“At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.” PeopleWantKindSelfKidsTurnsCompanyEnvironmentBirdMercyAngryDescriptionOver YouMediocritySovereigntyOur EnvironmentAngry Birds Author:Daniel Gillies
“I think a lot of people in my circle are thinking that way or see the movie [Into the Forest] and then really think that way. I think it's hopefully tapping into sort of a consciousness right now in regards to our society's relationship with the environment and our own and our disconnect from it, myself included.” PeopleThinkingWayConsciousnessEnvironmentRight NowRegardCirclesForestsHopefullyOur SocietyTapping Author:Ellen Page
“Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.” PeopleLooksMadeWalksEnvironmentNiceStreetsCautious Author:Simon Helberg
“He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantStatesHousePresidentWhiteAttentionResponsibilityTalkingIssuesEnvironmentMiddlePolicySeriousTrumpClintonDemocratEastBarackWhite HouseMiddle EastSecretaryIsisBucksPresident Barack ObamaImportant IssuesWay Of Talking Author:Mike Pence
“One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.” PeopleWorldImportantTodayFightingChallengesEffortMillionsEnvironmentPlanetsDrugWeaponsMassDestructionTerrorismObjectivesStableOur PlanetPredictableJoiningFamineWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBiodiversityProliferationTraffickingDrug Trafficking Author:Vladimir Putin
“My purpose is to create circumstances, environments, businesses and communities where I am fully expressing my creative gifts with the intention to inspire other people to feel like they belong - first to themselves and then to a group that shares their common interest.” PeopleFeelsFirstsPurposeInterestCommunityCommonCreativeEnvironmentGroupsShareInspireCircumstancesIntentionInspire OthersCommon Interests Author:Mastin Kipp
“I think it's obvious why someone wouldn't personally want to see these words on their feed, but I'm also concerned about the overall negative environment created when the comment section becomes a battleground for people to bully each other. I signed up for this.” PeopleThinkingWantEnvironmentConcernedNegativeObviousCommentSectionsBullyBattleground Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansStillsCharacterAbleWantedFilmBlackHuman BeingsDecisionStruggleEnvironmentFocusLandIndependentConnectedBlack PeopleUrbanAssociatesIndependent FilmAll BlackUrban Environment Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.” PeopleLooksLittlesPersonsRoomsEnvironmentFrontsWallOfficeBoardsControlledRebelDesksCartoonDecorationUninspiringBulletin Board Author:Frank Gehry
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.” PeopleArtistSongEnvironmentInspiredEncounters Author:Kreesha Turner
“I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.” PeopleMeanHappensJobsMovingEnvironmentLosingIndiaRateEmploymentHandsomeUnemployedMacroeconomics Author:Manmohan Singh
“In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.” PeopleFeelsImportantRealHardJusticeEnvironmentSafeImportant ThingsCriminalsSettingSettingsThings To DoTherapeuticCriminal Justice Author:Maia Szalavitz
“The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.” PeopleArtProblemEnvironmentArchitectureTerritoryApplied Arts Author:Peter Clewes
“I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityLanguageEnvironmentObjectsTheoryConversationBehaviorFriendlyCautionInstagram Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.” PeopleDifferentCreativeEnvironmentBe CreativeDifferent PeoplesOur Environment Author:Paula Scher
“Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.” PeopleNeedsStuffEnvironmentThriveRitual Author:Paula Scher
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.” PeopleThinkingLooksChildrenWarStatesEvilEnvironmentCrazyGayMirrorsBlueConservativeMindsetDisagreeOppressedNaziPitsOppressorsGay PeopleLeftistsAgainst War Author:Andrew Breitbart
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.” PeopleEnvironmentBlessedSincere Author:Sharon Jones
“I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.” PeopleHumansLooksArtDifferentCultureEnvironmentRightsMovementYouthKillingHuman RightsNonviolenceInterfaith Author:Mairead Corrigan
“The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentEnvironmentAirEatingDestroyedBreathingGet Away Author:Bette Midler
“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsLooksStatesDoneFightingCommunityJusticeEnvironmentEconomicEmpowermentPoliceGood ThingsCongressFolksCriminalsReformHopefullyAccountabilitySmall BusinessLegislatureCriminal JusticeState LegislaturesEconomic EmpowermentCommunity Organizing Author:Keith Ellison
“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.” PeopleMindImportantSocialBrainEnvironmentImpactGatewaysSocial Environment Author:Michael Marmot
“["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoeWarCharacterActionAudienceEnvironmentShapesAppreciateHorseLensesWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesEnvironmentTvsObligedClutterInputMovie Business Author:Steven Knight
“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.” PeopleWorldImportantHappensCareLawDesireIndividualWishLevelsAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceInstitutionsAccessPursueHealth CareExcellentTransgenderTransAffirmativeKinship Author:Judith Butler
“When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.” PeopleAmericaWatchesEnvironmentOfficeEightFascinated Author:Jay Mohr
“There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.” PeopleIfsFeelsTwoDreamOrderSpaceEnvironmentTypeStriveStrife Author:George Carlin
“When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.” PeopleWantFeelsCreativeEnvironmentComfortableCreatingInspiredEaseFeel BetterInteriorsCreative Freedom Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.” PeopleGivingRealHousePresidentWhiteSecretEnvironmentWrittenKeysPromiseAuthorityTownsTradeTrackDareTongueLawyerBarackCorporateCorporationsAgreementWhite HouseNegotiationCarpetTransparencyTreasuryLobbyistsTrade Agreements Author:Bill Moyers
“I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.” PeopleWorldCareEarthNationsCommonEnvironmentResourcesTake CareAtmosphereHeritageAbolish Author:Jacque Fresco
“I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayStillsCultureEnjoySoundEnvironmentCarColorSmellSensesOur WorldGrayPrimitiveCraveRichnessGarageCubicles Author:Janet Fitch
“If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give them education, all the tension will end. And this is why, all those who want good for the nation, I request them to compete towards development and for development. This atmosphere should be created in India and I think such an environment is being created nowadays.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingShouldEndsNationsEnvironmentDevelopmentIndiaEmploymentAtmosphereTensionPlatesFacilityRequest Author:Narendra Modi