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“There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.”

People Thinking Wells Real Names Deals Environment News Expecting Traps Reporters Obscure Conferences Attending Briefing

Author:Tom Brokaw

“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”

Believe Real Order Belief Natural Pay Environment Generations Future Investment Debt Enormous Settling Our Society Worthwhile Consumption Future Generation Natural Environment

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.”

Made Real Environment Figures Horse Sticks Mud

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.”

Knows Real Dream Law Desire My Own Brain Environment Products Appearance Real Life Permanent Awake Distinction Recognise Actuality Transitory

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.”

“For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.”

Real Voice Music Growing Up Environment Growing Outlets Unstable

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.”

Doe Real Pain Interest Pleasure Views Environment Shapes Areas Breaths Bones Point Of View Flesh Vulnerability Abstraction Reservations

Author:Mark Rothko

“Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.”

People Ifs Humans Real Able Human Beings Environment Childhood Honest Who We Are Appropriate Telling The Truth Wounded Adolescence Conditioning Very Deep Imprinting

Author:Adyashanti

“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”

Feels Heart Kind May Real Beauty Environment Color Intellectual Deeper Real Love Canvas Abstraction Marble Outlines

Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.”

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Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.”

Thinking Want Giving Real Play Reality Actors Stuff Environment Stage Happenings Green Screens Shooting Capture Real Stuff

Author:Michael Bay

“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.”

Way Made Real Reality United States Environment Edges Versions Distinction Latter Friendly Users Defects Surrogates American Way Of Life User Friendly

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

People Feels Children Real Kids Past Cities Environment Adults Roots Raised Pops Teenager Hollow Incomplete Like Something Suburbs Movie Sets

Book:Hush

Source: Hush

“The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.”

Real Games Environment Talent Industry Tools

Author:Palmer Luckey

“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”

World Real Sleep Levels Environment Magic Awareness Higher Elements Eating Function Drinking Possession Caring Allowing Soar Our Environment Higher Level Pawns

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.”

Real Process Hours Attitude Talking Environment Communication Listening Back And Forth Interactive Eyeballs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”

Men Real Play Problem Environment Drama Conflict Cameras Mere Setting Settings Presentation Parables

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.”

Real Age Found Company Environment College Theater Towns Available Nine Atmosphere

Author:Christopher Reeve

“It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.”

Ideas Real Hard Bigs Gone Environment Return Harder Investing Entering Get Real Differentiate New Environment

Author:Steven A. Cohen

“Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.”

People Ifs Years Real Play Dies Choices Millions Environment Cost Benefits Capacity Environmental Cancer Certainty Denial Goods Pollution Probability Our Environment

Author:Paul L Wachtel

“With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.”

Feels Real Character Feelings Actors Force Space Roles Environment Type Location Diving

Author:Michael Eklund

“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.”

Thinking World Stills War Real Problem Jobs Nations Challenges Environment Lessons Mets Disease Crosses Climate Climate Change Terrorism Borders Interdependence

Author:Benjamin Barber

“I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.”

Trying Real Done Film Actors Environment Approach Casts Authenticity Exploring Short Films

Author:Tom Green

“The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.”

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Author:Rachel Dratch

“We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests our emotions were shaped by our evolutionary environment not the one we grew up in.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.”

“I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.”

Knows Giving Real Helping Suffering Values Force Environment Perspective Track Our Environment Real Value New Perspective

Author:Thea Bowman

“Jenson Button is the real deal. It just takes the right environment, the right time - don't doubt he has all the talents to win Grands Prix and challenge for championships.”

Real Winning Challenges Deals Doubt Environment Talent Buttons Championship Right Time

Author:David Coulthard

“Digital gadgets often plug us into an environment that's more cluttered than the real world.”

World Real Environment Digital Real World Plugs Gadgets

Author:Mal Fletcher

“It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.”

People Thinking I Can Real Helping Today Process Environment Imagine Information Mass Advantage Helping Others Productive Cooperatives Inaccessible

Author:Vinton Cerf

“I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.”

People Thinking Knows Real Self Faces Environment Tvs Cracks Slips Real Self

Author:Andy Cohen

“My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.”

Way Firsts Art Real Hands Space Environment Pieces Produce Activity Pages Cameras Instruments Photograph

Author:Vito Acconci

“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.”

“The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.”

Needs Real Fighting Environment Impossible Achieve Integrity Aim Instruments International Terrorism Terrorist Russia Practicals Preserves Organisation Territorial

Author:Vladimir Putin

“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.”

People Feels Important Real Hard Justice Environment Safe Important Things Criminals Setting Settings Things To Do Therapeutic Criminal Justice

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“I know what it's like to be so distracted by your surroundings and in the moment that it's seemingly impossible to not get caught up in 'em. I know what it's like to feel so much smaller than the activities of your environment that you can't see how not to succumb to 'em. I know what it's like to not be able to focus in class due to real life hunger pangs. I know what it's like to be disruptive just to pass the time and take your mind off what's lacking at home. I know what it's like to be laughed at by your teacher when you tell them what you hope to be in life.”

Knows Feels Mind Real Moments Home Able Class Environment Focus Teacher Impossible Activity Hunger Caught Dues Real Life Ems Laughed Lacking Caught Up Surroundings Distracted Our Environment Disruptive

Author:T.I.

“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.”