Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in our families, among the people who form part of our daily lives? Faith is born from listening, and is strengthened by proclamation.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

Basic US economics tells us that back-of-the-house workers are very unlikely to get more pay overall. The fact that workers are in those jobs means employers are already paying them what they need to pay them to get them in the current environment. If employers do share some tips with them, it will likely be offset by a reduction in their base pay.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

Being green saves you money. Being green saves you green.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Bush fell off his bike while mountain biking on his ranch over the weekend. He hit a rough spot in the trail. There's a switch - the environment hurting Bush.

Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

Canada is a malstructured. You could almost call it a failed economy, except that its natural resources are so rich that everybody can get wealthy off making holes in the ground and digging up the oil and polluting the environment.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?