“The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.” IfsWorldLooksHelpingAbleRememberOpportunityCommunityKindnessEventsActivityQuietDrawsSeasonsShouldersGentleHolidayMidstCompassionateHeroicGesturesFenceChinsPreoccupationActs Of KindnessHoliday SeasonBustleSmall ActsSmall Acts Of KindnessChin UpGentle Touch Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsCommunityReligiousEventsProgramConstantMeetingsTensionStakesIntrovertEmphasisParticipating Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.” StrongCommunityEventsCommunicationHealthyStrong Community Author:Sandy Smith
“In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.” WorldFallCommunityEventsSeasonsFarmsDiversePolishMagnitudeMoscowReverberation Book:Poland: A Novel Source: Poland: A Novel
“Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.” FunSportsCommunityEventsCoupleMetsFoundationGood ThingsDinnerHaving FunHanging OutGuiseMia Author:Brandi Chastain
“I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.” WantGivingReasonHelpingCausesCommunityEventsBest ThingsThings To DoGiving BackDonationGood Causes Author:LeSean McCoy
“I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.” LittlesEndsShowsHomeSongThreeCommunityPrayerEventsTrainingToughBeltsVocal Author:Naomi Scott
“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.” PeopleMenHumansFactsSpiritIndividualTermCommunityTeamLandEventsTaughtMembersIntellectualEthicsConceptsHistoricalEnterpriseInterpretationInteractionPenetratePremisesEcologicalIntellectual LifeHistorical Events Author:Aldo Leopold
“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests” WorldKindArtSocialInterestCommunityChurchEventsDemandArt IsConceptsConsequenceFunctionMeetingsRewardsAtheistDrivenBelieverContemporaryAlternativesLeapArt WorldLeap Of FaithInsidersContemporary Art Author:Sarah Thornton
“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.” IfsWantNeedsIndividualCommunityWonderfulMinutesEventsNew YorkSucceedViolentEnormousExcitementPrivacyParticipationDense Book:Here is New York Source: Here is New York
“The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.” LawValuesCommunityCommonPrinciplesGroupsEventsSeriousInternationalFormerEasternViolationUkraineInternational LawCrimeaAnnexation Author:Angela Merkel
“I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveCommunityEvents Author:Andy Serkis
“I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.” PeopleRealBigsKidsUsedCommunitySawsEventsPaintingPaintReal LifeOnlineForumsMiniaturesBig Events Author:Ansel Elgort
“We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.” WholeTogetherCommunityEventsKeysTownsStartingRenovation Author:Andy Kaufman
“These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.” PeopleKnowsWayKindGovernmentLeftForceFeltBlackCommunityWhiteDestinyKnowingEconomicCenturyEventsIntellectualArroganceNeighborhoodPushingBlack CommunityPushing On Author:Sara Paretsky
“The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.” WorldShouldStatesDoneLawNationsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesGoneEventsTerribleLateResponseInternationalToo LateUnited NationsInternational LawTerrible Events Author:Edward Said
“Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.” BookUsedCommunityEventsTheater Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.” PeoplePlayWantedTogetherCommunityStruggleSawsMissingEventsHigherMusicianMeaningfulGravity Author:Dave Madden
“Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.” DoneBlackCommunityChurchGoneEventsTrumpClintonBlack CommunityBlack Church Author:Donna Brazile
“Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.” CommunityIssuesEventsCrisisFocusedEveningAfghanistanRefugeePhilanthropistRefugee Crisis Author:Khaled Hosseini