmentPhilosopherBiologyOrganisms Author:Elliott Sober
“J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our effort. That was the beginning of our relationship with first-time feature directors, and that's when it became really important to us, watching them thrive and grow in a creative environment in which you can do that was really key. Also his work checked all the boxes, because it was socially relevant and intellectually driven, and creatively exciting.” FirstsKindImportantEnergyGrowsCan DoEffortBehindsCreativeEnvironmentKeysDirectorsFirst TimeDecidedExcitingBoxesDrivenFeaturesThriveRelevantOur Relationship Author:Zachary Quinto
“Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.” HelpingDealsCitiesEconomyGoneEnvironmentViolencePlansConversationLowsClintonVulgar Author:Natalie Portman
“When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful.” ChildrenSometimesLosesEnvironmentColdSummerWinterExtremesHeatVillageAfghanistanExposedHomelessRefugeeShamefulTentsHumiliating Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.” YearsBookEnvironmentChangedYears AgoMarkBlogs Author:Sam Abell
“Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.” WorldSeemsLanguageEnvironmentMulticultural Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.” GivingSometimesLanguageEnvironmentWorking ItLots Of MoneyGood PlaceSpeaking The Same Language Author:Parker Posey
“It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.” ThinkingActorsEnvironmentImpossibleKeysSceneDirectorsFingersI've Learned Author:Ewan McGregor
“We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.” Environment Author:Uma Thurman
“We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.” AnimalActingEnvironmentSensesAwfulAbstractSteadyOur EnvironmentNoticing Author:Dale Jamieson
“In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.” KindStillsWarEnvironmentColdCold War80s Author:Stephen Mallinder
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.” PeopleHas BeensActionAnimalLeaderWatchesEnvironmentThis LifeEmpoweringRelaxRealisingOutstandingProgrammesBrainstormingOutstanding Leaders Author:Jane Goodall
“When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.” IfsKidsRealizingEnvironmentOkayStable Author:Amy Hill
“If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.” IfsWorldQualityEnvironmentGenerationsBetter LifeFuture Generation Author:John Kasich
“With the right team, you can really save so much time and energy. Whereas if you don't have the right environment and the right support from the company, or the right team, it can be extremely tiring and frustrating.” IfsEnergyCompanySupportEnvironmentTeamTireFrustratingTime And Energy Author:Christophe Lemaire
“At Lacoste, I learned how to drive in a very conservative environment. I had to learn how to do politics, how to talk, how to explain, and how to communicate a vision, and the necessary link between marketing and creative teams. Also, very important, the shop experience, which was actually very frustrating at Lacoste.” ImportantVisionCreativeEnvironmentTeamMarketingConservativeCommunicateShopsLinksFrustratingCreative Team Author:Christophe Lemaire
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.” PlayHelpingProblemActionResponsibilityTeachEnvironmentLogicSolveChessUncertainTaking ResponsibilityPlaying ChessTake Responsibility For Your Actions Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayImportantDifferentIssuesEnvironmentJudgmentConcernedBlindObsessionObsessedDifferent WorldsImportant Issues Author:Bell Hooks
“In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things to do with global warming, and this is why they were making work about these issues'.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksIssuesEnvironmentHundredWorriedThings To DoGlobal Warming Author:Patricia Piccinini
“My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.” PeopleBodyNaturalPracticeEnvironmentCreaturesFocusedArtificial Author:Patricia Piccinini
“There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.” ThinkingCountryFactsProblemKidsSchoolReligiousGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingSeeingMediaDegreesScientistBoardsRelevantTextbooksCurriculumSchool SystemScientific FactsSchool Board Author:Barack Obama
“I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.” ThinkingMomentsWorryEnvironmentPlaces To Live Author:Ruth Wilson
“I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.” PeopleWantPersonsRunningYoungEnvironmentI Want YouAspireGood PersonBeing A Good PersonRunning A Business Author:Zendaya
“It's this amazing combination to play, really, of somebody who's actually very fragile and hasn't really grown up properly yet - at least in a healthy environment - and has suffered immense loss with her dad - like that line where she says, [in the words of her father [King George VI], "Yes, 'Elizabeth is my pride but Margaret's my joy." She holds onto it!” PlayJoyFatherLinesLossEnvironmentPrideKingsDadHealthyCombinationFragileImmenseHealthy Environment Author:Vanessa Kirby
“There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.” NeedsMayHelpingHomeSupportEnvironmentUnhealthyHome Environment Author:James Redford
“There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish a better classroom environment, and the results and transformations were profound. It's impossible to ignore, and we make some passing references in my film, but 'A Room to Breathe' is a closer look at just how powerful meditation can be.” TryingLooksSchoolFilmRoomsResultsPowerfulEnvironmentMeditationWonderfulImpossibleTransformationProfoundBreathePassingPassingsClassroomDocumentariesInstructors Author:James Redford
“I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.” WorldBigsSchoolJobsEnvironmentPlansEconomicMiddleDiseaseEastAround The WorldAccountabilityMiddle EastFree MarketPromotingPublic SchoolMarketplaceAdvocating Author:George W. Bush
“I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.” PeopleThinkingTryingAbleTermEnvironmentDebateMeaningfulStatementsDiscussionCriticizeTrashSuccessorsTrash Talk Author:George W. Bush
“My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.” IfsMindAblePainRoomsHalfEnvironmentStyleSweatSimplify Author:Leonard Cohen