Michael Nutter Quotes

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Michael Nutter

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CommunityResponsibilityTogetherMe

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

Meir Soloveichik

GodFireManWorldPossibleOut

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

Robert Redford

PeopleBetterYouGoQuitHardship

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

John Shelby Spong

LifeGoodEvilWhateverEnhances

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

Suga

SuccessTryPopularityInfluenced

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

Steve Martin

ShortTallSkinnyStarDemocrats

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

MistakeAmericaGiant

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Shunryu Suzuki

MindThinkYouBodyWrongYour Body

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

Roisin Murphy

SomeoneSitHerLaurels

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Michel Gondry

WalkWallsRevengeFrustrationStory

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Lisa Ling

LiveCultureInsecurityNoiseWhere

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diana Wynne Jones

RainbowSpeakEnoughYouPossible

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Clayton M. Christensen

WorkTogetherPeopleManagementYou

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