“We need not think alike to love alike.”
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
“Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.”
“Alaska Native leadership recognized that the core product is something bigger than just tests, diagnoses, pills and procedure. It is about human beings and relationships—messy, human, longitudinal, personal, trusting, informing, respecting and accountable relationships.”
“There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.”
“Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.”
“A governing board is responsible for assuring that the health center survives in its marketplace while it pursues its mission.”
“Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.”
“To know someone here or there with whom you feel there is understanding in spite of differences or thoughts expressed – that can make of this earth a garden.”
“For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it…. For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way. For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door.”
“Our progress as a species rests squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told are valuable. Person 10 determines for himself what has value.”
“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
‘Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty,
We are free at last!’”
“True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once she grows up.”
“Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.”
“Reproductive Justice is the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic and social well-being of women and girls, and will be achieved when women and girls have the economic, social and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, sexuality
and reproduction for ourselves, our families and our communities in all areas of our lives.”
“One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child.”
“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprises of its own unfolding.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“To love what you do and feel that it matters— how could anything be more fun?”
“Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?”
“Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we’re choosing not to take flight…”
“All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.”
“While flow can occur under a variety of different circumstances, researchers have found that the specific characteristics of this state are quite uniform and stable: the same characteristic features of this state are present in any given activity or setting. There is also a particular set of conditions that are required to create this state. Flow arises when we are engaged in an activity that we feel is important, meaningful to us, and worth doing. Flow is more likely to occur when there are clear-cut goals to the activity, and we receive some kind of immediate feedback about our progress as the activity unfolds. The task must be challenging and require skills, but there must be just the proper balance between the challenge and our capabilities—people in flow feel that their skills are being fully engaged in the task at hand. And even though the project may be challenging and require skills—at that moment it feels effortless. While in flow, we find ourselves engaged in the activity for its own sake alone, not for any external rewards we might receive. The task is intrinsically rewarding, in and of itself.”
“The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
“We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on the world. The world is its own magic.”
“Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You’ve spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?”
“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something that you are convinced should be done.”
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