"Invitation is not only a step in bringing……" — Peter Block
"Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist."
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30 Quotes by Peter Block
Peter Block has 30 quotes on this site.
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If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and…
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Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.
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Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.
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Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
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To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery…
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Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a…
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If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on…
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Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.
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I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs…
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Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
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Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the…
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Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right…
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More Barter Quotes
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear…
— James Otis
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I…
— Peter O'Toole
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When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
— Len Deighton
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements…
— Viktor Khristenko
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I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services…
— Mark McCormack
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A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money…
— Robert D. Putnam
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Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men…
— Karl Hess
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Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter…
— Jacqueline Susann
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