Collectives Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image “How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collectives Issues Social Social issues Talent
I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work! — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire and persistence. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
If talent exists, and it's very young, it needs to be nurtured and given a pathway to walk along before you ask it to… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
“Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability” — Sir Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective… — Peter London Copy Share Image