Quotes About Collective

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective.

This is the genius of Don Quixote, a helpless fool who is mad as hell at the world, capturing our collective experience of modern mechanical civilization.

There's a growing recognition that the great advances of the future will come not from a single man or woman, but from the concentrated effort of a group. The operating principle today is, "None of us are as smart as all of us." Yet to activate the creativity of a group—whether it's a team, a company, a community, or a nation—we'll need to bring our best selves to the party.

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures. Roland Stahler Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world Into reality.

It took organized labor and the collective action of workers to make full-time employment in the semi-automated world of industrial manufacturing inhabitable. Unfortunately, the valorization and validation of full-time employment also made it easier for corporate interests to position piecework and, later, other forms of temporary or contract labor as expendable, that is, work that did not warrant protections.

We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.

It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.

the whole planet is having a kind of collective breakdown, then unhealthy behaviour fits right in. When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different. Or daring to be the you that exists beyond all the physical clutter and mind debris of modern existence.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

We have never been at war with ourselves. We never place the desires of the individual over the requirements of the collective.

Newton dragging me forward until we reached a large stretch of grass. This is what dogs liked to do, I discovered. They liked tout, I had to admit, it worked for them, and for Newton in particular. It was a collective illusion they had chosen to swallow and they were submitting to it wholeheartedly, without any nostalgia for their former wolf selves.

The hall fell silent. I had never heard a silence like it. The whole hall seemed to be holding its breath. It felt civilized and modern. It felt refined and tantalizing all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Omnes mundum facimus.

It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.

He sensed that this thought was not actually common to them, but rather that they would be in common only in this thought.

In each epoch memory reconstructs an image of the past that is in accord with the predominant thoughts of the society.