Best environment & individual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

Way Shows Literature Individual Environment Our Lives Unconscious

Author:Manuel Puig

“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.”

Individual Social Understanding Environment Fit Seeking Welfare

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.”

Men Made Whole Past Life Is Individual Environment Mankind Possession Valuable Agents Our Time Links Heritage Menace Individual Life Deterioration

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”

Inspirational Humans Purpose Individual Understanding Human Beings Environment Feminism Unique Feminist Combination Uniqueness Heredity Heredity And Environment

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.”

Self Together Winning Individual Environment Team Elements Structure Agreement Accountability Stewardship Glue Win Win

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.”

Ifs Persons Art Individual Community Existence Environment Concerned Connections Relate Individual Life

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.”

Individual Strong Grows Environment Type Survival Weak Fats Strife Strain Luxurious

Book:The Passing of the Great Race

Source: The Passing of the Great Race

“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”

Men Able Action Individual Ability Environment Information Depends Future Behavior Fairs Flow Bases Rational Data Outcomes Feds Sanity Hinges

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.”

People Today Individual Loss Environment Violence Information Identity Planets Revolution Electric Testing Extinction Prompts Reassurance Rediscovery Loss Of Identity

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

Hands Turns House Individual Environment Source Prison Manifestation Pollution Brutal Cursed Degradation Midas

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

Character Individual Environment Behavior Determined Ancestry Affiliation

Book:Race and Democratic Society

Source: Race and Democratic Society

“Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual”

Character Individual Process Environment Produce Taught Determine Contrary Genes Traits Ongoing Character Trait

Book:The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Source: The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.”

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

“I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.”

People Thinking Want Feelings Individual Fun Environment Pressure Bunch Ensemble Collaborating

Author:Megan Fox

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”

“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

“Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.”

Individual Environment Habit Compromise

Author:Samuel Beckett

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

World Helping Action Choices Girl Individual Social Growth Boys Support Environment Fields Adventure Industry Comfort Labor Motherhood Circles Wilderness Nurture Social Action

Author:Gerda Lerner

“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

“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”

“Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.”

Feels Individual Natural Environment Goes On Resources Destruction Responsible Careful Planning Preservation Natural Resources Inexorable Careful Planning

Book:The Conspiracy Against Childhood

Source: The Conspiracy Against Childhood

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.”

Individual Environment Artificial Trapped Adaptation Sequence Harmonious Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.”

Individual Poverty Environment Grew Grew Up Intention Neighborhood Wrong Things Detours

Author:Kevin Gates

“If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.”

People Ifs Doe Able Individual Environment Work Environment

Author:Marc Kielburger

“... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.”

Wells May Matter Seems Action Individual Environment Deeds Connected Well Being Implications Inconsequential

Book:Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”

Two Hands Dies Individual Social Community Environment Evolution Essentials Factors Impulse Interaction Initiative Rejecting Adopting Social Environment

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.”

Has Beens Individual Wealth Environment Honest Bad Things

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.”

Should Stories Individual Social Environment Impossible Achievement

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.”

Men Desire Individual Grows Environment Average Traits Desirable Daydreaming Average Man

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“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

“I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.”

People World Action Individual Voice Environment Awareness Chorus World Environment Raising Awareness

Author:Li Bingbing

“The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.”

May Desire Turns Individual Belief Process Environment Information Members Picks Species Various Native Acquisition

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Able Individual Levels Environment Progress Ill Psychological Despite Mechanism Intervention Funding Adverse Psychosis

Author:Richard Bentall

“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.”

Made War Turns Individual Water Environment Air Land Healthy Protect Making Peace Stewards Air And Water Healthy Society

Author:Robin Lim

“The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.”

Individual Environment Active Tendencies Mediums Surroundings Continuity

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.”

School Opportunity Individual Social Born Environment Groups Balance Office Elements Various Contact Limitation Social Groups Social Environment

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“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.”

“Ultimately it's a snowboarding film [Fourth Phase], of course, so the main thing that we wanted to celebrate was how awesome snowboarding is! Secondly, we wanted to celebrate the environment that we all shape our lives around. So the film documents myself and other like-minded individuals attempting to follow the hydrological cycles that shape the worlds we've committed our lives to.”

World Wanted Film Courses Individual Environment Our Lives Shapes Committed Celebrate Cycles Fourth Phases Documents Attempting Snowboarding

Author:Travis Rice

“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.”

“Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.”

Knows Way Kind Matter States Facts Individual Difficult Results Environment Economic Policy Stress Connected Temperament Good Way

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.”

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