Ben Rattray Quotes

#1. You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.

John Catsimatidis

#2. Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Ben Rattray

#3. The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

Cicely Tyson

#4. In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

Ben Rattray

#5. The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

#6. Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

Ben Rattray

#7. Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple.

Orna Ross

#9. Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

Erri De Luca

#10. Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking

Brian Andreas

#11. There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

Charlotte Dacre

#12. The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's problems and challenges.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#13. I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Ben Rattray

#14. My heart fluttered and my skin tingled anytime I was near him. How I viewed him had changed. He wasn't just Brenden's best friend anymore, not in my head. Not in my heart.

Catherine Gayle

#15. Nothing falls like London Rain Nothing heals me like you do

Heather Nova

#16. Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

Steven Moffat

#17. There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

Ben Rattray

#18. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Thomas Wolfe