Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I do get free stuff.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
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We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
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Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
