Elisa Sednaoui Quotes

I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it.

Elisa Sednaoui

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• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Sometimes
  • Same
  • Criticism

• I do think that all of us think in poems.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Poems

• Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Why
  • Daily

• The American elite does not have any real image of peace - other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • American
  • War

• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  

  Vernor Vinge

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

  

  Kehlani
  • Sex

• Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

  

  Frank Herbert

• When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.

  

  David Ige
  • Money
  • Support

• I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Good
  • Party
  • Celebrity

• Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Fall

• You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Ego

• I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Adam West

• I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Chicago

• I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Good
  • Nature

• What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Marionette, but that he had become a real live boy!

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Live
  • Joy
  • Boy

• I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it.

  

  Elisa Sednaoui
  • Live
  • Future
  • Don't Want