G Quotes
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“Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury.”
“Group shows are always much harder to present to the public because there's a theme to the show. They always do less well because a theme is a harder thing for people to grapple with than a monographic idea.”
“Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.”
“Group thinking does not give strength. It weakens the will. Majority thinking is oppressive because it inhibits individual growth and seeks a formula for all. Individual growth makes communal living of higher quality.”
Source: In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
“Group Thinking” or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“Groupies will give you Chlamydia, Edward.”
“Right, Virg. Groupies throw underwear on stage. They don’t throw flowers.”
Source: The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory (Divine Dantes Trilogy Book 2)
“Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.”
“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.”
“Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.”
“Groupon has some interesting assets.”
“Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.”
“Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.”
“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”
Source: Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution
“Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.”
“Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.”
“Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.”
“Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.”
Source: Die Wissenschafts Philosophie Thomas S. Kuhns: Rekonstruktion und Grundlagenprobleme
“Groups have powerful self-reinforcing mechanisms at work. These can lead to group polarization—a tendency for members of the group to end up in a more extreme position than they started in because they have heard the views repeated frequently.
At the extreme limit of group behavior is groupthink. This occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment.” The original work was conducted with reference to the Vietnam War and the Bay of Pigs fiasco. However, it rears its head again and again, whether it is in connection with the Challenger space shuttle disaster or the CIA intelligence failure over the WMD of Saddam Hussein.
Groupthink tends to have eight symptoms:
1 . An illusion of invulnerability. This creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. [...]
2. Collective rationalization. Members of the group discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions. [...]
3. Belief in inherent morality. Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions.
4. Stereotyped views of out-groups. Negative views of “enemy” make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary. Remember how those who wouldn't go along with the dot-com bubble were dismissed as simply not getting it.
5. Direct pressure on dissenters. Members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views.
6. Self-censorship. Doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed.
7. Illusion of unanimity. The majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous.
8. "Mind guards" are appointed. Members protect the group and the leader from information that is problematic or contradictory to the group's cohesiveness, view, and/or decisions. This is confirmatory bias writ large.”
Source: The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy
“Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.”
“Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.”
“Groups of children gathered around them and gave them flowers and placed colored ribbons at their feet. After they were blessed at the wedding, they had a merry celebration, but the false mother and false bride had to leave.
And the lips are still warm on the last person who told this tale.
-The Children Of The Two Kings”
Source: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
“Groups, teams and organisations are operating systems. Individuals don't exist as disconnected modules from others, from situations, from contexts... Build up perspective no only in yourself and your now, specially also to connections to others.”
Source: Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce
“Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.”
“Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.”
“Grouse moors exist or one purpose only: to maximise the numbers of a particular bird, the red grouse, for weathy men and women to shoot. Theirs is an entirely artificial, intensively managed environment. Moorland heather is extensively burned to encourage the fresh shoots eaten by young grouse. Many grouse moors were drained historically, because it was thought this would improve the otherwise damp conditions for both sheep and game birds. Gamekeepers lace the moors with traps to kill animals that predate on grouse: stoats, weasels, foxes and birds of prey. It's illegal to kill birds of prey, but that doesn't stop it happening: the unlawful persecution of raptors is endemic on Britain's grouse moors. And if you want to own a grouse moor, you have to be rich: even the Spectator says that owning one is 'screamingly' elitist and 'the ultimate trophy asset'.”
Source: The Lie of the Land
“Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.”
Source: The Retro Man
“Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.”
“Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.”
“Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.”
“Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“Grover blushed right down to his Adam’s apple. ‘Look, Percy, the truth is, I – I kind of have to protect you.’I stared at him. All year long, I’d gotten in fights keeping bullies away from him. I’d lost sleep worrying that he’d get beaten up next year without me. And here he was acting like he was the one who defended me”
Source: The lightning thief
“Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.”
“Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?”
Source: The lightning thief
“Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"
No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!”
Source: The lightning thief
“Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.”
“Grover pulled a blindfold out of his pocket and suggested Pin the Tail on the Human, which made me kind of nervous since I was the only human.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo
“Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“Grover--that snipping of the yarn. Does that mean somebody is going to die?"
He looked at me mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers I'd like best on my coffin.”
Source: El ladrón del rayo
“Grover told me he could dissolve the empathy link between us, now that we were face to face, but I told him I'd just as soon keep it if that was okay with him. He put down his reed pipes and stared at me.
'But, if I get in trouble again, you'll be in danger, Percy! You could die!'
'If you get in trouble again, I want to know about it. And I'll come help you again, G-man. I wouldn't have it any other way.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Grover Underwood of the satyrs!" Dionysus called.
Grover came forward nervously.
"Oh, stop chewing your shirt," Dionysus chided. "Honestly, I'm not going to blast you. For your bravery and sacrifice, blah, blah, blah, and since we have an unfortunate vacancy, the gods have seen fit to name you a member of the Council of Cloven Elders."
Grover collapsed on the spot.
"Oh, wonderful," Dionysus sighed, as several naiads came forward to help Grover. "Well, when he wakes up, someone tell him that he will no longer be an outcast, and that all satyrs, naiads, and other spirits of nature will henceforth treat him as a lord of the Wild, with all rights, privileges, and honors, blah, blah, blah. Now please, drag him off before he wakes up and starts groveling."
"FOOOOOD," Grover moaned, as the nature spirits carried him away.
I figured he'd be okay. He would wake up as a lord of the Wild with a bunch of beautiful naiads taking care of him. Life could be worse.”
Source: The Last Olympian
“Grover Underwood tenía una (conexión por empatía) con Percy Jackson, que, según él, explicaba por qué a veces tenía unos antojos inexplicables de tortitas de arándanos.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“Grover was almost as good as Piper McLean at procuring luxury vehicles.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me.”
“Grow a backbone. Stand up. Sharpen your claws. Retaliate against the monsters. Slay the dragons. Stand up for Morgue and yourself.”
Source: Take Them to the Morgue
“Grow a business by implementing these simple steps to increase profitability, scale up a business, and manage growth”
“Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.”
“Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.”
Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)