Michael Emerson Quotes

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

People will resist change when it's done to them, not with them.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That's what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

Miss World is about coming together, taking the reigns and fighting for a cause.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

You have a responsibility when you have a large community.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.