Effective Altruism Quotes

#1. There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

Peter Singer

#2. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. Suffering is the finest teacher", said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

Abigail Thomas

#4. I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.

Philip Palmer

#5. The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it open.

Derek Thompson

#6. Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Dorothy Allison

#7. I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Lykke Li

#8. Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

Dalai Lama

#9. Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Bergen Evans

#10. I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

Neil Young

#11. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

Elliot W. Eisner

#12. The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema

#14. The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

David Almond

#15. - You're mine now; I hope you realize that, I said to her.
- I was yours from the moment you asked me what my name was, she smiled.

Sandi Lynn