“The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.” BigsKidsFilmCertainQualityPlanetsDomainFestivalsAnimationAnimatedAnimatorFilm FestivalsAnimated Films Author:Michel Ocelot
“I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.” ImaginationFictionModernPlanetsHappeningsMy Imagination Author:Andrew Bird
“We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as our current valuation in the marketplace tells us every minute of every day that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of global warming into the thin atmosphere surrounding the planet every 24 hours as if that atmosphere is an open sewer, then the individual actions are not going to solve the problem.” IfsNeedsLongDoeProblemActionIndividualHoursMillionsMinutesPlanetsTaxesTradeCurrentsSolveAtmosphereGlobal WarmingCarbonMarketplaceCapsDumpCo2SewersValuation Author:Al Gore
“If the character should be nude in the scene and it makes sense and I trust the person making the film then I don't see a problem with it. I certainly don't want to be involved in anything that is gratuitous, but I don't think the human body is something to be ashamed of. Every other person on the planet has the same parts as I do.” IfsThinkingWantShouldHumansPersonsCharacterProblemBodyFilmPlanetsInvolvedSceneMake SenseAshamedHuman Body Author:Rooney Mara
“Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.” PeopleThinkingAnimalClassRightsPlanetsCitizensEqualThirdsEqual Rights Author:Sigourney Weaver
“And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.” ThinkingLooksI CanTogetherGirlWonderfulPlanetsHairModelsDressesMakeupGet OverPresentation Author:Vivienne Westwood
“My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.” SupportPlanetsFearfulEcologicalDegrading Author:Edward Norton
“You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.” GivingKindDonePassionLevelsSawsPiecesChangedPlanetsStrangerFocusedTransformedMy Passion Author:Marina Abramovic
“The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.” MomentsPlanetsSourceOceanHappeningsFinalsThings HappenDramaticExploringFrontiersOur PlanetSource Of LifeUnexplored Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.” PlanetsDespairExtremesHopelessnessDoomConsumingInevitability Author:Sam Keen
“Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.” PeopleEarthOur LivesDangerPlanetsDependsDegreesTemplesDestroyingReverenceBeesBugsImperativesPlanet EarthMallsCommonwealthSentient BeingsLuxuriousEscalatingBunting Author:Sam Keen
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsIdeasNextImaginationPoorGreaterGenerationsPlanetsTenDemandConcernCrisisPreparedNo IdeaFiftyGreater Good Author:Katherine Paterson
“I do believe that one of the major ways that we're out of alignment with our souls is in our disconnect from nature. I feel that we have kind of lost our natural way of being connected to the planet. We need to be rooted on the planet. We experience ourselves as kind of isolated from that, and I actually think that's a great cause of the suffering that many of us are experiencing, whether consciously or unconsciously.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsBelieveKindSoulSufferingLostCausesNaturalPlanetsMajorsConnectedIsolatedRootedAlignment Author:Shakti Gawain
“People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.” PeopleWellsIndividualInterestMankindPolicyPlanetsSeriousSurvivalConcernThreatProtectionAsteroidsIndividual Life Author:Kesha Rogers
“Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.” PeopleUseTodaySpaceVisionEconomyPlanetsTransformationTransformedApolloEducation System Author:Kesha Rogers
“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.” PeopleYearsIdeasReasonDreamMankindStrangePlanetsCoupleThousandDestructionDisappearSeatsDestroyingFadesThousand YearsFade Away Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.” I CanUsedMy OwnViewsPlanetsProveSuperiorsCivilisationLunaticColonyProve ItAsylumsUndesirableLunatic Asylums Author:Christopher Hitchens
“This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.” PeopleWellsHeartLittlesMomentsSeemsEarthLife IsMy OwnSilenceSunGrowingPlanetsHairMy HeartMoonAngelShiningRoundsDustEmptinessCosmosSpellsGood And BadPuffCoughing Author:Alexander Eliot
“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.” PeopleFeelsImportantYoungPassionOpportunityVoiceImaginationPowerfulPlanetsEmployeeMost PowerfulEducateStirringLone Author:Anita Roddick
“Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.” ThinkingUseNumbersFiveMankindPlanetsPerspectiveConceptsOptimismPessimismJustificationBloodyOptimistUtopiaPessimist Author:Milan Kundera
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.” IfsLightBeautifulStarsPowerfulSunWiseSubjectsPlanetsIntelligentFixedCentreDominionCometsWise Counsel Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)
“Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.” MatterUseSeemsFormStarsUnderstandingInterestingPlanetsGalaxyMost InterestingSuitable Author:Robert Kirshner
“The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.” HumansStoriesBigsHappensCultureConsciousnessPlanetsEvolutionBeing TrueBangsFormationAdventHuman ConsciousnessSarsEvolution Of Life Author:Ursula Goodenough
“Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.” WorldNeedsTwoEnergyHurtWonderfulMagicPlanetsCreaturesEmbraceOur PlanetLiving CreaturesMagic Words Author:Roger Caras
“We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.” HumansMeanUnderstandingPlanetsEvolutionSurvivalSpeciesScalesSolidarityHuman SpeciesHuman Evolution Author:Petra Kelly
“Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.” SocialPlanetsCivilizationDiseaseVicesPlagueViruses Author:Charles Fourier
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.” FirstsPersonsSelfChallengesGrowing UpGrowingCenturyPlanetsMachinesTwentiesDefinitionsAcquireOrganismsTranscendent Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.” NeedsEnoughAnswersPlanetsResourcesGreedSufficient Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?” BodyCareOrderStarsNaturalMoralTakenPlanetsHeavenlyHeavenly BodiesStars And Planets Book:The Portable Benjamin Franklin Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.” NeedsEarthFightingRocksPlanetsElementsConnectionsSkinsCommunicate Author:Fred Nicole
“Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.” IfsWorldWayGivingFeelingsLife IsChoicesWealthResultsSupportHonestyPlanetsIncrediblesProsperityStealingBreadFeel GoodAbundanceGet BackAbout YourselfChoices You Make Author:Josh Billings
“It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.” SuccessfulPlanets Author:Wernher von Braun
“How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?” IfsLongPlanetsOffersSkillsConcernedTasks Author:Jackson Browne
“Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.” NeedsMeanActionLawExamplePlanetsOceanScientistAbsolutesInternationalClassicOur PlanetPrecautionSave The Planet Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.” WorldMorningHellThis WorldPlanetsLaysLionsEvery MorningLambs Author:Aldous Huxley
“When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.” StillsBoysWifePlanetsWaveMy WifeThis LifeDimensionsRidingMy Boys Author:Novak Djokovic
“Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.” HumansSpiritLyingHumanityFictionPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationAccountsScience FictionTalesLegendsSolitaryHuman SpiritFrontiersFiction WritersNew FrontiersRediscovery Author:Pierre Trudeau
“There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.” PeopleWorldPlanetsPhonesRadioBillionsCellsCell Phone Author:Spencer Pratt
“Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.” LittlesYoungDogPlanetsQuietCrossesRepresentationSectionsEcosystemsPissed OffAlphasYoung Ones Author:Ryan Reynolds
“So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.” IfsGuyLanguageEnjoyTermCasesPlanetsNeededCyclesThrowingFormalTeenageNarratorsSlangBaroqueFlashy Author:Neal Stephenson
“The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.” MenHumansTwoIdeasRealitySexHuman BeingsRolesCrazyPlanetsStrikesExploringOtherness Author:Yann Martel
“It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.” IfsThinkingHumansLooksKindHardJobsHuman BeingsAnimalPlanetsVery GoodAwfulMessBe KindGood JobExtinctionPessimistic Author:Bill Bryson
“I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.” PeopleThinkingMayPlanetsDestructionCollectivesInitiationUnleashed Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.” ThinkingPlanetsWesternGet AwayDualism Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsMatterStarsWorryPlanetsConceptsMiraculousBombingAbsorbingStrangenessHumdrum Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.” BigsFilmPlayerParticularPlanetsPersonalityIndustryReturnMajorsInvestmentIndividualityStudiosMaking MoneyAppealsFormulasCommitteesFilm IndustryStrippingStripping Away Author:Signe Baumane
“In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.” WorldMeanHas BeensNumbersWeekPlanetsPeriodsOrganizationClimateClimate ChangeAverageTerroristSeptemberTemperatureSeptember 11Terrorist AttacksWorld HealthSeptember 11 2001World Health Organization Author:Peter Singer