Dan Pallotta Quotes

#1. You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Dan Pallotta

#2. Liam recoiled as if I'd hoofed him in the danglies.

Jocelyn Adams

#3. People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Dan Pallotta

#4. Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

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#5. In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.

Patricia Highsmith

#6. When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.

Jens Lekman

#7. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Dan Pallotta

#8. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

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#9. Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

Dan Pallotta

#10. Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Heather Bixler

#11. A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

Lee Rich

#13. Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

Herman Melville

#14. I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

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#15. It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Dan Pallotta

#16. The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

Alberto Villoldo

#17. Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

Dan Pallotta

#18. Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

William Shakespeare

#19. I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

Kenny Chesney

#20. Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

Ben Harper

#21. History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

#22. Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

Dan Pallotta

#23. The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

Jim Bouton

#24. Jack had been my best friend since we'd been in diapers,

Liliana Hart

#25. When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Dan Pallotta

#26. And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

Dan Pallotta

#27. You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

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#28. Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

Dan Pallotta

#29. While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius

#30. It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

Dan Pallotta