Quotes About Environments

#1. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

Gever Tulley

#2. I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

#3. Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children ... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.

Sandra Meucci

#4. For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Tony Hsieh

#5. I am not a fan of sealed up sterile homes or Faraday cages and their use in human health, although I do understand that some people do feel relief in these environments.

Steven Magee

#6. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

Dan Buettner

#7. Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

Tom Brokaw

#8. In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

Ian Bremmer

#9. We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

Faith Baldwin

#10. If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

Millard Drexler

#11. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Liu Cixin

#12. The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we are - because when we destroy our environments, we destroy our food and energy supplies. In short, we destroy ourselves.

Annalee Newitz

#13. People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

Dan Buettner

#14. At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.

Richard Bentall

#15. I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

Marina And The Diamonds

#16. MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

Douglas Coupland

#17. Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Yayoi Kusama

#18. Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

Adam Rogers

#19. Their power to see environments as they really are.

Marshall McLuhan

#20. It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

Norah Jones

#21. I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

James Cameron

#22. Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.

Jeff Corwin

#23. On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Paul Goldberger

#24. The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

James Howard Kunstler

#25. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

Daniel Goleman

#26. Innovative cultures are safe environments for honest inquiries.

Rich Karlgaard

#27. It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

#28. The differences you perceive between Humans - between groups of Humans - are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

Octavia E. Butler

#29. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Hartmut Esslinger

#30. At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.

Richard Hayne

#31. Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.

Kevin Systrom

#32. I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.

Vinton Cerf

#33. Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Gerald F. Lieberman

#34. I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

Addy Stevens

#35. The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.

Ken Wyatt

#36. I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Keegan Bradley

#37. You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.

Steven Magee

#38. Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.

Paul Stamets

#39. Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#40. I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Howard Rheingold

#41. I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

Karan Bajaj

#42. The concept in all these environments seems to be that one needs to complete his healing before he is ready to do his work.

Steven Pressfield

#43. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

#44. The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

Richard Price

#45. By helping them understand the rules and limits in their respective environments, we help build their conscience.

Daniel J. Siegel

#46. The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.

Palmer Luckey

#47. Environments are the messages before the message.

Andy Stanley

#48. I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#49. I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.

Gordon Willis

#50. Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

#51. It is, in truth, our responsibility to understand our needs and to adjust our perceptions,thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and environments to reflect these needs. We can't force others to change, but we can change ourselves.

Aletheia Luna

#52. Potential: the ability to adapt to and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments.

Anonymous

#53. Students of the twenty-first century require flexible environments with ever growing capacities like the Internet where literally the world is at their fingertips.

Starr Sackstein

#54. Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.

Bae Doona

#55. We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo ... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Tom Peters

#56. I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Mike Myers

#57. 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

#58. When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Rick Moranis

#59. Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Carlos Ghosn

#60. I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

William J. Clinton

#61. The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.

Mark Parker

#62. I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

Halsey

#63. I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

Josh Radnor

#64. I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

Dilshad Vadsaria

#65. Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

Nicholas Sparks

#66. The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

Ann Aguirre

#67. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

#68. You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.

Eric Thomas

#69. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#70. Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.

Robin D. Hart

#71. Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...

Ada Louise Huxtable

#72. When one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.

Steven Johnson

#73. Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.

James Heckman

#74. Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Gordon Ramsay

#75. The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

Marshall McLuhan

#76. We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.

Louis Navellier

#77. I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

Elizabeth Barton

#78. All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

E. O. Wilson

#79. The Lotus grows in the most inhabitable of environments, and yet its beauty and purity persevere. A reminder that not all have to conform . . . or settle for what is." - Theodore Teizel

Bridget Ladd

#80. In the newly evolving multi-dimensional world, we are all one and we are one with our environments.

Elaine Seiler

#81. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.

Walter Greenwood

#82. There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Bobby Orr

#83. We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

Marshall McLuhan

#84. Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Warren Buffett

#85. Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster

Phil Harding

#86. They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Rick Smolan

#87. Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

Teresa Amabile

#88. Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

Napoleon Hill

#89. At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a teacher. I knew I wasn't good in numbers, and I knew I wouldn't work well in overly structured environments.

John Ridley

#90. Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments.

Daniel H. Wilson

#91. History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Jared Diamond

#92. Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.

Marti Olsen Laney

#93. Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

Edwin Hutchins

#94. Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Wole Soyinka

#95. The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.

Bertrand Russell

#96. I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

Teri Hatcher

#97. When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

Henry Rollins

#98. Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Malcolm Gladwell

#99. Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

Alexandra Cousteau

#100. There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.

Chris Kluwe