Environmental Influences Quotes

• You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  Mark Twight

  Expectations, Environmental, Peers

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• The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Attitude, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Real, Men

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind".

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• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Two, Environmental

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• There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Environmental, Body, Action

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

  Richard Bentall

  Environmental, Way, Influence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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