"You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them."

-- Wangari Maathai

#People Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)”
“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”
“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.”
“As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”
“Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.”
“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”
“I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”
“There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.”

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