Donella Meadows Quotes

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Donella Meadows

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• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Challenge
  • See
  • I Can

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Want
  • Powerful

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Me

• A woman always remembers. Remember that.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Woman

• I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Long
  • Blessed

• We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Good
  • Drama
  • Story

• Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Long
  • Period

• I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Thought
  • End

• Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Balance

• Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Community

• Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Water

• I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

  

  Hafez
  • She
  • Fly
  • Bird

• Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

  

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
  • Fall
  • Disaster
  • Hardest

• The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

  

  Christian Scott
  • People

• "When you're immersed in your chosen career, you've chosen it to change your life. Dance has given my life meaning, energy, interests, friendships, learning experiences, and most of all an appreciation for nature - a connection with the processes of nature and it became an insightful part of creativity. It became the lens through which I look at life. I'm part of this dance right now!"

  

  Anna Halprin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Dance

• ...we tell Saudi Arabia that they should stand with the Yemeni people. And anyone who doesn’t stand with our people, they are the losers. We know what it means to be free, and we will achieve it. And the interests of countries, it’s with the people and not with the regimes, because these regimes will be gone.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Free

• Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

  

  Donella Meadows