Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 16

• Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Waiting, Listening, Asks

  "Is 'Patient Capitalism' The Answer To Poverty?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 18, 2013.

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• Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, Harder, Provoking

  "Patient capitalism". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2007.

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• Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.  Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.  Read this book.

  David F. Swensen

  Life Lesson, Book, Community

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• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

  Pope Francis

  Stress, Dignity Of Work, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Levels, Looks, Theater

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Broken, Innovation

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• There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Low Income, Individual

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• It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

  Martin Niemoller

  Long, Enemy, Provoking

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• I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Men, World

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

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• First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

  Martin Niemoller

  Catholic, Lasts, Firsts

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• I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  World, African Continent, Continents

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• The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Provoking, Solutions

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• Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Children, Hero, Blood

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• I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

  Judy Dater

  Wrinkles, People, Challenges

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• For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Thinking, Unity

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• 

  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• The world is one big data problem.

  Andrew McAfee

  Data, World, Problem

  George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

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• Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?

  Steve Lohr

  Math, Data, Brain

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• Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

  David Mccandless

  Data, Oil, Data Science

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• Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Mind, Misunderstood

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.

  Lydia Davis

  Baby, Loss, Dark

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• Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Book, Reality

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• Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Fun, Attention, Happens

  Source: popculturezoo.com

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