Quotes About Community

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what you eat, someone else cannot eat, so they eat as much as they can. Bakers think that the world is not a zero-sum game—they can just bake more and bigger pies. Everyone can eat more. People trust bakers and not eaters.

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I mention this because some idiot might tell you that Google+ is a "ghost town" (which it isn't) and that you shouldn't bother using it. Google+ is one of the best sources of content

The goal of recruiting evangelists is to build a community around your product. Companies that have such communities include those in the following list. Take a look at what they do, and adapt their programs to your needs. Adobe groups

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.

The upside of paying it forward far outweighs the downside of being exploited.

Resharing is caring!

networking (which is "schmoozing" for goyim)

the first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.

starting a community is like getting a puppy: it sounds like a good idea in the beginning, but you have to clean up after it and train it. Also, when it grows up, it may no longer be cute.

Find Soul Mates The next step is to find some soul mates to go on your adventure—think Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, people love the notion of the sole innovator: Thomas Edison (lightbulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh), Henry Ford (Model T), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop), and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines). It's wrong.

How about first ensuring that people within a twenty-mile radius like the food before worrying about scaling the restaurant?

Remember the opportunities that you were afforded. After you've "made it," provide opportunities to others.

En el mundo hay dos tipos de personas y de organizaciones: los que comen y los que dan de comer. Los que comen quieren un trozo más grande del pastel; los que dan de comer quieren hacer un pastel más grande. Los que comen piensan que si ellos ganan, tú pierdes, y que si tú ganas, ellos pierden. Los que dan de comer creen que con un pastel más grande todo el mundo podría salir ganando.

I am a walking, talking Bombay. … I loved that city then and I love it today.

Héctor Tobar

We made a small place where people could go and let go of their pain, where they could pray for the miners, and start to forget that they might be dead," Carmen says.

Todos los huevones!

ESTAMOS BIEN EN EL REFUGIO. LOS 33.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up. These people are full of rumours. They love rumours. Paterson stood watching the bridge. Their whole life is a rumour.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.