Maurice Strong Quotes
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.Maurice Strong
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon -
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
Dan Lipinski -
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
Sam Heughan -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck -
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. Doctorow -
I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
Adam Grant -
My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
Yara Shahidi
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Abraham Lincoln -
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
Zig Ziglar -
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters -
As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
Becki Newton -
I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin -
The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: “Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?” A thousand. None of them good enough.
Connie Brockway -
I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.
Ben Harper -
Summers simply won't be the same without him.
John Major -
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong