What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
In economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.
God our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure and your people know that and are pessimistic therefore about trying something again is very high.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize without prejudice with the peoples of East Asia.
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
No matter what his position or experience in life there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.