Quotes About Community

Sternin's strategy was to search the community for bright spots—successful efforts worth emulating.

This is important. This is real. We're in this together. And what we're doing matters.

Love was the early Christians' marketing plan and their business card was joy.

Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.

Co-creation partnerships are free-idea zones because they are neighborhoods of acceptance and goodness.

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Perhaps that is the miracle of stories. They make us realize that we're not alone in our folly and our suffering.

To return to the peaceful forest, its healing green canopies. To return to the ashram community, where everyone trusts and accepts me

one time she heard a policeman giving a belting to teenagers who'd been bullying the boy. Part of her wished someone would do that for her son. When Brendan reached high school age he attended Morwell Technical College, a fifteen-

The dead with the dead, the living with the living.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.

Companies are full of bureaucracy, procedures, and approval processes, a structure designed to defend the integrity of the organization. Communities, on the other hand, form around shared interests and needs, and have no more process than they require. The community exists for the project, not to support the company in which the project resides.

As always, Gary drove in slow circles around the lot, blasting his horn and shouting community-sustaining threats and maledictions.

Nobody cirlces the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.

first responders are usually not the law-enforcement officers or the paramedics that follow them, but the ordinary citizens who happen to be on the scene at the time

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it.

The church was stuffed with mourners, of course. No one from work - I tried to keep my life and my magazine separate - but otherwise everybody Andrew and I knew was there. It was disorientating, like having the entire contents of one's address book dressed in black and exported into pews in non alphabetical order.

If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone.

I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county