Willis Harman Quotes

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Willis Harman

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• You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Impact
  • Generosity

• I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Woman

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Giving

• I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Family
  • Giving
  • Giving Back

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Giving
  • Opinion
  • Deep

• 'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Present

• One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Words

• I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Up
  • Giving

• It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Character

• The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Giving
  • Alone
  • Cooking

• What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. That's not just my theory or point of view, it's physics. Life is an energy of giving and receiving... Those that are greedy, hit a road block where they are alone. Give more than you receive and be grateful for those around you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Energy

• It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Family
  • Why
  • Funny

• I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Decision
  • Criticism

• I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

  

  Luke Evans
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Great
  • War
  • Way

• Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

  

  Willis Harman
  • Giving
  • Legitimacy