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Donella Meadows Quotes

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 13, 1941 - February 20, 2001

Topics

Politics Energy Political Analysis

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

Matt Rosendale

Responsibility I Am Conservative Who

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

John Webster

Ambition Diamonds Fall Lust Blood

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

Ron Funches

Decision Child Me Talking Lady Her

I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.

Mike McCready

Keep Going Me Challenges Comfort Zone

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

Michael Ondaatje

Yourself Opinion Someone You Want

I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.

Bryan Greenberg

Love Everything Competitive Something

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

Art Fire Spark Artist Born Create

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

Poetry Serious Reason Us Cannot

One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'

Allison Pearson

Girl Me Writing Thought Friends Go

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Timothy Dalton

Good Stress Pressure Sometimes Write

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Rick Moody

Love Kid Always Books Did Comic

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.

Richard Cohen

Past Pain Anger Angry Present Empty