Communities Quotes

“Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...”
― Josephin Peladan

“The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.”
― Luther E. Vann, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration of people who do not know one another, who have no common interest, save that of enriching themselves at the expense of one another.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“The time to clean our city of any dirt begins with individual action for collective clean communities.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Leadership is not just about building an individual legacy. It is about creating a legacy that will benefit communities and many countries.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“Clean communities, clean cities.
Clean cities, clean country.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“...if I do enough research before a conference, and build enough relationships online, I can walk into the conference and people will already know who I am and the company I work for. - Tracy Lee”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“you don't have to be an absolute expert to stand up there and share what you've learned. ...you're just sharing what you've learned. That doesn't mean you know it all. You have to remember that you're not the expert presenting to or lecturing students. - Jennifer Reif”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“The business that my role generates is not always something that you can connect with my talks directly. ... if I go and build the brand by getting my name and the company name out there, it may generate business in a year or two. - Ivar Grimstad”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“I wanted to take something, learn it, and teach it. I was sucked in by that. - Tim Berglund”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“I think the title doesn't define who we are: it's what we do that defines who we are.
Engineers can be great advocates for what they do and for the things that they've learned. Whether some people like to do that or not is a separate discussion. - Ray Tsang”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“The phrase in tech writing was "easy reading comes from hard writing." Easy consumption of an app comes from really hard work on the backend. - Tori Wieldt”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“You need to be a good storyteller. When you're at a conference, you should empathize with the developer and tell them a story that they can believe in; that's what makes a talk entertaining. That's the difference between an average developer advocate and a good developer advocate. - Arun Gupta”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“My public persona led to the company reaching out. That's the relationship that you have to build. - Arun Gupta”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“Sometimes I feel, after a while, that I'm okay at 10 different things, whereas some people are really great at more. You start getting used to feeling mediocre, at least I do. But still, I'd rather be focusing on many topics than be bored. - Josh Long”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“If I had known that I could be a programmer and a teacher at the same time, I think I would have aimed for this career much sooner because this is my sweet spot: being able to do something that's creative and logical like programming, but also focusing on the documentation, the teaching, and the speaking - Trisha Gee”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“I would say there are two major groups of people: those who create content and those who consume content - Yakov Fain”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“Your personal brand and trust relationships are what we're building here. Don't worry about creating DataStax branding; we have people for that. You need to be the brand with your voice. - Patrick McFadin”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“Yes, I'm just a developer, so I try to find the simplest possible solutions. ... If you go to a bakery, the bakery isn't playing with five million different tools just because the old flour became too boring after a while. - Adam Bien”
― Geertjan Wielenga, Developer, Advocate!

“Clean communities, cleaner cities.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Keep your communities clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Unlike most models of interpersonal networks, the one presented here is not meant primarily for application to small, face-to-face groups or to groups in confined institutional or organizational settings. Rather, it is meant for linkage of such small-scale levels with one another and with larger, more amorphous ones. This is why emphasis here has been placed more on weak ties than on strong. Weak ties are more likely to link members of different small groups than are strong ones, which tend to be concentrated within particular groups.
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The major implication intended by this paper is that the personal experience of individuals is closely bound up with larger-scale aspects of social structure, well beyond the purview or control of particular individuals.
Linkage of micro and macro levels is thus no luxury but of central importance to the development of sociological theory. Such linkage generates paradoxes: weak ties, often denounced as generative of alienation, are here seen as indispensable to individuals' opportunities and to their integration into communities; strong ties, breeding local cohesion, lead to overall fragmentation. Paradoxes are a welcome antidote to theories which explain everything all too neatly.”
― Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties

“Good women are the backbone of countries, counties, and communities. You can easily count on them.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Social media... is perfectly designed to help "consensual hallucinations" spread within connected communities at warp speed”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

“So, to leave that community for another one was terrifying, especially when the transition was being made into a community that seemed to be everything but safe. But the group of Christians I began to know and enjoy were ones that did more for me than the gay community could’ve ever done. They showed me God. The community I called home for a season of my life were all full of laughter and what I’d labeled “life.” But the reality was that my gay community was indeed lifeless. They were what I had been, dead. They were still image-bearers, still friends, they still mattered. I still loved them, but I loved God more. They could not help me love who they did not know themselves. The difference between the gay community and the Christian community was not skill, intellect, comfort, humor, or beauty; it was that in one and not the other, God dwelled.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

“You don't need to worry about picking a side when it comes to politics. Just be good to those around you, and be the neighbour you'd like to have living next door. The rest takes care of itself when we look after eachother regardless of differences.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“Dreams that cannot build communities are not powerful. Powerful dreams create long-lasting impact.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams

“Political historian Barouth Regorab had likened the difference between a planetary government and the Galactic Senate to that between a rural community and a metropolis: “When a person depends upon their neighbor for assistance during the harvest—when strangers are few and familial ties bind the farmer to the freighter captain—the greatest danger is shunning or exile. Mollifying your peers becomes a matter of survival. You have an incentive to iron out differences, or if necessary to bury any radical beliefs that would put you at odds with your community.
“In a city of millions, however, a person may build a tailor-made community inside the larger organism. Anger your neighbor and you may move in with a friend. Become an outcast among your co-workers and you may take a job with a competitor. Diverse arts and philosophies may flourish without the flattening effect of more tight-knit communities, and differences may be celebrated. Yet a lack of common ties can also cause neighbors to see one another as rivals. Ideological opponents can be dismissed without need for engagement. And good people may slip through the cracks, lost in the chaos and written off as someone else’s problem.”
― Alexander Freed

“Citizens hold a powerful tool: the ability to choose civility at the ballot box. That choice has ripple effects. When we elect leaders who practice self-control, respect & collaboration, we get stronger communities.”
― Diane Kalen-Sukra, Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“The kind of static and segmental thinking which regards problems and issues as separate and apart unto themselves logically trips itself into the pitfall of a second fundamental fallacy. It is inevitable that this type of mental isolation, which fails to observe the relationships between problems, would and does lack a pragmatic understanding of the functional relationship between a local community and the larger social scene. It reveals a complete lack of recognition of the obvious fact that the life of each neighborhood is to a major extent shaped by forces which far transcend the local scene.

It requires nothing more than plain common sense to realize that many of the problems in a local community which seemingly have their roots in the neighborhood in reality stem from sources far removed from the community. To a considerable extent these problems are the result of vast destructive forces which pervade the entire social scene. It is when these forces impinge upon the local community that they give rise to a definite community problem. It should, thus, always be remembered that many apparently local problems are in reality malignant microcosms of vast conflicts, pressures, stresses and strains of the entire social order.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals