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Letter "E" » environment
«If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.»
Author: Eliel Saarinen
(Architect)
| Keywords:
by design, chair, Chairing, city, Considering, context, design, designing, environment, Environments, house, In Context, larger, next, plan, room, rooming house, The Chair, The Chairs
«Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.»
Author: Elliott Jaques
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capability, differential, do work, environment, equitable, leaders, matches, potential, provided
«A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.»
«Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.»
Author: Steve Jobs
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Quality
| Keywords:
environment, expected, yardstick
«Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
beliefs, conventional, conventional wisdom, decisions, environment, ignore, limits, shape
«Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Prejudice
| Keywords:
differ, differed, environment, equanimity, expressing, opinions, People Express, prejudices, social
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
adventurous, although, appears, barn, barns, broad, broads, climbing, connections, creating, destroying, discovering, environment, erecting, erects, forms, gained, gaining, masteries, mastery, mountain, mountain climbing, Obstacles, points, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smaller, started, starting, theory, The Connection, the point, tiny, unexpected, view, views, wider
«Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
accident, by and large, countries, democracies, democratic, environment, go to war, Human rights, it No, social justice, social rights, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, terrorism, terrorists
«I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male!»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
alter, apart, at will, din, environment, Environments, hammer, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, incredible, knock, knocked out, knock on, knock out, knock up
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