Quotes About Group

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

phrases—a group of words that have no subject-verb combination and usually act as a modifier.

Sheep are in.

You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd.

Yet the British group did not have the legislative focus of the Germans. 'We do not think', they declared, 'the time has yet arrived in England for a similar demand to be made

If you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth.

Whether it is the forming of a group of friends or a pod at work—or hiring for diversity of viewpoint and tolerance for dissent when you are able to guide an enterprise's culture toward accuracy—we should guard against gravitating toward clones of ourselves. We should also recognize that it's really hard: the norm is toward homogeneity; we're all guilty of it; and we don't even notice that we're doing it.

Once we are in a group that regularly reinforces exploratory thought, the routine becomes reflexive, running on its own. Exploratory thought becomes a new habit of mind, the new routine, and one that is self-reinforced.

But, while a group can function to be better than the sum of the individuals, it doesn't automatically turn out that way. Being in a group can improve our decision quality by exploring alternatives and recognizing where our thinking might be biased, but a group can also exacerbate our tendency to confirm what we already believe

CUDOS stands for Communism (data belong to the group), Universalism (apply uniform standards to claims and evidence, regardless of where they came from), Disinterestedness (vigilance against potential conflicts that can influence the group's evaluation), and Organized Skepticism (discussion among the group to encourage engagement and dissent).

Diversity is the foundation of productive group decision-making, but we can't underestimate how hard it is to maintain. We all tend to gravitate toward people who are near clones of us. After all, it feels good to hear our ideas echoed back to us.

Accountability, like reinforcement of accuracy, also improves our decision-making and information processing when we are away from the group because we know in advance that we will have to answer to the group for our decisions.

Au groupe s'est jointe une jeune femme blonde, très grande, mince.

Film is a natural progression for Saban Capital Group with existing interests already in television, media and brands.

I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

Guys are awesome, but I vote for going to prom with a group of friends. It's so much less drama.

We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.

This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.

There's a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it's just sex. I've put most of them in jail.

The liminal is an exploration of the limits of the permissible, controlled and ritually sanctioned by the group. It therefore contains elements of transgression as well as a mechanism designed to reestablish the 'normal' order of things.

They are looking for convicts, and as often as not they are rewarded by seeing move across the heath before them a black group of men chained together and uniformly dressed, with a mounted and armed

They were a party of three on horseback

Wonders occur in groups that study the Bible together, because the Word has power to create a community of discovery that is much more than the mere sum of its individual parts.