Local Awareness Quotes

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

The frog does not drink in the pond in which he lives.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

Stay with what's happening locally. It's really important.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

The franchisees are uniquely in touch at the local level. They see what's going on in their communities in a way we couldn't ever imagine.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.