Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Steve Forbes

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• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Party
  • Crazy
  • Environment

• Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Place

• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Environment

• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Women
  • Compassion
  • Values

• I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Family
  • School
  • Values

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• The environment shapes people's actions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Environment
  • Actions

• The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • War
  • Environment
  • Deep

• Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

  

  Martin Rees

• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Earth
  • Growing
  • Air

• Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

  

  Steve Forbes
  • Environment
  • Values
  • Protect