“Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.” PersonsI CanBookWishCan DoAreasOrganized Author:Elizabeth Strout
“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.” WayFirstsWellsI CanHelpingSongWaterCan DoSimpleAreasStartingRapHelpfulRap Song Author:Jay-Z
“Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.” IfsWayHumansLittlesI CanStoriesCan DoAreasUselessBeing HumanBothered Author:Alice Englert
“If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.” IfsWorldWayTryingLooksHelpingUseProblemCareGoalCan DoChallengesTechnologyCreativeOne ThingPicksAreasOrganizationContactNew WaysVolunteerBetter Place Author:Bill Gates
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.” KindDifferentBigsMovingPoliticalFightingCan DoCommonCitiesCompanyPracticeStruggleExampleTelevisionBuildingAreasStrategyCommon SenseSquaresConventionalCablesMosaicsPolitical StruggleCheckerboard Author:Gar Alperovitz
“You can do anything you like - really - but this Sci-Fi is absolutely disciplined, it's Zen, you have to be absolutely focused in an area. You have to zone into an area and you then you can achieve when you get there. It's really weird!” Can DoAchieveAreasFocusedZoneSci FiReally Weird Author:Danny Boyle
“We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.” WantGivingFeelsYearsPersonsSaidI CanAgeFoundCan DoOur LivesAreasProgramDecidedAverageUncomfortableHomelessGiving BackScholarshipCoalitions Author:Farrah Gray
“Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs.” WorldMindBelieveStatesWinningBeliefI BelieveCausesCan DoReligiousOur LivesConversationAreasAccountsNobleDiscourseReligious FaithImmunity Author:Sam Harris
“The decision to leave [Iraq] should be based solely on the judgment of the combatant commanders on the ground who say, "My Iraqi counterparts can now handle this particular area of the country on their own with minimum American support or with no American support." When they can do that, we should leave.” ShouldCountryCan DoDecisionSupportParticularJudgmentAreasIraqHandleMinimumCommandersCounterparts Author:Duncan Hunter