Ideas Worth Doing - THE ARISE INITIATIVE

THE ARISE INITIATIVE

We build and bridge Foundations, Communities, and Movements

for Inter-Generational Global Citizens and Possibilists

to build Better Selves and a World and Future for us all.

Enabling + Amplifying

Voices

Visibility

Values

Velocity

What we live

and how we do everything:

Human energy

Purpose beyond oneself

Power of inter-generational love

Wisdom for all ages from all ages

Possibilities of purposeful communities

Our journeys are as important as our destinations

Be like water, be like fire, be like wind

Learn by doing

Carpe diem

'Everyday SHEroes and HEroes Everywhere'

Global Festival and InsideOut Community Art Project in 2024

TEDx ARISE 2025

Nominate compelling TED speakers and talents

'Wisdom for All Ages from All Ages'

now under development and will launch in early 2025

Wisdoms, insights, and actions that inspire everything we do

HEART

There are many paths to enlightenment.

Be sure to take the one with a heart.

Lao Tzu

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Chinese proverb

When eating fruit,

think of the person who planted the tree

Vietnamese proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Ask yourself constantly: ‘What is the right thing to do?’

Confucius

A great person is one

who has not lost the heart of a child.

Lao Tzu

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Ghandi

Life is so short, we must move very slowly.

Thai saying

You may be disappointed if you fail,

but doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Stills

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

HAND

Great souls have will,

feeble ones have wishes.

Chinese proverb

They always say time changes things,

But you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Do not wait for leaders.

Do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

All difficult things

have their origin in that which is easy,

and great things in that which is small.

Lao Tzu

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important

than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta,

founder of Buddhism, c500 B.C.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Thomas Alva Edison

No wind, no waves.

Chinese proverb

Lack of money is no obstacle.

Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

We must become the change

we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Ghandi

A journey of a thousand miles

must begin with a single step.

Chinese proverb

You must act as if

it is impossible to fail.

Ashanti proverb

New ideas pass through three periods:

1. It can’t be done.

2. It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing.

3. I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke

First they ignore you,

then they laugh at you,

then they fight you,

then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

The person who says it cannot be done

should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese proverb

HEAD

If you can dream it,

you can do it.

Walt Disney

There is nothing more powerful

than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

All that we are

is the result of what we have thought.

Buddha

The beginning of wisdom

is to call things by their right names.

Chinese proverb

Change your thoughts

and you change your world.

Norman Pool

Live out your imagination,

not your history

George S. Patton

Think left and think right

and think low and think high.

Oh, the things you can think up if only you try.

Dr. Seuss

The best way to predict the future

is to invent it.

Alan Kay

If you’re not failing every now and again,

it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Woody Allen

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Do something.

If it doesn’t work, do something else.

No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

A person with a new idea is a crank

until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

There is a better way, find it.

Thomas Edison

It is the mark of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it.

Aristotle

An inventor is simply a fellow

who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

Charles Kettering

Imagination is more important

than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The most successful people are those

who are good at Plan B.

James Yorke

Great ideas often receive

violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea,

when it is the only idea we have.

Henri Fourier

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