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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetitio...
BILL DRAYTON Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
BILL DRAYTON It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
BILL DRAYTON Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing ...
BILL DRAYTON We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTON Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and wa...
BILL DRAYTON Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality acros...
BILL DRAYTON The first - the most obvious (test of a true social entrepreneur) - is are they possessed, really po...
BILL DRAYTON Entrepreneurial quality - is by far the toughest (criterion for a social entrepreneur).. For every o...
BILL DRAYTON Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest un...
BILL DRAYTON I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found i...
BILL DRAYTON We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal wit...
BILL DRAYTON We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally rea...
BILL DRAYTON White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly ...
BILL DRAYTON The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
BILL DRAYTON We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of exampl...
BILL DRAYTON Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides ...
BILL DRAYTON Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build...
BILL DRAYTON You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.
BILL DRAYTON In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil r...
BILL DRAYTON What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a pr...
BILL DRAYTON Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTON Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What n...
BILL DRAYTON An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTON

Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

The coast was clear.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Change starts when someone sees the next step.
WILLIAM DRAYTON

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

And when the Salmon seeks a fresher stream to find;
(Which hither from the sea comes, yearly, by...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attentio...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain; "In love the...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting, With ...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This da...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier, About your head shall ...
MICHAEL DRAYTON We told him we certainly needed an answer by the latter part of this week. We don't want to be left ...
DRAYTON MCLANE

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Fair stood the wind for France, / When we our sails advance, / Nor now to prove our chance, / Longer...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

For that fine madness still he did retain / Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
MICHAEL DRAYTON It hurt personally because I had such admiration for Ken and Enron. But that was the right thing to ...
DRAYTON MCLANE

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

It is too early to put a final loss figure on the event, but the combined insured losses from winds ...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, / And when we meet at any time again, / Be it not seen in...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.
MICHAEL DRAYTON Each year, with our players, I ask them what their goals are. I said, 'Roy, what is one of your goal...
DRAYTON MCLANE He was one of the first to contact me.
DRAYTON MCLANE If we could have gotten that one big hit, we could have won that game. We just didn't get that hit.
DRAYTON MCLANE That just wasn't it. He kept throwing different things at us at the last hour. We never got a bunch ...
DRAYTON MCLANE We're very, very excited about Preston Wilson. His enthusiasm is as sky high as ours is. He wants to...
DRAYTON MCLANE It was our desire to get to the World Series, and we did that. But we wanted to win. Our mission is ...
DRAYTON MCLANE Who told me baseball was easy?
DRAYTON MCLANE It hurt for a minute, but now I'm ready to go. We're still in charge. It will just make it all the m...
DRAYTON MCLANE I think we have a better opportunity than any other team. I think the key time will be the winter me...
DRAYTON MCLANE We didn't blitz at all during the preseason, so we've got a few things up our sleeve.
DRAYTON FLORENCE That's Peyton being Peyton. You have to do extra film work during the week just to get ready for all...
DRAYTON FLORENCE We like to play from ahead. When that happens, teams have to throw a lot to catch up.
DRAYTON FLORENCE We had something like 200 more passes than rushes attempted on us last year because no one could run...
DRAYTON FLORENCE Clinton made the play and I just finished it up. I was just in the right place at the right time.
DRAYTON FLORENCE Bledsoe likes to sit in the pocket and let things develop. We know they're going to try to get it to...
DRAYTON FLORENCE You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's ...
DRAYTON FLORENCE The good teams finish. Right now we're just not playing like a good team. We've got all the right pl...
DRAYTON FLORENCE We were hoping to have had something accomplished by now, or earlier, but we certainly have to respe...
DRAYTON MCLANE

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,
Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
MICHAEL DRAYTON

[Thomas Jefferson explained,] Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, ...
WILLIAM DRAYTON

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES

I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES

People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES

The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES

I'm a geek.
BILL GATES

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY

If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY

Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES

People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSON

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

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