“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
“It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.” ThinkingWorldShouldFirstsStillsBookStoriesBeautifulReadingEnvironmentForestsDisconnectedPersonal RelationshipsBeautiful Books Author:Ellen Page
“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
“A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.” ThinkingMenGrowsEnvironment Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking.” ThinkingWorldMindLooksUnderstandingPowerfulEnvironmentInspireSentimentalScornUpbringingWishful ThinkingReductionismUnderstanding The World Author:Peter Atkins
“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.
“I think it's really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a rubric, a system that you apply to all environments, and in so doing you create a situation in which you can locate local color, local differences within new environments.” ThinkingUseTermDifferencesSituationEnvironmentColorLocalsDoing YouParametersGridsNew EnvironmentRubrics Author:Kehinde Wiley
“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
“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
“I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.” ThinkingWayNeedsEnvironmentAirScalesMake SenseExpensiveZoneConditioningHeatingAir Conditioning Author:Jonathon Keats
“Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.” ThinkingWayDifferentTermLevelsCitiesTalkingTechnologyEnvironmentFlowMachinesPlanningManageHeatArchitectEfficientUrbanDwellingManhattanIntegratingNot TalkingDomesUrban PlanningBuckminster FullerUrban Environment Author:Jonathon Keats
“It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.” ThinkingActorsEnvironmentImpossibleKeysSceneDirectorsFingersI've Learned Author:Ewan McGregor
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“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
“There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.” ThinkingCountryFactsProblemKidsSchoolReligiousGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingSeeingMediaDegreesScientistBoardsRelevantTextbooksCurriculumSchool SystemScientific FactsSchool Board Author:Barack Obama
“I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.” ThinkingMomentsWorryEnvironmentPlaces To Live Author:Ruth Wilson
“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
“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
“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
“I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.” ThinkingLooksRichEnvironmentPicksCrisisFinancialTargetGet RichTreasuryFinancial CrisisDealings Author:Rich Lowry
“If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsMy OwnEnvironmentLet MeCleanPollutionEcosystems Author:Byron Katie
“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
“We played around and improvised a ton [in The Hangover], and I think it's hard to say at this point what's what. Gosh, I wouldn't even know how to take a stab at it. The script was so good that we really didn't need to improvise very much, but I think we just found a lot of moments on the set. It's really cool when you get onto the set of a movie and you start shooting the scenes and you start to actually incorporate the environment.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHardMomentsFoundKnow HowEnvironmentSceneScriptsShootingReally CoolHangover Author:Ed Helms
“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.” ThinkingWritingFirstsMeanSecretEnvironmentModelsAreasSettingSettingsBostonScholarshipLovecraft Author:Paul Laffoley
“I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.” ThinkingWayCultureFeltDarkGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingSubjectsGrewApproachGrew UpDancingCloudsMonstersFascinatedCelebrationMexicoUnspokenSkeletonsCelebration Of LifeMonster MovieDay Of The Dead Author:Tim Burton
“I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.” ThinkingJobsAmericaEnvironmentElectionMovedCampaignsHelpfulGovernancePostureGreat JobJobs In America Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“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
“I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.” IfsThinkingLongEnvironmentLong TimeDetermineMythUnhappySpouseAlcoholicsOur Environment Author:Gary Chapman
“I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.” IfsThinkingIdeasStatesDoneGovernmentHappensUnitedMoralUnited StatesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesMilitaryDemandCreatingAbsolutesLifestyleControlledTerritoryPersonal LifePreferenceIdentificationResidentsPositive Change Author:David Swanson
“There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.” ThinkingNeedsWellsEndsAbilityEffortAttentionEnvironmentFrontsWillingComfortableConnectionsStressDetailsPartnersPrioritiesMake SenseRelaxRelativePreferenceClutterMatchedAttention To DetailAbility To Love Author:Carolyn Hax
“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
“There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?” ThinkingWorldTryingMadeCountryStatesTodayLosesUnitedUnited StatesCreativeEnvironmentMajorsIntellectualMathematicsMedicineAstronomyRegionsTransitionValleysEngineeringAgricultureCompassInnovativeFertileComplacentSiliconBaghdadSilicon ValleyIntellectual Capital Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country, the economy of our country; issues that have traditionally been considered women's issues like health and education and the environment are now being defined in terms of our national strength. So I think women have made a big difference in putting things in perspective.” ThinkingBelieveMadeCountryBigsI BelieveTermChallengesDifferencesEconomyIssuesEnvironmentPerspectiveProsperityDefenseOur CountryDefinedOccasionsRelateRisingHealth And Education Author:Nancy Pelosi
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenSchoolLastsPovertyEnvironment Author:Wangari Maathai
“Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.” PeopleThinkingHelpingPoorEnvironmentSurvivalPoor PeopleHelp The PoorHelp Poor People Author:Wangari Maathai
“I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.” ThinkingWayLinesInterestingEnvironmentExtremesOtherness Author:Tavares Strachan
“I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with the criminal justice system and the experiences of their family. We need to ensure that the classroom environment is a supportive one so that the shame and stigma can be dispelled.” PeopleThinkingNeedsImportantStoriesYoungSpeakJusticeEnvironmentShameCriminalsClassroomSupportiveStigmaJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander
“Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsLittlesCountryKnownRichEnvironmentModernCommunicationOffersFundamentalsAddFolksSatisfactionWideUnhappyBeing TrueEtcPlusDestroyingConsumptionStarvationUnfairnessRich CountriesDestroying The EnvironmentModern Communication Author:Michael Yates