Achim Steiner Quotes

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

Achim Steiner

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• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Rock
  • Building
  • Climb

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird immediacy that's, for me, really invigorating, and it just feels really rewarding.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Conditions

• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Secret
  • Parenting
  • Neglect

• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Give
  • Ourselves

• In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Wind

• Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenereedita doctrina sapientum templa serena,despicere unde queas alios passimque videreerrare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,noctes atque dies niti praestante laboread summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.

  

  Lucretius

• When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Country
  • Help
  • Free

• I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People

• My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Space

• Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.

  

  John Glen
  • Great
  • Action

• My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Growing Up
  • Players
  • Footballer

• If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

  

  Achim Steiner
  • Time
  • Science
  • Running