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Quotes About Unit

I know my best team, but my best team has got 15 players in it.
~ Phil Brown
Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
~ Karan Johar
What a returning soldier needs most when leaving war is not a mental health professional but a living community to whom his experience matters. There is usually such a community close at hand: his or her surviving comrades. Men and women returning from combat should debrief as units, not as isolated individuals. Unit rotation [in my understanding, the lack of it] is the most important measure for secondary prevention of combat PTSD.
~ Jonathan Shay
As attorney general, I've launched a specialized unit to protect voting rights.
~ Andy Beshear
Disintegration of a combat unit…usually occurs at the 50% casualty point, and is marked by increasing numbers of individuals refusing to kill in combat…. Motivation and will to kill the enemy has evaporated along with their peers and comrades. —Peter Watson War on the Mind
~ Dave Grossman
Perhaps nowhere in life do the experiences of childhood seem more removed from the issues of adult health than in a hospital coronary care unit. Yet, one can see and hear there the linkages patients themselves make as they reveal bodies and hearts that are living repositories of pained memories from the distant past—pained memories etched in their hearts and never forgotten.
~ James J. Lynch
As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish-American War, appeared on horseback to serve as his escort of honor.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Yes, Unit. That's why we hired you for this series of shoots—you're a unit. You're good-looking but not too good-looking, and your face has the quality most essential for effective clip art: it's pretty much impossible to remember.
~ Douglas Coupland
He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.
~ Rachel Kushner
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.
~ Richard Dawkins
An organism is the physical unit associated with one single life cycle. Replicators that gang up in multicellular organisms achieve a regularly recycling life history, and complex adaptations to aid their preservation, as they progress through evolutionary time.
~ Richard Dawkins
One gene may be regarded as a unit that survives through a large number of successive individual bodies.
~ Richard Dawkins
The controversy about gene selection versus individual (or group) selection is a controversy about whether, when we talk about a unit of selection, we ought to mean a vehicle at all, or a replicator.
~ Richard Dawkins
The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.
~ Richard Dawkins
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
~ Jacques Lacan
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
~ Ludwig von Mises
wastepaper basket n. user-friendly, space-effective, flexible deskside sortation unit Government officials in Toronto, Canada, paid $123.80 [Canadian] each for "user friendly, space effective, flexible deskside sortation units," more commonly known as wastepaper baskets.
~ William D. Lutz
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
~ David Halberstam
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
~ David Halberstam
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
~ Neil MacGregor
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
~ Charles Eastman
I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.
~ George W. Bush
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.
~ Barrett Tillman
Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.
~ James Mattis