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Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.
Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.
Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
No university is the best place to execute every mission and no one company the best place to execute every mission.
If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.
Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.
In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.
Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.
Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.
The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.
Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.
Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.
...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.
If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.