Christiana Figueres Quotes

The bottom line (is that) this is an agreement and a path that is protective of growth and development rather than threatening to growth and development.

Christiana Figueres

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• It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Voice

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Know
  • Fiction

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Values
  • Terrorism
  • Attack

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Morning
  • Years
  • Chicago

• I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Success
  • Political

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Nobody

• As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Remember
  • Peace

• I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area... to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Responsibility

• We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • Money

• Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• Savvy, competitive investors able to build, buy, and fix companies will continue to stimulate growth by allowing us to do more with less - the only way to create prosperity.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Growth

• Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

  

  Jacob Lew

• I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Love
  • Pop Culture
  • Elitism

• The bottom line (is that) this is an agreement and a path that is protective of growth and development rather than threatening to growth and development.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Growth
  • Development
  • Agreement