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Saul Alinsky Quotes

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Saul Alinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972

Topics

Beautiful Start Compromise Key You

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

Jenny Shipley

Life Government Decisions Final Us

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Jenna Bush

Think Media Way Who Then Really

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Equity Five Six Nine Joined

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly

Good Yourself Moving Writing Thrive

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

John Updike

Good Hard Make Shot Tee After

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Work Me Think Feel Connection Find

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

Mary Schapiro

Lion Law Rules Done More Write

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Lorene Scafaria

Change Time People Long Long Time

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

Donna Karan

Woman People Started Working Idea

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.

Doug Jones

Love Myself Proud Necklace Out Call

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Boozoo Chavis

Down Earth Down To Earth Creole

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Arthur Koestler

Divided Individual Million Definition