James Lovelock Quotes

We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

James Lovelock

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• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • She
  • Remember

• Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • World
  • Succeed
  • Youth

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Love
  • Beach

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Country
  • Alive

• Tomorrow night President Obama will announce his new immigration plan. Obama's favorite part of his new immigration plan is that he gets to emigrate to another country. He's tired of all this.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • Night
  • Tired

• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

  

  William Congreve
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Grateful

• BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Risk

• If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Environment