Johan Rockstrom Quotes
During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
-
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
-
I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
-
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
-
Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
-
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
-
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
-
Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
-
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
-
I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
-
Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.
-
You have to believe in yourself.
-
Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
-
Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.
-
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
-
During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
