Community Quotes - Page 10

• It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

  Greg Graffin

  Teenager, Discovery, Order

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• The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

  Cathy Rigby

  Girl, Teamwork, Real

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect". abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• When youre growing up, its always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. Im proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

  Victor Ortiz

  Growing Up, Nice, People

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saúl Williams

  Reflection, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Mean, Exercise, Self

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• No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

  Phil Pringle

  Life Changing, Home, Leader

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

  John Yu

  Years, Australia, Humanity

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• The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

  Bob Maguire

  Should, Appetite, Dedicated

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• Se necesita una sociedad civil... Los incendios forestales pueden lograr el cambio de sociedad a comunidad. Los incendios forestales pueden. Las inundaciones pueden. Los crímenes horribles y los desastres pueden. Los lugares pueden cambiar... pero hace falta sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

  Bob Maguire

  Sangre, sudor y lágrimas

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• Whatever happens... men, women and children have to be prepared to put other people first and thereby create the miracle of the species which is people living together in harmony and putting other people first, before themselves.

  Bob Maguire

  Niños, Hombres, Personas

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• I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.

  Gabi Hollows

  Believe, Helping Others, Thinking

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• The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.

  Ken Wyatt

  Sueño, Espiritual, Niños

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• People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

  Kevin Rudd

  Giving, People, Messages

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• Los valores sencillos y anticuados que emanan del sentido de comunidad son la clave de una gran sociedad. Creo que todos tenemos esa sensación por recuerdos de la infancia, cuando la vida era sencilla. Son esos recuerdos los que deberían impulsarnos a reflexionar sobre nuestros valores.

  Lindsay Fox

  Memories, Believe, Simple

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Pensar, Dar, Personas

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• In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Mick Dodson

  Heart, Mean, Rights

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• Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.

  Tim Costello

  Destiny, Common

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• I am confident there is a cause for everyone. Think of how you can contribute; we all have different skills.

  Simon McKeon

  Thinking, Skills, Causes

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• I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Attitude, Practice, Reform

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• Su respuesta fue notable por su irrelevancia, aunque sólo fuera por eso.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Irrelevance, Remarkable, Response

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• Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Ignorant, Disease, Theory

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• A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Dust, Honor, Victory

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• He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Book, Heart, Sea

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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Sleep, Nurse, Gentle

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• It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Reason, Redress, Broads

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