c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
— Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell
Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way, who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.
— Heather Simmons
Truth be told, nobody thought Dell’s direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, “I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, ‘There’s no way. Who’s gonna buy a computer over the phone? They’re complicated.
— Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell
Like most events that change the world, it didn't seem interest to anyone except the people willing to do the work.
— Berkun, Scott
Like most other events that change the world, it didn't seem interesting to anyone except the people willing to do the work.
— Berkun, Scott
If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
embrace vulnerability
—  find support
In a gentle way, you can shake the world
— Mahatma Gandhi
In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to ‎innovate will die
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.
— Priyavrat Thareja
Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.
— Chai Jing
Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.
— David J. Greer, Wind In Your Sails
Innovation = Ideas + Execution + Adoption
— Jag Randhawa, The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation
Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,
— Nikhil Sharda, Sans Destination
The new world with more technology, more connectivity, more innovation, and more advantages is less forgiving than the one we left behind
— Lillian Gregory
It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.
— Auliq Ice
It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.
— Hugo Ball, Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor
Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Master
Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist
—  the science at the mind of scientist
The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.
— Jason Zweig
Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities designed to be invoked by known parties in pre-determined contexts. Of course, we don't mean that all push approaches are software programs - we are using this as a broader metaphor to describe one way of organizing activities and resources. Think of thick process manuals in most enterprises or standardized curricula in most primary and secondary educational institutions, not to mention the programming of network television, and you will see that institutions heavily rely on programs of many types to deliver resources in pre-determined contexts.Pull approaches, in contrast, tend to be implemented on "platforms" designed to flexibly accommodate diverse providers and consumers of resources. These platforms are much more open-ended and designed to evolve based on the learning and changing needs of the participants. Once again, we do not mean to use platforms in the literal sense of a tangible foundation, but in a broader, metaphorical sense to describe frameworks for orchestrating a set of resources that can be configured quickly and easily to serve a broad range of needs. Think of Expedia's travel service or the emergency ward of a hospital and you will see the contrast with the hard-wired push programs.
— John Hagel  III
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.
— Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.
— Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.
— Maurice Duffy
It was the combination of EC2 and S3 - storage and compute, two primitives linked together - that transformed both AWS and the technology world. Startups no longer needed to spend their venture capital on buying servers and hiring specialized engineers to run them. Infrastructure costs were variable instead of fixed, and they could grow in direct proportion to revenues. It freed companies to experiment, to change their business models with a minimum of pain, and to keep up with the rapidly growing audiences of erupting social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.
— Maurice Duffy
Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.
— Vijay Govindarajan, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quiet a long period now! You too can fly!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media — old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines — that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again.
— Ian Lamont
To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.
— David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time
There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and allow people everywhere to work from almost anywhere, turns out to flourish in fairly compact geographic locations.
— Bruce Katz, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a large corporation. After one year, the leader feels though he is trying to make innovation happen inside an organization that is, in every way, determined to fight his every move.
— Chris Trimble, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
— Richard Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller
Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better.
— Saji Ijiyemi
Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
— Orrin Woodward
In School of One, students have daily "playlists" of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on that student's readiness and learning style. For example, Julia is way ahead of grade level in math and learns best in small groups, so her playlist might include three or four videos matched to her aptitude level, a thirty-minute one-on-one tutoring session with her teacher, and a small group activity in which she works on a math puzzle with three peers at similar aptitude levels. There are assessments built into each activity so that data can be fed back to the teacher to choose appropriate tasks for the next playlist.
— Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.
— Tony Dovale
IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
— Tony Dovale
The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!
— Tony Dovale
Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution
— Tony Dovale
The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.
— Tony Dovale
The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.
— Sukant Ratnakar
I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.
— Tony Dovale
Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore... . Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.
— Tony Dovale
Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
— Tony Dovale
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
— Donald Maass, The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great
When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.
— Tim Fargo
It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.
— Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity
Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. " People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, " he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.
— Alex Scarrow, Afterlight
The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.
— Krishna Saagar
The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.
— Robert Penn, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.
— Avinash Narula
What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.
— Mario Stinger, Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended
Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.
— Paul Sloane
There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.
— Gavin Newsom, Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics
— Coco Chanel
Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
— Jack Dorsey
People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation...
— Lionel Suggs
Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.
— Benjamin M. Strozykowski, Psychic Skin Volume 2
We interrogate the world by making.
— Bill Bendyshe Burnett
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
— Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal: The Duchess of Palliano, Vittoria Accoramboni, The Abbess of Castro, Vanina Vanini and The Cenci
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
— Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.
— Ani DiFranco
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
— Stephen R. Covey
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
— Gene Roddenberry
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
— Desmond Tutu
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.
— Jean Vanier, Community And Growth
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
You make a difference about your life it's a knock on the head of mind setting your life you see the stars they shine across the way you build a bridge you make it shine the only way to make a difference is to help the community!
— Demi Lovato
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
— Tony Kushner
Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?
— Zadie Smith
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.
— Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.
— Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.
— Dean Koontz, Relentless
It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her life, like a familiar cafe that exists someone outside geography and beyond time zones. There are perhaps twenty regular posters on F:F:F:, and some muchlarger and uncounted number of lurkers. And right now there are three people in Chat. But there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. the hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counmter-purposes, deter her.
— William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.
— Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation
Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial.
— Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
— Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving.
— Henning Hansmann, Education for Special Needs: Principles and Practice in Camphill Schools
It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in similar patterns. Many communities are made up of the same kind of people to the extent that we intentionally have to seek people whose stories are completely different from ours.
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many emotions there as there were people. And they did not expect commands to be arbitrary, so they had no practice in disobeying them. Their inexperience saved the passenger's life.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
— Mollie Marti
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
— Michael J. Cohen, The World Peace University Field Guide to Connecting With Nature
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.
— bell hooks, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").
— Fletcher Pratt, Tales From Gavagan's Bar
The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.
— G.R. Reader, Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.
— Michael Kenny, Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemas of Difference
For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. Like a symphony, coffee's power rests in the hands of a few individuals who orchestrate its appeal. So much can go wrong during the journey from soil to cup that when everything goes right, it is nothing short of brilliant! After all, coffee doesn't lie. It can't. Every sip is proof of the artistry -- technical as well as human -- that went into its creation.
— Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
— George Herbert, The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
The village is coming back, like it or not.
— David Brin, Tomorrow Happens
But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment -- our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!' -- Congar
— Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.
— Vijay Prashad, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain itself, commercial agriculture will have to reorganize its social and economic structure as well as its technological base and production methods in a way that reinforces these values.
— Marty Strange
Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled.
— Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
— John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.
— Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder
All community is in some way imagined
— Stan Grant, Talking To My Country
impossible situations can arise on other planets too. We don’t need to think that we’re the only ones who struggle and fight.
— Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories
For Jesus the home is not what defines the table
—  the table is what defines the home.
As I stand there, staring absently at the stirring pot on the wall, I remember Greg’s words all those years ago: No one could create peace for me. Yes, I did the tough work to heal on my own. But in the process I’d missed the finer point. An insular life is just another wall. The realization rushes over me: There can be no peace without community. Real community – people to count on, and who could count on me.
— Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
The call of community isn't about finding people just like us, or at the exclusion of any people. Community in the biblical sense is clearly about unlike people finding Christ at the center of their inclusive life together. Thus, issues of community reflect powerful dynamics of how God brings very diverse people together for his glory and his witness in the world.
— Hugh Halter & Matt Smay, The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community: The Posture and Practices of Ancient Church Now
Networks Connect... Communities Care!
— Ted Rubin, How to Look People in the Eye Digitally
The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to be a true part of this community means you are being directed, you are being guided, you are being asked to make connection. The Bible is a spiritual director. People must read Scripture as a word for themselves personally, and ask where God speaks to them. Finally, individual Christians are also spiritual directors. A spiritual director is a Christian man or woman who practices the disciplines of the church and of the Bible and to whom you are willing to be accountable for your life in God.
— Henri Nouwen
I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
— James Rozoff
Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.
— Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can stop shadowing us. Our lives are touched by those who lived centuries ago, and we hope that our lives will mean something to people who won't be alive until centuries from now. It's a great "chain of being," someone once told me, and I think our job is to do the best we can to hold up our small segment of the chain connected, unbroken. Our arms are linked - we try to be neighbors of His, and to speak up for his principles. That's a lifetime's job.
— Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.
— Jean Vanier
I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.
— Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.
— Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Libraries are, at heart, helpful and kind providers. It is hard for those who perhaps don't feel the need to visit their local libraries to understand what a vital service they provide for communities and individuals who do - and those who do are often the most vulnerable.
— Robert Popple
This is why I prefer Queens to any other place. The borough of my parents and small business owners is populated by people who know how to work around the system when it tries to fuck you.
— Jessica Valenti, Sex Object
So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community. And in the fibres of that blanket there were threads of obligation that meant that one could not ignore the claims of others. Nobody should starve; nobody should feel that they were outsiders; nobody should be alone in their sadness.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean
— Jean Vanier
Rather than equating the terms 'local' and 'cosmopolitan' with geographical areas (rural and urban respectively), sociologist Wade Clark Roof suggests that these terms refer to character types who can be found in a diversity of settings in the United States. Locals are strongly oriented toward community or neighborhood, favor commitments to primary groups (family, neighborhood, fraternal and community organizations), tend to personalize their interpretations of social experience, and are more traditional in their beliefs and values. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, are oriented toward the world outside the residential community, prefer membership in professional or special interest organizations, and are more open to social change and more tolerant of diversity in belief than locals. While a disproportionate number of locals are found in smaller communities, studies indicate that other factors - such as length of residence in a community, age, and educational level - play an even stronger role in determining orientation.
— Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art
Those who are weak have great difficulty finding their place in our society. The image of the ideal human as powerful and capable disenfranchises the old, the sick, the less-abled. For me, society must, by definition, be inclusive of the needs and gifts of all its members. How can we lay claim to making an open and friendly society where human rights are respected and fostered when, by the values we teach and foster, we systematically exclude segments of our population? I believe that those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us. When we do include them, they add richly to our lives and add immensely to our world.
— Jean Vanier, Becoming Human
In 7.81 square miles of vaunted black community, the 850 square feet of Dum Dum Donuts was the only place in the "community" where one could experience the Latin root of the word, where a citizen could revel in common togetherness. So one rainy Sunday afternoon, not long after the tanks and media attention had left, my father ordered his usual. He sat at the table nearest the ATM and said aloud, to no one in particular, "Do you know that the average household net worth for whites is $113,149 per year, Hispanics $6,325, and black folks $5,677?""For real?""What's your source material, nigger?""The Pew Research Center."Motherfuckers from Harvard to Harlem respect the Pew Research Center, and hearing this, the concerned patrons turned around in their squeaky plastic seats as best they could, given that donut shop swivel chairs swivel only six degrees in either direction. Pops politely asked the manager to dim the lights. I switched on the overhead projector, slid a transparency over the glass, and together we craned our necks toward the ceiling, where a bar graph titled "Income Disparity as Determined by Race" hovered overhead like some dark, damning, statistical cumulonimbus cloud threatening to rain on our collective parades."I was wondering what that li'l nigger was doing in a donut shop with a damn overhead projector.
— Paul Beatty, The Sellout
If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
I had to be strong, for every man and woman in our fair community was here to witness my beloved being put to rest, some with satisfaction, and some with relief. But all would gather an accounting of the events here today, to be relayed at future balls and parlour teas, as a comeuppance for my marrying an outsider.
— Cheryl R Cowtan, Girl Desecrated
When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.
— Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.
— Eknath Easwaran, Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life
Accept each other. Love. Even if it is messy. Live with no regrets. Remember that diversity is our strength. We shouldn't be building walls, we should be tearing them down. Accept each other no matter who we love, how we pray or how we look.
— Johnny Corn
Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging scrutiny to sink us.
— Kristen Henderson
Plenty of people will think you're crazy, no matter what you do. Don't let that stop you from finding the people who think you're incredible—the ones who need to hear your voice, because it reminds them of their own. Your tribe. They're out there. Don’t let your critics interfere with your search for them.
— Vironika Tugaleva
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
— Socrates
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado-masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom - namely, fascism compensated for powerlessness and individual isolation and protected the individual from anxiety-creating situations. If one compare fascism to a neurotic symptom, it can be said that fascism is a neurotic form of community.
— Rollo May
The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!
— Steven Magee
Work for purpose, be for others.
— Worknb
If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.
— Richard Wright, Black Boy
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't make her whole life purpose her man. She understands that he is her counter part to achieving whatever she is to accomplish on this earth with the blessings and talents God has given her. He is part of the plan, not the whole plan.
— Shannon L. Alder
[There] is . . . a problem that bedevils all of us as members of communities of believers. I call this problem our disagreement deficit, and it comes in four parts. . . . First, our communities expose us to disproportionate support for our own ideas. Second, they shield us from the disagreement of outsiders. Third, they cause us to disregard whatever outside disagreement we do encounter. Finally, they quash the development of disagreement from within.
— Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.
— Leslie Ludy, When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure
Pakistan is an Islamic country and the victim of an Easter terrorist attack. Groups like Isis or in this case the Taliban are not about religion. No more than the KKK is about Christianity. These groups are about hate! I did post on the Pakistani attack because it is really important to point out that brown and black people in the middle east and Africa are being killed. Terrorism isn't about Islam. It is about hate. SO let's fight this hate. Let's stand united with our Islamic brothers and sisters who are being slaughtered. Step back from judging a religion you are not exposed to. Understand that we need to work together. ALL faiths. That's how we defeat this
— Johnny Corn
Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
The church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our seasons of intense delight
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Network Gives You Reach… Community Gives You Power!
— Ted Rubin
God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage
—  she cannot be far from prosperity.
The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.
— H.W. Brands
Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
God's glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
If we construct an economy where quantities are controlled, based on the belief there is never enough for all, then we must compete to determine the winners. We begin this with grades in the first grade. There is the presumption that competition is essential and so there must be a normal distribution of grades. All students cannot receive high marks. If I get an A, someone in the class must perform poorly. It is an early lesson in how the marketplace ideology works. In a community organized around abundance, competition will occur, but it is not built into the system as a core design element. In a neighborly culture, the abundance of resources becomes the design element
— Walter Brueggemann, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914