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“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”

“Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.”

Giving Choices Individual Influence Circumstances Limits Negative Midst Employers Individual Choice

Author:Shawn Achor

“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.”

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”

“From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.”

Giving Real States Used Certain Culture Individual Struggle Taken Advantage Independence Tired Spares Exceptional Exhausting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.”

People Giving May Form Spirit Individual Community Principles Identity Dignity Fundamentals Remains Settlement Philanthropic Reciprocal Fundamental Principles Residence

Author:Lillian Wald

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest”

“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.”

World Giving Believe Moments Care Beautiful Hate Dies Individual Left I Believe Social Grows Imagination Vision Horror Greed Insight Envy Noble Pursuit Gentle Mundane

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.”

Men Giving Stills Together Three Individual Liberty Rights He Man Sacred Property Slave Fruit Bounds Deny Protected Arbitrary Worth Living Interference Badges Life Worth Living

Author:George Sutherland

“For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.”

Needs Giving Believe Individual Wife Citizens Benefits Built My Wife Partners Corporate Corporations Giving Back

Author:Mark Walter

“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”

Giving Individual Mass Labor Salvation Noble Approval

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.”

Giving Persons Young Individual Opinion Finest

Author:Donald Bren

“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.”

Giving Believe Bigs Reality Able Individual I Believe Perspective Big Picture

Author:Mick Ebeling

“As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.”

People Giving Trying Wells Looks Long Happens Moving Order Individual Giving Up Moving Forward Optimistic Faithful Convince Not Giving Up Keep Trying Being Optimistic

Author:Tom Hanks

“Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.”

Inspirational Giving Feels Humans Spirit Individual Human Beings Demand Sacred Superiors Limitation Fulfilled Human Spirit Individual Strength

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.”

Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God

“Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children's self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power.”

Ifs Giving Children Self Helping Individual Process Self Esteem Healthy Empowerment Increase Responsible Our Children Raises Esteem Be Confident Personal Power Self Reliant

Author:Louise Hart

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