Environment Quotes
3400 Environment quotes by 2126 unique authors
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We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one…
— Li Zhaoxing
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All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
— William James
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of…
— George Santayana
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When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and…
— Maxwell Maltz
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
— Charles Darwin
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by…
— Andy Grove
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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing.…
— Christian Bale
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The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart.…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health…
— Harry Johnston
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We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.
— Burton Silverman
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Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of…
— Robin Hahnel
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The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove…
— Jimmy Carter
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Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in…
— Henry Taube
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
— Jean Houston
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This is a deeply spiritual issue...Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy…
— Thomas Carlyle
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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a…
— Mark Twain
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I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to…
— Roger Bannister
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Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our…
— Michael Josephson
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The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution…
— Ronald Fisher
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The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a…
— Carl Sagan
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