The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It’s a terrifically satisfying thing.
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn’t going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Most of the people leaking movies or giving out movies are because they love the movies.
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.
I always tried to be a guy that plays hard and was committed to giving his all, on and off the court. So that’s something I’m really proud of.
A father figure is providing for you, as well as showing you things. A big brother is giving you the game and showing you things too – but a father figure is providing for you while he’s showing you things, and raising you.
And I don’t think I’m giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in ‘Giving 2.0’ – that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
I’m very wary about giving advice. I think it’s very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn’t have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.
It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn’t feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
We’re helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We’ve done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.
Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.
For it is in giving that we receive.
Art points to things. It’s a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
The only real failure is giving up.
Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.
I would not run for president. I really like what I’m doing now. People say I’m giving them energy and hope.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Designis a revelation to me. It’s like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don’t really plan. I’m so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I’m kind of a crazy person.
Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you’re giving yourself a chance.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
I don’t believe in giving advice.
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don’t believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don’t.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning – going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
Giving back to your community – we’ve done that forever, that’s nothing new.
Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it’s all about trying to incorporate. It’s about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it’s about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
‘I Won’ is not a love song. It’s just me uplifting women in general. I’m giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy – to show that and know it in yourself and be confident – because when they do that, whoever they’re with is winning.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
I really don’t have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.
