Charles Eisenstein Quotes

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Charles Eisenstein

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• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Best
  • Progress
  • Engagement

• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Community
  • Media
  • Trans

• I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• Our party needs the youth but the youth also need the parties to help them organise. Neither will succeed in overthrowing this regime without the other. We don't want the international community to label our revolution an Islamic one.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Help
  • Community
  • Party

• We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time
  • Live
  • Real

• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Community

• We want to create a community of girls who will be empowered to become catalysts for transformation in their communities.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Community
  • Transformation

• It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Community
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • American
  • Community
  • Health

• In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • World
  • Long
  • Community

• Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Good
  • Business
  • Job

• I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.

  

  Boomer Esiason
  • Business
  • Small
  • Community

• Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • She
  • Mentor

• It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Remember
  • Computer
  • Fabulous

• As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

  

  Dave Morin
  • World
  • Innovation

• There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Life
  • Age

• The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Community
  • Abundance
  • Isolation