Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Love
  • Want

• For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Environment

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Environment

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Environment
  • Quality

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Kind

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Environment
  • Someone

• Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Environment
  • Living
  • U.S.

• There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Party
  • Crazy
  • Environment

• Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Place

• Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Environment

• I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • People
  • Up
  • Environment

• My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

  

  Paul Verhoeven
  • Comedy

• Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и преумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!

  

  Yuri Gagarin

• All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • Leadership
  • Capacity
  • Colleagues

• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Environment