Laurance Rockefeller famous quotes

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
-- Laurance Rockefeller

#People #Satisfaction #Materialism

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
-- Laurance Rockefeller

#Believe #Campaigns #Resources

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
-- Laurance Rockefeller

#Appreciation #Art #Understanding

In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.
-- Laurance Rockefeller

#Spiritual #Men #Needs

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.
-- Laurance Rockefeller

#Fathers Day #Responsibility #Opportunity

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.