#bout

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it. ↗

— Lee Petty

#figure #get #i #into #just

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#bible #human #human nature #learn #living

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death. ↗

— Daniel Petrie

#aging #cocoon #deals #death #directly

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#distracted #energy #focused #i #know

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. ↗

— David Sedaris

#always #been #exaggeration #humorists #i

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. ↗

— Dick Powell

#actor #anymore #being #best #director

We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have. ↗

— Terry Porter

#games #go #guys #into #these

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ↗

— Emily Post

#believe #conversation #eloquent #exchange #exhibition

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. ↗

— John Powell

#blacks #concentrated #likely #live #more