"I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating with political leaders, much in the same way that acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights' movement were really acts of political communication, trying to get laws changed rather than based on the thought that the individual action would really change the practices of segregation."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Dale Jamieson

#Communication Quotes #Leader Quotes #Political Quotes

“It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.”
“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”

Source : Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press
“If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.”
“Time is the metre, memory the only plot.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.231, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.”
“This world is a comedy, not Life.”
“Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”

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