Doe Quote by Trent Dilfer

“some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.”

— Andre Agassi

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

— Tom Udall

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

— Arlene Francis

“Be a thermometer and not a thermostat! (Set the temperature rather than registering it!)”

— Karen Budzinski

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

— Cornel West

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

— Laozi

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

— Lisa Alther

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

— Adam Ferguson

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

— George Kukla

'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming.…

— Alex Shoumatoff

A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk