"The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power."

-- Howard Rheingold

#Kids Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.”
“Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.”
“I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.”
“[School reports] were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.”
“How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.”
“I have no family to take care of.”

Source : "South Korea's president-elect faces tough challenges" By Peter Shadbolt, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.
“Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.”

Source : "Thinking in Systems: a Primer" by Donella Meadows, (p. 1), 2008.
“I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'”

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