Quotes About Community

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

A success unshared is a failure.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.