David Korten Quotes

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

David Korten

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PowerStrongGlobalizationPlace

I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

John Shelby Spong

LifeValueWorldBookBibleMy Life

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Mary Wesley

PeopleShortDieStopBoringBecome

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

Jonathan Ive

FoodExperienceBlameBadWhyUs

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

Doris Day

AnimalWorldI CanStopNeverGoing

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Colin R. Davis

WorkStandDoingBackWayTry

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Clay Aiken

PositiveFamilyLongFallGoWant

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

Ashwin Sanghi

WordsSchoolI AmLanguageFeelNew

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

Allan McNish

YourselfCompetitionComfort ZoneYou

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Seth Gabel

PathTeenMeUnderstandMoreTake

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.

Thomas Frank

LeaderCityRoadBackSellingRight

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

Nouriel Roubini

NatureSomeoneWayThingsPessimist

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Nikki DeLoach

CreativeWantArtsSomethingActress

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