One by one, we can contribute to a growing national dialogue about personal values and civic ideals. One by one, we can help to revive the art of 'deep listening.' And, together, I'm confident we will discover that what can unite is so much greater than what can potentially divide,
Larry Vanderhoef
Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Jane Heard. ONE We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how it... DONELLA H. MEADOWS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s... CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal... CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the... CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds. CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive. CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya! CAN YüCEL Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do LYN YUTANG That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important ... DAVID AMRAM If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civili... SAAIF ALAM The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we do this job right, and we have the ability to do so, we can allow the people of this country t... DICK ARMEY just as we endure personal tragedies, we can endure natural tragedies and collectively we can make a... BETTY CLARK Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN We can be hurt by one another but we can also be healed by one another SHIGURE (FRUITS BASKET) Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyon... WILL ADVISE In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask... NORMAN MACLEAN One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the bes... HARRY HEPNER One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the bes... JEROME K. JEROME We hope that the concert will serve to unite the community. The music we've chosen is uplifting, and... ROBERT HANSON Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. GEORGE S. PATTON Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ... BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can... BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...... BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...W... BARBARA SHER Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more t... DAN CHAON Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con... WILLIAM JAMES We've formed three committees. One is actively searching for new ownership, one is working towards g... TED HELLARD We're going to reach out to the existing civic associations and to the areas that don't have one now... DAVE PAUL I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I'm sure that students will ask 'what can we do to make a difference here.' And what they can do is ... JEN PSAKI What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ... ABRAHAM VERGHESE Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST We discover what we can do and then we go about finding if what we can do fits what we need to say. DANIEL STEIN You don't know, oh, oh You don't know you're beautiful. ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong. KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums. DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ... ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be Your Life Your Voice Your Reason To Be My Love My Heart... ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the... DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get... DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else, DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none, DAY ONE big, medium and small. DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues... DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ... ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and... ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An... ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi ! ONE DIRECTION We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going... RICK PERRY The search for a God of our own understanding is one of the most important efforts we will undertake... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W... AKIROQ BROST See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that a... GERALD CHERTAVIAN We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO So the question is can we still live together and hold on to one another while we resolve this issue... GENE ROBINSON I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world ... GRETCHEN CARLSON By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had t... HARUKI MURAKAMI One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a... DAVID LIPSKY I think the maximum that you can be on national television is six, so with four already scheduled we... ART ROONEY Auditions can be very intimidating and that is not what we are all about. That is why we hold auditi... 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TOMMY ADAMS When one adds art, one can reduce the overall risk to a portfolio by 10 percent to 20 percent. MICHAEL MOSES Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ... REBECCA WEST Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so ... REBECCA WEST No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living respon... WENDELL BERRY Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI In 2016, one of the things I really hope to do is discover new talent and help develop it. Take what... TYLER OAKLEY ~ Always keep the one that makes you better, the one that makes you look within, the one that won't ... NICOLE STRANTZ We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what governm... TODD ROKITA We have not closed any doors. We'll be visiting with all the top players, including Vince Young, and... BOB MCNAIR We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. EPICTETUS The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott. DAVID TRIMBLE As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? ... PAUL MARTIN Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on pe... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Maybe it's less about what we can do than about how much we can love. More about walking with others... CINDEE SNIDER RE If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, t... NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more t... ADELLE DAVIS We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more t... ADELLE DAVIS Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
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