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“A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.”

Would Be Able Culture Environment Dinosaurs Integrated External Environment

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.”

People Mean Reason Seems Easy Environment Limits Boundaries Fats Firm Consuming Calories Getting High Tasty External Environment

Book:The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

Source: The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

Humans Religious Situation Moral Environment Behavior Training Genes Human Behavior External Environment

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.”

Inspirational Important Ideas Government Powerful Environment One Thing Willing Ego India Important Things Sells Selling External Environment

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.”

People Environment Source Behavior Blame Affected External Environment

Author:Stephen Covey

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.”

“Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.”

Ifs Environment Complexes Architecture Complexity Enterprise Accommodate External Environment

Author:John Zachman

“There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.”

Environment Indifference Sublime Aloofness External Environment

Book:The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom

Source: The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom

“Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.”

Men Humans Soul Body Life Is Environment Human Life External Environment

Author:Rene Dubos