Willard Gaylin Quotes
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
-
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
-
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
-
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
-
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
-
Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
-
Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
-
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
-
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
-
Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
-
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
-
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
-
I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
-
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
-
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
-
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
-
As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
-
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
-
I always do something that I've never done before.
-
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.
-
I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!
-
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
