Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?

Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty of the coastal waters he cares for at a time when that environment is in danger of disappearing.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

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.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.