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We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers – Med Jones
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. – Anne Besant
'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around. – John W. Vessey, Jr.
A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning. – Paul Ingram
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. – Walter Lippman
Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. – Matrix, The
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. – Eliel Saarinen
Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound – Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Stephen Jobs
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency. – William Carlos Williams
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. – A. Alvarez
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. – Noam Chomsky
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. – Bertrand Russell
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions. – Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions. – Albert Einstein
If you are living in a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful environment, you know not where to stay, inside or outside? – Mehmet Murat ildan
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. – Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. – Ansel Adams
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. – Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. – Anne Besant
Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator. – Werner Saunders
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. – Carl Jung
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. – Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system! – Mehmet Murat ildan
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine

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