“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.” ThinkingMenSimpleAbilityAchievePaperDecentPensYarn Author:Graham Moore
“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsImportantIdeasCharacterHelpingDreamCasesStruggleAchieveWillingJudgingBasesPrejudiceMajorityCoreDecentMidstPresidencyHopes And Dreams Author:Barack Obama
“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.” IfsStillsWould BeBornAchieveStupidPrideProudTraditionDecentBe ProudBreedingSlumsInvertedSnobbishness Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.” ThinkingWantHumansPersonsEasyGoalChallengesHuman BeingsRichAchieveFashionDecentStayingGet RichEasy To GetAchieving Your Goals Author:Katharine Hamnett
“[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science.... As long as we have a functioning political left, we still have a chance to achieve our country, to make it the country of Whitman's and Dewey's dreams.” LongStillsCountryFactsDreamWantedLawPoliticalLeftChanceMoralAchieveGods WillOur CountryDecentCivilizedSubstitutesHumanistEducatorUtopianWaltKnowledge Of GodCivilized SocietyMoral Law Author:Richard Rorty
“The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.” MatterLinesSimpleAchieveFrontsPositionProductsReturnTruth IsCostSurpriseRewardsLoyaltyDecentGoodsInvitingMerchandise Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.” ChildrenCareSchoolValuesParentTeachTeacherAchieveDecentConsistency Author:Marian Wright Edelman