Quotes About Community

old Carnegie building

the three red lights in Saddlestring without seeing it.

old Carnegie library

Think globally and act locally.

Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

undersheriff

Palo Alto, California.

from Brooklyn,

local jury trial'—that's the vicinage.

Dakota shrugged. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but something is. You look ahead of us at all those people on horses in this setting, and you think, what a perfect thing. But what you don't know is what's going on in everyone's head, and what they might be thinking about everyone else. "That," she said, "is the reason I prefer horses.

Independence is a fine thing. But having people in your life who love you and need you is a hell of a lot better.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.

We need to help students and parent cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community--and this nation.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

You cannot expect an app dreamed up in a dorm room, or among the Ping-Pong tables of a Silicon Valley incubator, to successfully replace the types of rich interactions to which we've painstakingly adapted over millennia. Our sociality is simply too complex to be outsourced to a social network or reduced to instant messages and emojis.

The more time you spend "connecting" on these services, the more isolated you're likely to become.

we need solitude to thrive as human beings, and in recent years, without even realizing it, we've been systematically reducing this crucial ingredient from our lives. Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.

the second force that encourages behavioral addiction: the drive for social approval. As Adam Alter writes: "We're social beings who can't ever completely ignore what other people think of us."18 This behavior, of course, is adaptive. In Paleolithic times, it was important that you carefully managed your social standing with other members of your tribe because your survival depended on it.

Leisure Lesson #3: Seek activities that require real-world, structured social interactions.

the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement.

I propose and defend the perhaps controversial claim that your relationships will strengthen if you stop clicking "Like" or leaving comments on social media posts, and become harder to reach by text messages.