Quotes About Community

open-innovation communities connect latent supply (talent not already employed in that field) with latent demand (products not already economical to create the usual way).

One of the first mistakes budding Makers make when they start to sell their product is not charging enough. It's easy to see why, for all sorts of reasons. They want the product to be popular, and they know the lower the price, the more it will sell. Some may even feel that if the product was created with community volunteer help, it would be unseemly to charge more than it costs. Such thinking may be understandable, but it's wrong.

The urban theorist Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that huge cites create environments where small niches can flourish.

In "open-source" software, where anyone can contribute to a project, the mantra is "With enough eyes, all bugs are trivial." Likewise for astronomy: With enough eyes, we'll see the asteroid with our name on it—and early enough to do something about it.

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline . Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen.

Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at.

When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone.

A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. - WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890

Water that's not moving becomes stagnant. And if there's not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.

I pray for unity among those that love You. I pray that You'd open their eyes so that they can see Your truth. I pray for Your hand of protection and guidance.

What happened when these people sang was more than just humans hitting notes. The music seemed to come from somewhere deep inside and when their voices united, it felt like goosebumps on the soul. Something like joy bubbled up from inside her and leaked through her eyes.

You think the choices you make just affect you and the other person, but you don't realize how one choice ripples toward everybody. You included.

Knowledge not shared remains unknown

Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful - a word I recently invented - a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow! -Mr. Lemoncello

Divisions among the oppressed, Hasan said, are gifts to the oppressor.

Journalism is about giving a voice to those who without us won't have a voice

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Europe is a miracle.

God gave me good people around me, and He gave me size. It's kind of a miracle, really.

We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.

Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,' you're going to talk about heartbreak and loss and all of those things that people don't talk about as a community.

Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.

If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that's going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.