Our World Quotes - Page 33

• The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Teenager, Spring

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• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Bigger, Whole

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• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Opposites

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Self, Focus

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

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• Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the Creator, Who touches everything and everyone]... When we adore, we plug into infinite dynamism and power. Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs are for destruction

  Peter Kreeft

  Powerful, Church, Nuclear

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• The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  Eddie Obeng

  Motivation, Inspiration, Century

  "Smart failure for a fast-changing world". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.

  Thom Hartmann

  Children, Animal, Yesterday

  "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to personal and global transformation". Book by Thom Hartmann, 1998.

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Needs, May

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• Our world does not need to hear more people talk about God or even about Jesus if those people do not have a lifestyle that reinforces every word they utter. The interesting thing is that the closer we walk in intimacy with God, the less we have to say. Our very lives become a bold and beautiful testimony to the purity, the freedom, and the beauty of the Lord Jesus.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Beautiful, Jesus, People

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• Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Term, Abandon

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• If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Sage, Way

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Oct 04, 2013

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• Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

  Robin Lim

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  "'Mother Robin' wins CNN Hero of the Year" By Kyle Almond, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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• Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, World, May

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from May 20, 2011

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• Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

  Bill Hybels

  Light, Leader, Darkness

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• The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

  Billy Graham

  White, Numbers, Black

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• As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Racism, Different

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• If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Animal, Long

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• When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Blessing, Sound

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Toxins, Poison

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• During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.

  Thomas Berry

  Space, Mind, Vision

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• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

  Eric Stoltz

  Running, Kids, Soon Enough

  "Eric Stoltz: 'I felt really great after I lost my mobile phone'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Responsibility, Way, World

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