David Graeber Quotes

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

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• What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Now
  • Surface
  • Once

• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Actor
  • Influences
  • Were

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • You
  • Embrace

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

  OMI
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Hidden

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

  

  Kathleen Rose Perkins
  • Business

• To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Faces
  • Strive
  • Certainty

• Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Independent

• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

  

  David Graeber
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