Quotes About Group

By harnessing the collective intelligence in the room, we can make decisions that are much smarter than those made by individuals.

5º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR EN GRUPO POCAS VECES

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

So many have the same premise: once upon a time, there were three. Three of something: three pigs, three bears, three brothers, three soldiers, three billy goats. Three princesses.

Ethnos needs Logos, especially if it aspires, as every ethnic group does, to become a nation.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

So why go to church? Why worship with a group? Because, in some way we may not fully understand, the Spirit indwells the group in a way the Spirit does not indwell the individual. We are all built together to become one, whole building: a single dwelling for his Spirit. Like it or not, we need each other. As Rodney Reeves noted, "I cannot worship God by myself.

Uma noite, pouco antes das dez horas, escapou-se para Trinity e aguardou no Grande Claustro que os portões se fechassem atrás dele. (...) Estava no meio de homens de Trinity - todos de imensa inteligência e cultura. O grupo de Maurice gozava com Trinity, mas não podiam ignorar o seu esplendor arrogante, ou negar a superioridade que mal se dá ao trabalho de se afirmar. ----------------------------------------------------- P.38, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

Panic is an ugly beast; in one person, it is a savage focus on the need of the "me" to escape, to survive. Ironically, when it infects a group en massé it becomes a collective noun nonetheless, while losing none of the savagery.

In our view, leadership is always a relationship, and truly successful leadership thrives in a group culture of high openness and high trust. Leadership and culture can be seen as two sides of the same coin, and culture is quintessentially a group phenomenon. Though this book focuses on a new model of leadership, it is equally a book about culture and group dynamics.

A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.

Owls have three eyelids. Their eyeballs are not spheres but elongated tubes. A group of owls is called a parliament.

So that was it: an unhealthy chef, a blind psychic, a war historian, a children's author, a French performance poet, Hawthorne and me. Not quite the magnificent seven, I couldn't help thinking.

UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there's another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

The thing I'm afraid of the most with the 800m is injuries. That's why I don't normally like to run in a group: I prefer to be in front, just in case someone pushes me with their spikes. I don't like stuff like that.

I put 'hope' in my name to be a hopeful existence in the group.

I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.

As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.