I don’t need to know someone with a disability to have compassion for them. And I don’t have to be personally exposed to other cultures and nationalities to have respect for them.

—Kelly Wickham

Tags: Compassion, Culture, Disability, Tolerance

"Let me ask you a question-the same question you should be asking yourself, not only about your love relationship but also your relationship with your children, your boss, your co-workers, your direct reports, and your friends. Do you want the relationship to work? If so then you must take personal responsibility for making it work. And forget the word “trying”. Trying is just a noisier way of not doing something."

—Ken Blanchard

Tags: Relationships, Responsibility

"...sometimes leaders have to choose between being friends and being leaders. Sometimes they have to choose between being stupid and being wise."

—Stephen Prothero

Tags: Choices, Friends, Leadership

According to the researchers, the results suggest that altruistic behavior may originate from how people view the world rather than how they act in it.
"We believe that the ability to perceive other people's actions as meaningful is critical for altruism," Tankersley said.

—Dharol Tankersley

Tags: Altruism, Behavior, Neuroscience, Psychology, World View

“Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.”

—Virginia Satir

Tags: Coping, Excuses, Life, Problems, Success

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

—Virginia Satir

Tags: Creative Tension, Leadership, Life, Mistakes

With every cell in my body, I believe that Open Source is the way forward. Especially when it comes to websites, but also beyond just websites.

—Dries Buytaert

Tags: Development, Dries Buytaert, Drupal, Innovation, Open Source, Programming, Schipulcon

People being told what to do and working for money are never going to match people working for passion and a community.

—Matt Mullenweg

Tags: Development, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Passion, Schipulcon, Wordpress

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

—Pablo Picasso

Tags: Art, Life, Souls

"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed... Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration,"

—Abraham Lincoln

Tags: America, Capitalism, Labor Day

"Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize."

—Saul Bellow

Tags: Politics, Writers

"The inherent rights of Mother Earth are inalienable in that they arise from the same source as existence." It further states that conflicts between the rights of anyb rings, human or otherwise," … must be resolved in a way that maintains the integrity, balance and health of Mother Earth." Laws based on the declaration would demand, for example, that if a corporation pollutes a river, the corporation is obligated to the river to restore it to full ecological health."

—Allen D. Kanner

"After Gods, after revolutions, after financial markets, the body is becoming our truth system."

—Nerve Juvin

"You blame China. You blame India. You blame America. You blame the CEOs, the oil companies, the vague and incoherent 'system,' the international regulatory regimes, the hypocrisy of the left, the righteous of the right, the educators, the economy, your parents, your childhood, your job, your bank account, your mental health, your government, everyone and everything but yourself."

—AdBusters

I am sure some of us have known moments of joy when our egos took a back seat and the child in us was free to laugh and love. Unfortunately, we lose our innocence too soon and most unfortunately, we prize this loss. We don't want to be innocents, for that leaves us open to being ridiculed and hurt. We want to be sophisticated - that allows us to feel superior. Sophisticated people seem to have the most fun: partying, drinking, being a little wild, denying limits. What have the innocents got? An open heart, simple pleasures, faith. How much more alluring to have a sharp mind: to know all of life, the lows, as well as the highs; to have have power, be admired, feel special.

—Alexander Lowen

To be successful, the artist in any field has to be in the right place at the right time. The right time is in the lap of the gods, but any mother's son or daughter can work his/her way to the right place and wait.

—Stephen King

Tags: Artist, Hard Work

"It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential."

—Deborah Rozman

Tags: Software Development, Technology, Wisdom

It’s a red flag to me if there’s just too much consensus and not enough dissent. I feel like in any human community there’s always dissent because people just disagree. Anytime there doesn’t appear to be dissent, it means that the corporate culture has just shifted way too much toward consensus. That means the leadership just doesn’t welcome dissent enough.

—David Sacks

Tags: Business, David Sacks, Management, Yammer

"If you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do. That's the key to the whole thing."

—Bill Cunningham

Tags: Fashion, Film, Mfah, New York, Photography, Vogue

"Fashion is the armor to survive everyday life."

—Bill Cunningham New York

Tags: Fashion, Film, Mfah, New York, Photography, Vogue