World Quotes - Page 984

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

"Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.

I've never really understood how people cannot value the future, or think that the world is going down a fast slippery slope of degradation. No, I don't think so; this is just what it's going to take to wake us up, and allow us to do what our ancestors did. You know, our ancestors brought us here by tooth and claw. A lot of people perished, a lot of pre-humans perished. Life has never been easy. Why should it be easy for us?

What visual information does is it creates priorities. You cannot know with certainty what lies behind something else. There are very few transparent materials in the natural world or the built environment. And so we deal with things superficially, and we deal with what's in front of us, not what's behind our head that we can't see, or to the left or the right. Visualists are often linear and timeline-oriented, whereas the natural condition and the natural way of problem-solving throughout evolution is to be multitasking.

The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape and cause species compression in the tropics and cause mass species extinction - you know, all these huge changes. In terms of evolution, every species is doomed to eventual extinction. The natural world is constantly changing. So, to deal with "environmental problems," in quotes, totally misses the issue. That is not the way we want to define our problem if we're going to find our solution.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.

Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.