"Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed."

-- Achim Steiner

#World Quotes #Agendas Quotes #Environment Quotes

“I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies â€“ unconscious strategies â€“ to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too â€“ sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling â€“ and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.”
“Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.”
“You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.”
“I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.”
“Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.”
“The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”
“You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love”

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