“We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.” IndividualSocialUnderstandingEnvironmentFitSeekingWelfare Author:Robert E. Ornstein
“The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.” KnowsYearsFirstsEnvironmentFitTwenties Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.” ChildrenSchoolMotherEnvironmentFitConnectionsIndiaBritishIndianRemarkableFormalImperialismEnglishmenTextbooksFormal Education Book:From fear set free Source: From fear set free
“Utah is so wonderful. My greatest memories of Utah are of always being outdoors. It's a very athletic environment that I think gave me a lot of drive to be fit and live well.” ThinkingWellsMemoriesEnvironmentWonderfulFitAthleticLive WellUtah Author:Julianne Hough
“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.” PeopleNeedsGivingHumansHomeDiesGrowthHealingEnvironmentShareConditionsDyingHealthBirthFitHealthyDietsMatesHuman ConditionInterferenceGet WellHealthy Diet Author:Ivan Illich
“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsLittlesMightWantedSocialGrowsGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingPerspectiveFitConnectedOutsidersObjectivitySocial Environment Author:Moby
“Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.” NeedsDoeChoicesCompanyEnvironmentFitStrategyCombining Author:Constantinos C. Markides
“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.” ThinkingYearsKindStillsHardCharacterTodaySchoolJobsLawInterestingGrowing UpEnvironmentWifeGrowingMonthsFitBenefitsMy WifeQuittingBoredGirlfriendFlawsConformityPanicPregnantMinimumSeniorIn-lawsMy GirlfriendMinimum WageUtahWere PregnantSenior YearCharacter FlawsGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“The head of a record label sets up structures, but he also defines the sound of the label, which is to describe what is desirable, what fits and what is quality for that label and then to create an environment where that sound can thrive.” SoundQualityRecordsEnvironmentFitStructureLabelsThriveDesirableRecord Labels Author:John Kao
“Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.” EnvironmentImpossibleFit Author:John Malkovich
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.” WorldLifeDoeWealthAttitudePrinciplesEnvironmentThis WorldFitPursuitFulfillmentMaterialismSingle LifeSmall Is BeautifulPursuit Of Wealth Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL