Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

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.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're not yet burdened by the needs of trying to put food on the table in a pretty repressive environment, often, and they're free to explore, to create, to invent, to act, and to organize. Over and over through the years, student activism has been extremely significant in initiating and galvanizing major changes. I don't see any reason for that to change.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system.

Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

Sustainable energy + food security + healthy environment = full employment + better future.

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Take charge of your environment.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.