Top 30 Dan Pallotta Quotes
#1. The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
Alberto Villoldo
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are
Dan Pallotta
#6. 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
#7. When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.
Dan Pallotta
#8. Jack had been my best friend since we'd been in diapers,
Liliana Hart
#9. The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
Jim Bouton
#10. Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
Dan Pallotta
#11. History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
Dan Pallotta
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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.
Dan Pallotta
#19. Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.
Herman Melville
#20. Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.
Lee Rich
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
Dan Pallotta
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand
Dan Pallotta
#29. People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
Dan Pallotta
#30. Liam recoiled as if I'd hoofed him in the danglies.
Jocelyn Adams
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