Kent Creative

A boutique communications firm in Nashville working with nonprofits. Why don’t people do more to help their fellow man? That’s what we want to change.

[The National @ScotNational]

Today's front page of The National.

We published a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? | Science | AAAS https://t.co/PMu7Vqo8gl

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/uZTVbGnH3d

[Peter Singer @PeterSinger]

In this week’s episode of "Lives Well Lived," novelist Joyce Carol Oates challenges the emphasis placed on personality and the focus on celebrity culture. It is, she says, the work that is important, not the person who creates it. Despite her own remarkable achievements, she does not see herself as living well.

This episode marks the final of the first season of the podcast. You can find this episode, and all the first season episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

Listen on Apple: https://t.co/n67Gdihjom
Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/1ZEamaG1qP

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

@chazfirestone I like your attitude.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Ta-Nehisi Coates is not concerned about the script sales, invitations from the White House, or his relationships with colleagues at The Atlantic and elsewhere. “I’m not worried,” he told @RyuSpeath. He felt an obligation to write about what he saw. https://t.co/ie8KnZquYh

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

"If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't.”

- Jimmy Carter

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

“For me, to be human is, for the most part, to hate what I am. When I suddenly realize that I am one of them, I want to scream in horror.”—Robert Crumb

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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After the death of his first child, Dostoevsky wrote:

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[The Arithmetic of Compassion @AofCompassion]

#HurricaneHelene highlights the growing climate risks, yet psychological barriers often hold us back from proper preparation. Also, lack of empathy can distance us from the victims’ plight 🔗 https://t.co/qugS28CPjs

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

One way the Nazis overcame disgust at their atrocities was by pitying themselves for having to witness or carry out such terrible orders, rather than sympathizing with the victims. #HannahArendt #BanalityOfEvil #EichmannInJerusalem

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

"If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket." --Charles Bukowski

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

"'That’s not a cancer cell." — When a world-renowned researcher shut down a marketing rep with one dry sentence. #HealthcareIndustry #marketing #science
https://t.co/4n3LynYxQf

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

"I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." https://t.co/lDspWrpfJH

[Kent Creative @kentcreative]

“To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.” --Thomas Merton