Environment Quotes - Page 38

• One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mastery

  5 Copy quote

• Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Red, Firsts

  7 Copy quote

• When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, School, Needs

  15 Copy quote

• Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Changing Environment, Ability, Flexible

  4 Copy quote

• Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

  Cesar Chavez

  Home, Past, Times Are Changing

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.296, Penguin

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Government, Decision, Economy

  Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  Zoe Kravitz

  School, Who I Am, People

  "Exclusive Q&A: Zoe Kravitz & Ezra Miller". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, War, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

  Kevin Hart

  Attitude, Mean, Space

  "The "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Risk, Resources

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

  Moby

  Morning, Cities, Two

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

  Moby

  Beach, Cities, Hollywood Hills

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  Source: thequietus.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing like those emerging in the United States. Unlike Penn State which was a huge recipient of Pentagon funds, and was hostile to any criticism of its connection to the military and intelligence services, McMaster is a very open university that takes its commitment to a quality education and function as a democratic sphere very seriously.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Commitment, Intelligence Services

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Michael Klim

  Appreciate, Surroundings, New Environment

  Source: www.smh.com.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Sea

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline.

  Matt de la Pena

  Jobs, Book, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

  Claudia Rankine

  Creating, Arguing, Investment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Cities, Smell

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Denis Hayes

  Progress, Dying, Coal

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.

  Denis Hayes

  Couple, Commitment, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Museums, Clients

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  Mos Def

  Artist, Odds, People

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source