“If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.” IfsNeedsLooksBookGovernmentRiskAreasInvestmentLibraryAccessInequalityPhilanthropyCarnegie Author:Melinda Gates
“Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.” IfsWaterResourcesAreasCleanAccessHardestGrantedSimplestClean WaterRural AreasThings We Take For Granted Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingKindHas BeensSocialVoiceAbilityHeardMediaInformationCommunicationDevelopmentAreasEntertainmentSocial MediaAccessCollaborationEfficiencyAccess To Information Author:Bill Gates
“I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.” ThinkingLittlesPersonsLife IsGrowsParentRealizingEmotionSeeingFrontsChangedMinesBecomingAreasAccessFasterReachingPrecious LifeHow Precious Life IsBecoming A Parent Author:Sasha Alexander
“If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.” IfsWayMaySchoolMaterialsInternetAreasDoctorsAccessBest WayBeing The BestGood SchoolGood Doctors Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.” PeopleIfsWayTryingFactsPastValuesHigherWasteResourcesAreasCapacityIncludingSeekingValuableAccessImmigrationIncomeOne WayRangeSheepPeasantsMedievalReceiverPastures Author:James M. Buchanan
“Chicago PD has a rule that if you work in Chicago you have to live in Chicago. Some areas don't have that rule.So oftentimes you get people from different environments that get thrown into environments with people that they never spent time with before in they life. On a daily basis or in their personal life. The only access they had to these type of people was through the media.” PeopleIfsDifferentEnvironmentMediaTypeAreasBasesAccessThrownChicagoPersonal LifeDifferent Environments Author:Michael B. Jordan
“China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.” ThinkingWholeCommonIssuesMajorsAreasThreatChinaAccessNuclearShipsRegionsStabilityProvidingKoreaPacificProliferationNuclear Proliferation Author:Leon Panetta
“Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayLooksDifferentLightWould BeEyeSoundAnimalAirTreeSkyColorTasteRedAreasGreenWaveTongueAccessSensesHeyPerceiveDifferent WaysRadiationSpectrumMoleculesInfrared Book:Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life