Documents Quotes - Page 26

• An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

  Stephen Covey

  Empowering, Purpose, Way

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Flight, Busy, Spare Time

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• Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

  Caryl Chessman

  Light, Names, Two

  Caryl Chessman (1957). “The Face of Justice”

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• The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

  Michele Bachmann

  Slavery, Republican, Founders

  "Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly’ to end slavery" by Sahil Kapur, www.rawstory.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Government, Long

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  New York, Sea, Rising

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Perspective, Documentation

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Wikileaks, Assuming

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them.

  Tim Kaine

  Hacks, Capable

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

  Bill Ayers

  Powerful, Reading, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Video, Sweden

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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