Quotes About Community

Heaps of presents. People are so

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Whenever there is unity in diversity, then we are free to be ourselves; it cannot be done in isolation; we need each other.

Most people had nobody to share excitements and to celebrate with.

a piper from the area called John Paul. Of course he did. Everyone knew

caterers, no, people

Things will always be desperate while old people don't make any move to change them,' Clio said.

Sophisticated investors subscribed to newsletters such as Fred Hickey's Hi-Tech Strategy letter, Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letter, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, Marc Faber's Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, or welling@weeden, a newsletter that began circulating in 1999, featuring interviews with some of the best minds in the financial community.

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky--but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by "we" I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.

No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones.