Environment Quote by Todd Gitlin Download Open image “Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.” — Todd Gitlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environment Everyday Furniture Given Inertia Nature Nature of man
“Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not;… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is life’s only… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image