Selected Quotes
Midway through the First Resilient Communities Video Conference, while conversations and dialogue were taking place at the local sites, we broadcast these quotes. Many folks have asked for them, and we are happy to provide them for your use.
| "The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity." | Ilya Prigogine |
| Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking | |
| If we each bring a basket of food and share it, together we have a feast | Maori saying |
| Words are beautiful, action is supreme | Eldridge Cleaver |
| To know, and not to do is, in fact, not to know | Maya Angelou |
| Yes, of course, the bottom line is important, but the true bottom line is: You're not going to be here that long. Live with purpose. | Maya Angelou |
| If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you always got | |
| Our greatest problems are the result of the difference between how nature works ant the way people think | Gregory Bateson |
| Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results | |
| Those who do not create the future they most want must endure the future they get. | Draper L. Kaufman, Jr, |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge | Albert Einstein |
| Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there." | Rumi |
| No problem can ever be solved by the consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. | Einstein |
| If you wish to be more like someone else, then who shall be like you? | |
| The world is getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster | Tom Atlee |
| The growth ideology is extremely attractive politically because it offers a solution to poverty without requiring the moral disciplines of sharing and population control. | Herman Daly |
| Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know | M.K. Hubert |
| We can no longer have everything we want, but we can be more than we ever imagined | |
| If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going | |
| It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness | |
| We must be the change we wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| The real voyage of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. | Marcel Proust |
| If four to six percent of the people hold a belief . . . that belief becomes part of the fiber of society and does not go away. If that percentage increases to 16-20 percent of the population, then the idea is unstoppable. | Everett Rogers |
| I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. | R.D. Laing |
| The future belongs to those who give the next generation reasons to hope. | Teilhard de Chardin |