"If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of respect. Show your respect for other people's efforts. Promote a culture of equality, too, where everybody's opinion matters. Tell stories."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Dacher Keltner

#Gratitude Quotes #Effort Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.”
“Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.”

Source : Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”
“So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.”

Source : "Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology". John Templeton Foundation Intreview, capabilities.templeton.org. 2006.
“I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.”
“Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.”
“I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.”
“Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.”

Source : "Jennifer Lopez & Casper Smart: Age Is Nothing but a Number" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.
“What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.”

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