William McDonough Quotes

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

William McDonough

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Look
  • My Life

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

  

  T.I.
  • Independent
  • Agent
  • Sponsors

• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Real
  • Defeated

• When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Take
  • Bus

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Why
  • Power

• A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • People

• Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. This is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Free

• Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Green
  • Impossible

• Hillary Clinton has promised to build on President [Barack] Obama's policies. That means build on Obamacare, build on Dodd-Frank, build on the regulations coming out of the EPA. If that's the case, that will not be good for the economy.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Good
  • Economy
  • Hillary Clinton

• We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

  

  William McDonough
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Green