To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive ...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The reason I love the sea I cannot explain -- it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that de...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU People protect what they love.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Natu...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will dis...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human be...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the condit...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea is the universal sewer.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, woul...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a liter...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to real...
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will...
JACQUES COUSTEAU The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish
JACQUES COUSTEAU totally unreasonable.
JACQUES COUSTEAU I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES COUSTEAU If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human be...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under w...
JACQUES COUSTEAU The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
JACQUES COUSTEAU Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
JACQUES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
YVES TANGUY I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the id...
YVES TANGUY I was always pretty good at designing things.
YVES ROSSY As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
YVES ROSSY I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skyd...
YVES ROSSY When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with...
YVES ROSSY For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same r...
YVES KLEIN The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, ...
YVES KLEIN I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
YVES CHAUVIN To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
YVES CHAUVIN My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Ch...
YVES CHAUVIN I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousi...
YVES CHAUVIN Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I...
YVES CHAUVIN There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, ...
YVES CHAUVIN Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a...
YVES CHAUVIN I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
YVES CHAUVIN My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a ce...
YVES CHAUVIN I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technolo...
YVES BEHAR I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in th...
YVES BEHAR It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technol...
YVES BEHAR I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can contr...
YVES BEHAR I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerlan...
YVES BEHAR I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
YVES BEHAR The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportun...
YVES BEHAR Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
YVES BEHAR Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question qui...
YVES BEHAR I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, ...
YVES BEHAR Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's g...
YVES BEHAR Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, ...
YVES BEHAR Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
YVES BEHAR My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
YVES BEHAR Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
YVES BEHAR Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're j...
YVES BEHAR I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world wi...
YVES BEHAR If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
YVES BEHAR Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
YVES BEHAR Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relev...
YVES BEHAR The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making th...
YVES BEHAR Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
YVES BEHAR Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
YVES MONTAND For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. Fr...
YVES BEHAR I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.
YVES CHAUVIN When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
YVES ROSSY Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
YVES TANGUY I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a u...
YVES BEHAR For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. Th...
YVES BEHAR The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which giv...
YVES TANGUY I pray that these ordeals pass for you without leaving bitterness in your heart, the only danger we ...
YVES JéGO Where does the strength of a sovereign really lie? Not in weapons, but in the natural support of his...
YVES JéGO There is a feeling of energy in this accumulation of beauty, a feeling which warms the heart. Your p...
YVES JéGO The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest ...
YVES BEHAR No Bank Qualify! Owner Financing 8% down, 7.99% interest Conejo Valley, Ventura & San Fernando Valle...
YVES BAGGI The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of funct...
YVES BEHAR We tried washing the glue off. It didn't work.
YVES BRUN There are obvious applications since this adhesive works on wet surfaces. One possibility would be a...
YVES BRUN This seems like organized attacks to me. They have real mobile tactics, coming on a scooter, throwin...
YVES BOT Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmakin...
YVES BEHAR I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design bec...
YVES BEHAR I am convinced that this new organization will serve the best interests of our Montreal studio. The ...
YVES GUILLEMOT There are enormous differences between Swiss Jews and those in Germany and Austria, due to the lack ...
YVES KUGELMANN Hudson's Bay board has carefully considered the recommendation by its special committee and advisors...
YVES FORTIER What would happen if we started outsourcing management and kept product development in-house?
YVES HANOULLE Only when you trust people, they will start trusting you.
YVES HANOULLE A shared vision is a state, not a statement.
YVES HANOULLE Only when you trust managers, they will start trusting you.
YVES HANOULLE Coaching is about destabilizing people's boxes: when they can't use their normal "fixed" box, their ...
YVES HANOULLE If you are looking for a silver bullet, be sure you are not the werewolf
YVES HANOULLE The best moment to write a test was before you wrote a feature. The second best moment to write a te...
YVES HANOULLE After considering several offers for the company, (the board) has unanimously endorsed and is recomm...
YVES FORTIER Sunday is different than all the other days. Even the sun is different.
YVES MONTAND We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.
YVES FORTIER The challenge will be to produce large quantities of this glue without it sticking to everything tha...
YVES BRUN Today we have a case in which African journalists -- Liberian-born journalists -- are being accused ...
YVES SOROKOBI The risk to growth seems to be rather balanced. One could have the feeling it could be slowly tilted...
YVES MERSCH We were astonished. We've had all these 80-year-olds sending us their registration by email.
YVES KUGELMANN Most human resource problems started by calling them resources
YVES HANOULLE Thinking about people as resources, is cost based thinking, instead of value based.
YVES HANOULLE The opportunity for the channel is to continue the evolution of becoming trusted advisors.
YVES LALIBERTE Journalists have become extremely important democracy advocates and they will have impact beyond act...
YVES SOROKOBI We've had quite a shining start of the year so the fundamental driver of markets will probably surpr...
YVES MAILLOT My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba div...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, she...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water th...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on t...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtu...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't r...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming &#...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to ex...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The quest...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the le...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caugh...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see peo...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The goal of each EarthEcho Expedition is to inspire and empower youth around the world with the know...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocea...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. T...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many chil...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in ...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Some parts of our oceans, like the rich and mysterious recesses of our Atlantic submarine canyons an...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENT We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENT I'm so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENT I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so...
YVES SAINT LAURENT A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENT It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENT I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, t...
YVES SAINT LAURENT I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENT I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a wo...
YVES SAINT LAURENT I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENT Dressing is a way of life.
YVES SAINT LAURENT We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, t...
YVES SAINT-LAURENT It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT Fashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENT Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
YVES SAINT LAURENT The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. ...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope...
YVES SAINT LAURENT To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the sufferin...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrake...
YVES SAINT-LAURENT [*Haute couture implies precision in lines] Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generat...
YVES SAINT LAURENT If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, thin...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP [W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus parti...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something t...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people,...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on.
YVES SAINT LAURENT A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically ...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENT I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure ...
YVES SAINT LAURENT Fashion fades. Style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENT Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any mo...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP Fashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. The...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing ...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT-LAURENT Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we s...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT-LAURENT Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it ...
JEAN-YVES LELOUP