Judith Rodin Quotes

This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1944

Topics

InnovationProgressLegacyFoundation

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

Joanna Lumley

GreatBirdsWorldChanceTreesYou

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

Jean Smart

MoneyJobYouActorBecomeReason

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

John Sculley

TechnologyPersonaliPhoneContent

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Robbie Coltrane

TimePastParentsDieYouBad

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

Robin Trower

DeathArtistCertain

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

Jon Watts

PeopleBuildingThinkComedyTension

I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.

Johnny Flynn

SilenceYourselfGenerosityIdeas

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

Antonio Banderas

WorkBusinessMeBetterBadSaid

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.

Pippa Middleton

RecognitionYouSayOutMayUpside

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Phil Klay

CultureExperienceSimpleWarEasy

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

Paul Watson

FriendsProblemYouNiceNeverAsk

I think I had a lot of people who were like, 'Payal, we love you, but product's not there,' or 'business is not there.' I never gave up, though.

Payal Kadakia

LoveBusinessPeopleThinkYouUp

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