#be

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#business #businesses #competitors #costs #doing

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#back #being #causing #collapsing #destructive

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#being #capital #companies #concentrated #corporations

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #coherent #either #forces #future

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#best #english #how #i #jobs

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#i #i remember #mother #mud #putting

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #came #down #married #me

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#around #authenticity #being #cliche #complacency