Adam Gollner Quotes

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Adam Gollner

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• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Someone

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Tax
  • Effective
  • Global

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Involved

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Dumb
  • Even

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Plants

• And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • True

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Night

• While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Reality

• I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

  

  John Sexton
  • Work
  • Lies

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Nature
  • Creator
  • Motion

• But against this it is thus opposed: the Will of God is the Nature or the Essence of God, because for God the ""to be"" is not one thing, ""to will"" the other; and for that reason, just as there is one Essence of Three Persons, so also one Will. Therefore if God by nature is God, He is also by will God; and if the Word of God by nature is the Son of God, He is also by will the Son of God.

  

  Peter Lombard
  • God
  • Nature
  • Son

• ...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • True
  • Missing

• Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

  

  Adam Gollner
  • Nature
  • Eating
  • Homogeneity