David Rockefeller Quotes

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Rockefeller

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We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Sue Hubbell

LiveBeautifulStepWorldLonely

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Steve Nash

AdversityUps And DownsClassicRight

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Ruth St. Denis

GodYouAllahUrgeWhichRhythmic

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

PastI AmHouseSmellOutGet

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Clint Eastwood

ProblemsYouLateFindActorNever

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Bob Goodlatte

BusinessMoneyDoorLawyersKnow

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Ashley Greene

LifeThinkBetterMysteryKindUs

I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

Audra McDonald

SomeoneNowWayMentorsLuckyNeed

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Allan Savory

TechnologySpaceComputersClothes

Innovation means change.

Sebastian Thrun

ChangeInnovationMeans

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

Tullian Tchividjian

CultureThinkPoliticalActivismToo

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

Timbaland

MeEasyHardMarried

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