“We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanDoeTwoProblemBigsMightCareThreeCausesNumbersEnvironmentEatingBasesBlindEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSpotsMeatGlobal WarmingEnvironmentalistEnvironmental ProblemsBlind SpotsMeat EatingCauses Of Global Warming Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldDoeLastsValuesCommunityEnvironmentShareMinesBalanceSurvivalResourcesCompetitionCooperationEcosystemsCanaries Author:Rebecca Adamson
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.” ThinkingFirstsLastsPovertyEnvironmentVacuums Author:Wangari Maathai
“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.” ThinkingMenImportantPastOpportunityResponsibilityEnvironmentRewardsAvailableCorporateParticipants Author:Betty Friedan
“Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.” PeopleThinkingWorldPoliticalEnvironmentCompetitionProfessionAtmosphereManipulationCompetingPolitical Environment Author:Robert Greene
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelingsIndividualFunEnvironmentPressureBunchEnsembleCollaborating Author:Megan Fox
“In public, I hardly ever show feelings. That's what happens when everything you do is put under a magnifying glass. But if you've spent some time hiding behind your public mask, and you're back in your own environment, then all that suppressed emotions still has to be set loose. As a result you are going to behave like a nutcase. I think thats why so many people who are famous go nuts.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsShowsFeelingsHappensResultsEmotionBehindsEnvironmentGlassesBehaveMaskHidingNutsMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Robert Pattinson
“But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.” ThinkingKnowsKindEnvironmentWonderfulSolitudeMountainExtraordinaryClimbing Author:Andy Serkis
“I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.” ThinkingBelieveImportantUseChallengesStruggleEnvironmentEvolutionEvolveAffected Author:Elliott Gould
“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.” PeopleThinkingLittlesEnvironmentCostAmbitionSolutionsGainsDesperatePatheticOur EnvironmentLittle TimeMisuseBettermentBickering Author:Dave Matthews
“My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentMightEnvironmentInvolvedTerrorismKill Me Author:Bill Maher
“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.” ThinkingWayTryingGuyGamesWinningIndividualFunEnvironmentGrewApproachGrew UpReflectionWhatever It TakesStagingFun Loving Author:Dave Parker
“I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.” ThinkingMenWantSocialSportsIssuesEnvironmentGayMalesInvitingGay Men Author:David Stern
“I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindImportantMightAbleTogetherTermEnvironment Author:Desiree Rogers
“Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantImportantSocialEnvironmentSignalsEmailFiltersSpamGraphs Author:Clay Shirky
“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.” ThinkingHumansWellsUseEarthEnergyWaterNaturalEnvironmentPopulationSustainabilitySaltSplitsAgricultureMaintainingManufacturingSuppliesFootprintNatural EnvironmentSalt Water Author:Jamais Cascio
“I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.” IfsThinkingWayWellsDifferentMightEnvironmentDifferent WaysImprovingTrashLandfills Author:Ed Rendell
“I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.” IfsThinkingChildrenSituationEnvironmentProductsNineRight Direction Author:Usher
“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.” ThinkingProcessDecisionResponsibilityAcceptingEnvironmentHonestHealthyConsciousAssumingOneselfDevelopingBeing HonestMaturityInternalsMaking DecisionsRelationships With OthersHealthy RelationshipTrue To OneselfTrue GiftsAssuming Responsibility Author:Mary Pipher
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.” ThinkingWorldNeedsMeanPastMovingValuesOrderBornLinesEnvironmentShapesIndependenceDeterminedMeaningfulArrangementsAutonomyDefiningMoving Out Author:Gerda Lerner
“If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.” IfsThinkingMadeMatterPresidentEnvironmentEconomicBrokenRelationInternationalEnginesNutritionInternational RelationsAbrahamEconomic SystemsHealth And Nutrition Author:Rainn Wilson
“You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.” ThinkingCountryAbleOrderEffortEnvironmentTeethIdiotIncapableBrushesAssistants Author:Christian Bale
“People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansLittlesActorsGrowsWalksAudienceGrowing UpEnvironmentProfoundPerformersDecencyBad PeopleLightnessPayoff Author:Jimmy Smits
“I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensIdeasDoneAnimalEnvironmentNiceFansFarmsSmurf Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body's state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell.” ThinkingStatesStoriesBodyLawPowerfulEnvironmentCommunicationShapesHappeningsResponseRewardsFinancialSizeSatisfactionAttractionYour BodyTreatedClarityLaw Of AttractionWellnessAssetsLife ExperienceFlexibilityComponentsAspects Of LifeWork EnvironmentJob Satisfaction Book:Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition
“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.” ThinkingKnowsBodySufferingResultsPracticeTechnologyEnvironmentProgressSeeingDesignCreationIndustryDemandGreenEnvironmentalCancerInevitableFlawsChemistryChemicalsToxicEngineeringPollutionPrimitiveAgricultureConvenienceOur EnvironmentInconvenient Author:Sandra Steingraber
“Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.” ThinkingTryingHelpingEnvironmentSceneMusicianScreensSensitive Author:Shirley Manson
“Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.” IfsThinkingWantBeautifulEnvironmentAirSkyPlanetsTrainCloudsFlyingMy TimeDragonsUp In The Air Author:Gerard Butler
“What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison."” ThinkingCareKidsValuesHousePartyNumbersBreakEnvironmentOne ThingWallSafeWindowPrisonPaintDon't CareCaringDestroyedBeerExcitementPlusBottlesRoofBoozeNot Caring Author:Adam DeVine
“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.” ThinkingWorldStillsWarRealProblemJobsNationsChallengesEnvironmentLessonsMetsDiseaseCrossesClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismBordersInterdependence Author:Benjamin Barber
“I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems.” ThinkingTwoNationsOpinionSupportEnvironmentPlanetsDestructionProfitBoundariesFactorsMotiveCursedSupport SystemsProfit Motive Author:George Carlin
“If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.” IfsThinkingWorldWayAgeAbilityNumbersEnvironment Author:Andre Agassi
“I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLooksPersonsYoungCultureAsksSocialEnvironmentPlanetsMaterialsConcernedPressureRaisedAppealsInevitableVisualsOur PlanetOur EnvironmentSocial PressureChange Is Inevitable Author:Patti Smith
“I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.” ThinkingNeedsWritingFilmCoursesEnvironmentPerformancesScoreHallsConcertsAlways Thinking Author:Geoff Zanelli
“We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.” PeopleThinkingWellsPersonsStillsTurnsCreativeEnvironmentSpeciesEdgesDisasterShipsManage Author:Richard Bach
“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.” ThinkingSelfEnvironmentMomMetsFunctionMy MomInsaneGrandmotherSaneMy Grandmother Author:Jenny Lawson
“I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantedValuesMy OwnClearEnvironmentInspireMirrorsPassionateSustainabilityOwn BusinessInspire Others Author:Omar Samra
“I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.” ThinkingShouldArtYoungArtistEnvironmentEnjoymentYoung ArtistsPhilistines Author:Michael Longley
“I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.” ThinkingStrongEnvironmentWorshipDefense Author:Tim DeChristopher
“I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.” ThinkingStatesCultureLanguageUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentOne ThingEntrepreneurImmigrantsNew LifeNew CulturesNew Environment Author:Anousheh Ansari
“There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It doesn't matter, if you can't make the reader dive into the story and surround him with that environment and those characters. That's an experience that lasts longer than figuring out who did what. I think that's what makes our working relationship better, it helps us to make a book that feels unique and not like different voices.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsBookDifferentMatterCharacterHelpingStoriesLastsArtistVoiceEnvironmentReaderUniqueSurroundDifferent Voices Author:Gabriel Ba
“I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is to say that environmental concerns should certainly be addressed. We're not suggesting that any kind of development trample upon the existing laws that are there to insure that we maintain as high a quality of environment as possible.” ThinkingShouldKindLawQualitySupportEnvironmentDevelopmentEvidenceConcernCriticismEnvironmentalSuggesting Author:George Deukmejian
“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.” ThinkingDoeHandsJobsEnvironmentEmotionalParticularMaterialsHonorMusicianMusic IsAbstractionImperativesAccommodateLyricalUpper Hand Author:Sufjan Stevens
“Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.” ThinkingPowerfulEnvironmentEffectsProductionsZeroDefectsAdverseAdverse EffectsZero Defects Author:Narendra Modi
“Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsChildrenEducationEnvironmentTeacherProduceIndiaCapabilityLinkedGood TeacherGood Education Author:Narendra Modi
“I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.” ThinkingTwoLyingBitsEnvironmentRaisedNakedCaliforniaGood TimesMentalityHippieHaving A Good TimeLaid Back Author:Urijah Faber
“I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.” ThinkingCertainEnvironmentAchieveIndustryAmountFemalePerfectionConstantStriveRelatedOur SocietySkinnyWork Related Author:Mila Kunis
“I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.” ThinkingArtFeelingsSoundEnvironmentInspiredExcitedArtisticLabelsVisualsVisual ArtArt And Music Author:Black Francis
“Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.” ThinkingGivingYearsWellsLittlesHelpingNextTalkingEnvironmentFiveOur LivesAirTreeProduceBuildingPaperVoteVery GoodBoatFirmContributionFive YearsLocksGood FriendCarbonNext DayFurnitureProtectiveNaughtyContributingFive Year OldsFootwearVery Good FriendsLock UpToothpicksChopsticks Author:Phillip Adams
“I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.” ThinkingWayWellsJobsUsedWorkBusinessResponsibilityEnvironmentImpactI RealizedSustainabilityAdvocating Author:Ray Anderson