Quotes About Community

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what's going on.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.

Mathematics is Open Source.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.