Best individual & environment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.”

Way Shows Literature Individual Environment Our Lives Unconscious

Author:Manuel Puig

“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“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.”

Individual Social Understanding Environment Fit Seeking Welfare

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.”

Men Made Whole Past Life Is Individual Environment Mankind Possession Valuable Agents Our Time Links Heritage Menace Individual Life Deterioration

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”

Inspirational Humans Purpose Individual Understanding Human Beings Environment Feminism Unique Feminist Combination Uniqueness Heredity Heredity And Environment

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.”

Self Together Winning Individual Environment Team Elements Structure Agreement Accountability Stewardship Glue Win Win

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.”

Ifs Persons Art Individual Community Existence Environment Concerned Connections Relate Individual Life

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.”

Individual Strong Grows Environment Type Survival Weak Fats Strife Strain Luxurious

Book:The Passing of the Great Race

Source: The Passing of the Great Race

“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”

Men Able Action Individual Ability Environment Information Depends Future Behavior Fairs Flow Bases Rational Data Outcomes Feds Sanity Hinges

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.”

People Today Individual Loss Environment Violence Information Identity Planets Revolution Electric Testing Extinction Prompts Reassurance Rediscovery Loss Of Identity

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

Hands Turns House Individual Environment Source Prison Manifestation Pollution Brutal Cursed Degradation Midas

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

Character Individual Environment Behavior Determined Ancestry Affiliation

Book:Race and Democratic Society

Source: Race and Democratic Society

“Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual”

Character Individual Process Environment Produce Taught Determine Contrary Genes Traits Ongoing Character Trait

Book:The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Source: The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.”

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

“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.”

People Thinking Want Feelings Individual Fun Environment Pressure Bunch Ensemble Collaborating

Author:Megan Fox

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”

“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.”

Thinking Way Trying Guy Games Winning Individual Fun Environment Grew Approach Grew Up Reflection Whatever It Takes Staging Fun Loving

Author:Dave Parker

“Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.”

Individual Environment Habit Compromise

Author:Samuel Beckett

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

World Helping Action Choices Girl Individual Social Growth Boys Support Environment Fields Adventure Industry Comfort Labor Motherhood Circles Wilderness Nurture Social Action

Author:Gerda Lerner

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

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