Do we have the will to make poverty history?
It wouldn’t cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world’s leaders won’t act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can’t afford the basics of survival.
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.