Donella Meadows Quotes
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.Donella Meadows
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I don't have any nicknames.
Sally Ride -
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
Dan Hill -
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
Tea Leoni -
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
Hannah Simone
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer -
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf -
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. Wells -
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
Larry David -
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Yehuda Amichai -
If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln -
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Francesca Annis -
Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple -
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund Hillary -
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
Jack Kemp
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The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.
Kayla Tausche -
Animals had purer, more ancient souls than we humans did, and for most of my life, I had privately held onto the notion that if animals ever learned to speak, they would melt our minds to shit with all the wisdom we’ve.
Ben Galley -
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
Leo Strauss -
I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.
Jane Leeves -
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.
John Slattery -
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
Donella Meadows