Turn Toward the Problems
"In my experience, there’s just no substitute for actually going and seeing things."
~ Matt Damon
You Have To Have A Strategy
"You have to go through life with more than just passion for change; you need a strategy. I'll repeat that. I want you to have passion, but you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness, but action."
~ Barack Obama
Follow Your Contribution
“Don’t follow your passion. What you take out of the world...is much less important than what you put into the world. Follow your contribution instead. Find the thing you’re great at, put that into the world, contribute to others, help the world be better.”
~ Ben Horowitz
Exercise Your Heart
"Since suffering as well as joy comes with being human, I urge you to remember this: Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering."
~ Parker Palmer
Hidden in Plain Sight All Around Us
"Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education—least in my own case—is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me."
~ David Foster Wallace