- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.
- Fooling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was always the first love, but a lot of people want to be actors, and my goal was, 'Come hell or high water, I will be a part of this world, however I can.' So that just led me to throwing myself into every aspect of narrative storytelling I could.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need more balance in the world - more balance of the feminine and the masculine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a professional snowboarder, my livelihood obviously depends on snow. And for me, traveling around the world, chasing the snow, I see the effects of climate change first hand. You can tell the difference.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking that I could be anything I wanted to be in this world because my mom told me that every single night.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually always say that I have a son and a daughter, but I work more for my son, because I want him to respect women when he gets into the real world like he respects his mom right now.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, I received a National Geographic Expeditions Council grant to go around the top of the world and talk to Arctic people about how they've been impacted by climate change.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020