“So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.” PeopleSaidEnvironmentBearsDirectorsSafeCreatingPercentAskingLoadCastingSafe Environment Author:Lynn Shelton
“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.” YearsHas BeensTwoBigsRunningJobsLastsMillionsEnvironmentCuttingPercentOriginalsSpeciesForestsDestroyedCorporationsOperationsVersusEcosystemsBig BusinessAcresDichotomyTimberRedwoodsLogging Author:Julia Hill
“Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.” WarEnvironmentBuildingPercentAgreeArchitecture Author:Frank Gehry
“In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.” TryingStoriesDreamEnvironmentTenPercentHollywoodFlamesNinetyElusiveMothsAttractiveness Author:Conrad Hall
“You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsTryingWellsKindRolesEnvironmentRiskSafeComfortablePercentBreatheNew ThingsScenariosTaking RisksTrying New Things Author:Nina Dobrev
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.” KnowsI CanHelpingGrowsKnow HowStudyEnvironmentFireTreeSkillsSurvivalPercentOkayPlantSticksWoodsI RealizedBranchesHelp MeLos AngelesShelterUrbanSurvival SkillsUrban Environment Author:Shailene Woodley
“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.” BelieveCoursesI BelieveEnvironmentPercentThirdsMedicineCancerSmokingLungsIncidentsOur EnvironmentDecreaseLung Cancer Author:Laurie Glimcher
“I just love the fact that all my pals are basically looked after. You know, we have these amazing deals, these guys split 50 percent. We have ownership 50 percent, all the bonuses 50 percent, and everybody's going to be alright. So going forward into the future, every one of these Millarworld projects, as we call them, 50 percent partners on everything. So it's just a really happy environment to be working in.” KnowsFactsGuyDealsEnvironmentProjectsPercentPartnersSplitsOwnershipAlrightReally HappyBonusPals Author:Mark Millar
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.” SelfFactsHandsEnergyStrongEnvironmentProductsPercentConsciousHundredExtremesFinishedSillySuperiorsMetalsEfficiencyEvidentPropositionsHypothesisElectricalElectrical Energy Book:I, Robot Source: I, Robot