Environment Quotes - Page 28

• Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leader, Politics, Ordinary

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• White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

  Robin Morgan

  White, Environmental, Today

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.114, Open Road Media

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Compromise, Habit, Individual

  "Proust". Book by Samuel Beckett, p. 7, 1957.

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• I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

  Jaime Lerner

  Two, Car, Trying

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• Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Country, Struggle, Government

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• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  Mary Pipher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Maturity

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• When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.

  Bindu

  Lying, Communication, Heart

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• 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.

  Gerda Lerner

  Girl, Adventure, Motherhood

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• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  Clara Barton

  Failure, Humble, Humility

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• On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

  Paul Goldberger

  New York, Civilization, Cities

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• Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Children, Growing Up

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Expression, Individual Differences

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• Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

  Deborah Copaken

  Photography, People, Brain

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• People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.

  Joshua Meyrowitz

  Book, Reading, Media

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• Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Generations, Produce, Heredity

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

  William Morris Davis

  Today, Principles, Essentials

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• Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

  Christopher Reeve

  Real, College, Atmosphere

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.

  Bill Mechanic

  Dvds, Next, Rays

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, Broken, President

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.

  Christian Bale

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

  Teri Hatcher

  Children, Different, Culture

  "Teri Hatcher Talks PLANES, Why Her Character Is a Role Model for Girls, Her Hopes for PLANES 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 5, 2013.

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• People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.

  Jimmy Smits

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised.

  John Boehner

  Country, Military, Knowing

  "BOEHNER: Obama Intentionally Kept The Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Swap Secret" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Opposites, Two, Rawness

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