Clay Shirky
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you and that you... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III GINA GREENLEE ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA ARSENE WENGER AVINA CELESTE GERMANY KENT GERMANY KENT We play a little bit of a different style than most teams. If we can get things together at the end,... HARRY PERRETTA Every little bit extra I can get, it definitely helps. ANA RODRIGUEZ My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and ... JON ALTERMAN ENOCK MAREGESI The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (al... MICHAEL MCCLURE LAILAH GIFTY AKITA CRAIG GROESCHEL Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can ... RICHARD ATTIAS JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER When there is problem in life & threatens to budge you from the desired destination, there is still ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA MARIO TESTINO If you value your time, You'll get some reasons to smile in return. MD. NAZRUL ISLAM DEYTH BANGER The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO PETER CAPALDI Think not of what you can do, but of what you cannot! JALAL ERRAZI RICHARD L. EVANS DESMOND TUTU I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing. ALLAN DARE PEARCE It makes the other team more aware of what we have offensively. That, in turn, takes a little bit of... NICK GARCIA The chance to do it over again is called now. J.R. RIM CHRISTINA ENGELA For the most part, a little extra tutoring here or there is all you can do. BOB SLOWIK DESMOND TUTU DESMOND TUTU JEANETTE CORON ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE No, there is no guarantee, but there is somewhere between that and just throwing up your hands and t... KATE GRABOWSKI LAILAH GIFTY AKITA LAILAH GIFTY AKITA TIGER WOODS The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Do your part. This is what counts SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH SOURCE UNKNOWN THERESA MAY We'll start with those of you that are interested. We can start talking about what we can do, things... GREG HUDNALL When something must be done, someone has to do it SOTONYE ANGA NAPOLEON HILL STEPHEN RICHARDS TRENT REZNOR If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel g... ESTHER HICKS ALEX STEFFEN JOSTEIN GAARDER JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective. ADRIAN GRENIER One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more wo... MARK VALLEY JEFFREY FRY HUGH ROSS ABHISHEK KUMAR To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Whether you're beginning with the foundation or you're finishing off the second story...the purposef... JOHN WAIRE Where can you make small changes? Just do something a little bit different every day to move you clo... JOHN DI LEMME And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to Go... MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON BARRY COMMONER Sooner or later, what you do will speak SOTONYE ANGA ROBERT COLLIER ROBERT COLLIER Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it b... O'SHEA JACKSON, JR. Joe is the description of what they're looking for. When you're putting a team together you're looki... MIKE WOODSON No one denies that it is a problem. It's a problem we can and must deal with now, rather than years ... BUD SELIG Everybody is out of the closet except Christians. Satan has set up no trespassing signs and the prob... ALFONZO SURRETT We can all play together here with no problem, but it is just a matter of time before there is anoth... JOSH REED There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. GALEN ROWELL Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER BARBARA JORDAN GERMANY KENT GERMANY KENT The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS HELEN KELLER HELEN KELLER
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The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i... CLAY SHIRKY You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to hav... CLAY SHIRKY Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not th... CLAY SHIRKY There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ... CLAY SHIRKY Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that... CLAY SHIRKY Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. CLAY SHIRKY You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers... CLAY SHIRKY Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. CLAY SHIRKY Operationally, the transactions were fairly trivial. CLAY SHIRKY Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to impro... CLAY SHIRKY Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a n... CLAY SHIRKY Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with p... CLAY SHIRKY [F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement mus... CLAY SHIRKY Collaboration is not an absolute good. CLAY SHIRKY Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definit... CLAY SHIRKY [R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participat... CLAY SHIRKY A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain f... CLAY SHIRKY Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group id... CLAY SHIRKY The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to... CLAY SHIRKY Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, th... CLAY SHIRKY Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production r... CLAY SHIRKY [C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the p... CLAY SHIRKY Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. CLAY SHIRKY Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. CLAY SHIRKY We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open techni... CLAY SHIRKY Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost. CLAY SHIRKY Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. CLAY SHIRKY [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace ... CLAY SHIRKY One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... CLAY SHIRKY The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'g... CLAY SHIRKY [F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people,... CLAY SHIRKY Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. CLAY SHIRKY [B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain... CLAY SHIRKY The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epocha... CLAY SHIRKY HENRY CLAY With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each ... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor. CLAY GUIDA If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp... CLAY AIKEN HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global ... CLAY AIKEN rock 'n' roll of comedy. ANDREW CLAY We celebrated holidays together, ... He came over to my house all the time. ANDREW CLAY My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and... ANDREW CLAY Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching... ANDREW CLAY There was a coolness about him, ... He used to wear these sunglasses and these shirts that had pictu... ANDREW CLAY I don't drink to get happy or to forget the pain. I drink to stop the voices in my head. Do you know... ANDREW CLAY If you are a company of the size where you can bang a drum and get politicians interested over here ... ANDREW CLAY I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ... CLAY AIKEN As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving compa... CLAY CLARK Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. BRYAN CLAY Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do. BRYAN CLAY I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you. BRYAN CLAY I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ...... BRYAN CLAY I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ...... BRYAN CLAY [Sebrle, 30, visited Clay, 25, in California this spring for training and golf.] Roman's a good golf... BRYAN CLAY [Clay handled the weather - chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy - as well as the competition.] This w... BRYAN CLAY I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here. BRYAN CLAY I am just happy to still be in the medals to be going home with another silver medal. BRYAN CLAY Even though I'm what people call a 'world-class athlete,' I have to do all the same things doctors a... BRYAN CLAY [Clay handled the weather  chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy Ã... BRYAN CLAY I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these... BRYAN CLAY On any given day one of us could have won. I'm just glad it went my way. Roman was there every step ... BRYAN CLAY Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more t... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after yea... CLAY CLARK The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined... CLAY AIKEN I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! CLAY AIKEN I embrace the Nerd. CLAY AIKEN I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myse... CLAY AIKEN It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. CLAY AIKEN I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w... CLAY AIKEN It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, b... CLAY AIKEN The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. CLAY AIKEN It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ... CLAY AIKEN I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. CLAY AIKEN HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY If the Hornets go back to New Orleans, I expect we'll get a franchise. There haven't been any promis... CLAY BENNETT It's tough to beat somebody three times. Give Owyhee credit, they played hard and hit their shots. CLAY FITCH HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of wor... CLAY CLARK Over the life cycle of that airplane, we're absolutely confident we're going to get 50% or more. CLAY MCCONNELL [As for Bartlett's game (he's a 12.3 and cited by several sources as the best golfer in the White Ho... CLAY JOHNSON In this case, the concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved. There were no national se... CLAY LOWERY He showed a lot of poise out there. He has as much ability as anyone we've got. We've got a deep sta... CLAY MCCAMMON I thought the kids did a great job of showing poise. Snyder is a great team, they got us down early ... CLAY MARTIN Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting... CLAY CLARK I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy w... CLAY AIKEN He's a legend. He deserves respect. CLAY OGDEN It's like sitting in a submarine, CLAY WALKER I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show. CLAY AIKEN I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. CLAY AIKEN Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you ... CLAY AIKEN I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ... CLAY AIKEN Whether this ride lasts for one year or 10 years, I want to have a home base. CLAY AIKEN I spent years and years in middle school getting picked on, so I'm kind of used it, CLAY AIKEN Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n... CLAY AIKEN I have a feeling they are probably mostly ladies, CLAY AIKEN Reach Out (I'll Be There). CLAY AIKEN It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. CLAY AIKEN You don't have to be around people you are related to be with family. CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don’t hate cats, I’m just kind of afraid of them. CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them. CLAY AIKEN It appears they [the Joint Chiefs] interpret cartoons as accurately as they do prewar intelligence. CLAY BENNETT Stupidity is evil waiting to happen CLAY BOND Certainly Republicans are talking about the impact — pro or con — that Reed would have on the go... CHUCK CLAY In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and t... CLAY CLARK Every coach is biased about his own kid, but I wouldn't trade Kevin for anybody. He accepted not mak... CLAY NORTON (The extra headroom) gives us easy access to clean the dust, grain particles and fines from undernea... CLAY MITCHELL People need to know that the cattle and the pastures and the citrus groves they see do not sustain t... CLAY JORDAN Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. Hist... CHUCK CLAY They mapped the Arctic Ocean with this thing. CLAY CONDIT Customers appreciate the savings and it gives friends and family a chance to dine out together witho... CLAY DOVER I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of cha... CLAY AIKEN Everybody has a full deck of cards, but nobody wants to show their cards at the same time. CLAY BARTLETT Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you ha... CLAY CLARK I'm just glad I didn't have to put him on the trailer and send him away. He had a good spirit about ... CLAY STEPHENS The reason we think this can work from a non-proliferation standpoint is that we are seeking to prov... CLAY SELL I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping... CLAY AIKEN I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage. CLAY WALKER We've been feeling this for several years now. BETSYE CLAY It was Daytona's finest house. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. CLAY HARPSTER They spared no expense when it came to building this place. CLAY HARPSTER I knew that house in and out. I use to go there with my folks and spend time with (the King family). CLAY HARPSTER The Zippers seem to embody a lot of different notions of who they are. The CD-ROM captures that. CLAY WALKER We left some room to keep adding names. We thought about that a lot. It was meant to be something th... CLAY GISH I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 25 percent of New Jersey voters said they are supporting Kean ... CLAY RICHARDS The bottom line is that even when things are equal in New Jersey, the Democrats win. CLAY RICHARDS Our proposal seeks to provide stability, clarity and predictability in moving the Yucca Mountain Pro... CLAY SELL I've been a starter all my life until now, ... so I'd love the opportunity to finally pitch in the r... CLAY HENSLEY Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democrat... CLAY RICHARDS Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to... CLAY JOHNSON And we had teams of scientists up on the surface, and it would ram its way up through (the ice). 17 ... CLAY CONDIT This is the sixth derivative of the 747. It's a plane that can be offered out there at a relatively ... CLAY MCCONNELL I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or m... CLAY AIKEN He's just never gassed out. Matt just wants to grind you down in that mat. He just keeps grinding at... CLAY CLIFFORD That was quite an experience. Your legs felt good, because it was kind of like an ice bath. But once... CLAY PETERSON HENRY CLAY Some of the guys actually slept in the clubhouse. CLAY HARRIS When Josh gave you something, it wasn't a string attached. It was never a hidden meaning. It was alw... CLAY BRASWELL All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too. CLAY AIKEN Basic fairness means the displaced people in Florida should be handled the same as those in Louisian... CLAY SHAW I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up. RUDY CLAY The elevated floor allows easier servicing of the drying machinery, regardless of whether grain is i... CLAY MITCHELL Our special teams were super. I mean we gave up a (long) kickoff return, which was not good. Before ... CLAY JORDAN HENRY CLAY My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. CLAY AIKEN Submarine in the desert. Yeah, an oxymoron if you ever had one. CLAY CONDIT When we're bored, we give each other piggy back rides. HALLEY CLAY There's good and bad things about having a bye. You don't have to play this week, but the bad thing ... CLAY MARTIN The variable that's having the most impact now is the weather. CLAY INGRAM You don't want to get rid of all your ants either. They're natural predators to termites. BRET CLAY HENRY CLAY It's an appropriate thing to recognize. I guess the words I would use [are] remembrance and reconcil... CHUCK CLAY Secretary Rice spoke to the Quartet principals this morning to discuss the situation in the Palestin... NOEL CLAY We do work together, and we are going to fight this tooth and toe-nail, CLAY SHAW Clearly there's thriving competition between wireless companies. Competition is fierce. CLAY OWEN It's a marvelously subtle attack. CLAY RICHARDS Sadly, it is not surprising that Americans' knowledge about the First Amendment is clearly lacking a... CLAY CALVERT Last time I visited the graveyard, some of us had trouble walking the quarter mile from the boat lan... CLAY CABLE The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or servi... CLAY CLARK He is a good kid and strong as a bull. He was somebody local to go with. He showed a lot of potentia... CLAY PERRY It's the roadmap. I could drive to Fort Lauderdale without a map, but it's easier if I have one. CLAY SHAW There's stars out there who would die to have this much exposure. CLAY AIKEN This is a marathon, not a sprint. CLAY MCCONNELL He worked as hard as any other pilot, and his stick and throttle are above most others. CLAY OGDEN They attacked our middle tonight, and they didn't exploit that last night. CLAY COCKETT We are very young with only one senior. I think we outwork people. I have the best kids and a great ... CHARLIE CLAY Both of us are hungry for a win. I think both teams will be hungry to get on the winning side. CLAY JORDAN We're always going to face great pitchers in this district so that's one reason we haven't been hitt... CLAY BERRY There's no doubt that these kids are hungry for a win. We really need a win for our confidence right... CLAY BERRY
Do the thing and you will have the power. 
If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... 
If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything? 
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. 
If you think you can do it, you can. 
It ain't bragging if you can do it. 
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. 
If you can dream it, you can do it. 
Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... 
Be all that you can be.
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. 
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. 
Lay the foundations for your future now. Try to do a little bit every day and let it slowly add up. ... 
6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... 
Ongea unachoweza kutenda. 
You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge. 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do wel... 
You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak... 
If you can do it, why you won't do it???
The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and... 
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. 
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overw... 
Aerodynamically there isn’t much you can do to enhance your Beetle’s handling. The Porsche style... 
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... 
Welcome to golf, ... I wish we could say we could putt well every day, but it doesn't happen. The on... 
It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consci... 
We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do it... 
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don'... 
If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action. 
Anything I can do to help out. I love this place, and if it helps a little bit, whether it be throug... 
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global pove... 
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement. 
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to b... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without approp... 
The problem with denying the problem is that it also denies the solution. 
You are the architect of your life. 
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ... 
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. 
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for throug... 
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through... 
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national... 
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. 
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much 
I would rather be right than President. 
Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; fro... 
I'd rather be right than President. 