Our World Quotes - Page 36

• The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

  Janet Hagberg

  Leadership, Journey, Position Of Power

  Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.273, Sheffield Publishing

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• There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  World

  "Martin Luther King Jr. Was a True Conservative". Washington Post Editorial, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2017.

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• The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Done, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.

  Kennon Callahan

  Live Life, Differences, Giving

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• We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

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• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Way, Sun

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.269, Kshetra Books

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• We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

  Rowan Williams

  Destiny, Guarantees That, Environmental

  "Our duty to the earth" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2009.

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Organization, Giving

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• Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the thing itself that drives physicists onward like an eternally beckoning light that seems so teasingly near. It is always out of reach.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Light, Wave, Beckoning

  "The Grandeur and Limits of Science". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2017.

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Health

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 13, 2011

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• Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Integrity, Men, Wife

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.99, Zed Books

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• Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Moving, Light, People

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• How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts

  Dorothy Ferguson

  Miscarriage, Heart, Bereavement

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• I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Moving, Home, Writing

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• The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Silence, Noise, Today

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• I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Independent, Way, Individual

  "Keep Moving From This Mountain". Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, February 25, 1965.

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• Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

  Jon Foreman

  Order, True Life, Down And

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• We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

  Peter Thiel

  Retail, Might, Madness

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 3, 2012.

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• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  Morris Dees

  Unique, Color, Rainbow

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• The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fearless, Spirit, Personal Life

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

  Shakti Gawain

  Energy, Shifting, Surrender

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  Jack Hanna

  Animal, People, Important

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• We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

  David Lynch

  Goal, Creative, Musician

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