New Environment Quotes - Page 2

• Mexican people are very warm and friendly. I was able to adjust and adapt the new environment. They are very kind and helpful.

  Tomoki Kameda

  People, Mexican, Friendly

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Writing, White, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012

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• In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.

  Stephen Root

  People, Gliding, Roles

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

  Henry Rollins

  Faces, Playing Music, Environment

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• We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wise, Writing, Heart

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.

  Bill Drayton

  Team, Opportunity, Organization

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• Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

  Arie de Geus

  Organization, Essence, Environment

  "The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business". Book by Arie de Geus, 1999.

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• I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Successful, Thinking, Expression

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Helping, Youth, Revolutionary

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• I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.

  Amy Hardie

  Journey, Thinking, Brain

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Culture

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Government, Dna, Awkward

  "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview with Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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