"When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives."

-- Ramez Naam

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.”

Source : The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. February 20, 2013.
“That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.51, Open Road Media
“I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived,”
“The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.”
“There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.”

Source : Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers
“You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.”
“When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.”
“I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?”

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