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“Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.”

People Environment Position Happenings Transformation Oneself Stuck Never Change

Author:Yasuhiko Kimura

“I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people and get the whole world community to implement green features and aspects in not just the built environment not just in their lifestyles but in their businesses in their industries then we're heading towards a green future.”

People Ifs World Believe Whole I Believe Community Environment Industry Built Aspect Green Committed Lifestyle Whole World Optimistic Features Educate Headings Built Environment

Author:Ken Yeang

“The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.”

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Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.”

People Wells Country Reason Would Be Action Social Simple Environment Needed Messages Tests Bases Decent Slogans Ghetto Affluence Social Action Decent Life

Author:Barry Commoner

“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

“The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.”

People World Way Existence Environment Havens Depends Appreciate Around The World Dependent Stability Layers Organisms Richness Living Organisms Biosphere

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I don't know what to say to people. It's become so big. It's become part of the cultural environment. For the first and second Twiglight, I knew exactly what to say to people. If you don't know what the story is by now, then you've probably never been to the cinema before. How about, "Why not go to the cinema for once?" I don't know.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Stories Bigs Environment Cinema Why Not

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.”

People Life Inspirational Has Beens Done Motivational Past Belief Decision Vision Environment Shapes Limits Conventional Conventional Wisdom Past Decisions

Author:Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

“We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.”

People World Children Energy Environment Bases Climate Change Global Warming Pledge Overpopulation

Author:Ted Turner

“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.”

“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.”

People Needs Problem Action Support Environment Planets Development Becoming Capacity Destruction Transformation Urgent Degradation Modification Biosphere

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.”

People Ifs Needs Humans States Earth Natural Inspiring Race Environment Revolution Perception Denial Human Race Need A Change

Author:Ted Turner

“It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.”

People World Way Kind Different Reality Able Games Environment Perception Glasses Different Ways Really Cool Perception Reality Colored Glass

Author:Will Wright

“Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.”

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Author:Seth

“It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.”

“Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.”

People Country Bigs Government Economy Environment Media Style Including Our Country Corporations Iron Rebellion Populism Big Corporations

Author:Jim Hightower

“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”

“I always knew pesticides affected farmworkers. That's why I always tell people, "eat organic." Not just because it's better for you but because you know the people who picked your food weren't in a toxic environment.”

People Knows Environment Affected Toxic Pesticides

Author:Eva Longoria

“It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.”

People World Different Play Home Certain Knowing Environment Expectations Sitting Theater Different Worlds

Author:David Fincher

“I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Light Would Be Challenges Interesting Environment Nice Drama Shapes Shining Destination Being Nice

Author:Tom Hardy

“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.”

People Way Feels Trying Problem Pain Deals Environment Racism Tools Hatred Increase Denial Frustration Feel Better Scapegoat

Author:Matt Dillon

“People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.”

People Heart Soul Body Choices Environment Partners

Author:Billy Corgan

“I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.”

People Sides Brain Environment Divides

Author:Edward Norton

“In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.”

People Environment Doors Ocean Unity Our Family Consistency Fabulous Hawaii Pacific Pacific Ocean Malibu

Author:Laird Hamilton

“There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.”

People Way Mean Important Happens Action Moving Consciousness Attitude Environment Wife Influence Behavior Clothes Instant Gestures Toilets Here And Now Our Words

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.”

People Knows Feels Seems Can Do Know How Environment Cutting Car Like You Our Environment Headphones

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.”

People Bigs Environment Office Locked Assistants

Author:Marcelo Claure

“If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.”

People Ifs Long Social Stuff Hours Rooms Half Environment Media Window Social Media Eight Spending Bother Working It Conferences Cubicles Personal Stuff

Author:Marcelo Claure

“The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.”

People Culture Environment Office Everyday

Author:Keith Rabois

“Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.”

“I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.”

People Thinking Feels Should Feelings Spiritual Culture Easy Natural Environment Land Praying Healthy Perception Wake Up Waking Mexico Wholeness Terrain Healthy Relationship New Mexico

Author:Val Kilmer

“I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment”

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Author:Dorothy Arzner

“The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.”

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Author:Maulana Karenga

“Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.”

People Writing Book Goal Environment Scary

Author:Alan Weisman

“Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.”

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Author:Charles Burnett

“I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.”

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Author:Alicia Sixtos

“Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.”

“In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.”

People Environment Security Huge Currents Cash Equations Repercussions

Author:Mark Boyle

“If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Different Whole Would Be Environment Eating

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.”

People Mind Brain Environment Development Shapes Function Structure Interaction Relationships With Others Interpersonal Structure And Function

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?”

“I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.”

People Felt Environment California Flew Seattle Iowa

Author:Li Ang

“There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.”

“I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

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