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“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?”

Ifs May Artist Answers Impossible Groups Achievement Importance Following

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

Men Feels Earth Goal Christianity Groups Victory Morality Achievement Ultimate Blessed Slave Triumph Impulse Captains Accused Competence Supremacy Meek Sagacity

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.”

People Real Whole Felt Groups Achievement Spokes Woody Archetype Chaplin

Author:Noah Baumbach

“If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Looks Bigs Chance Records Groups Achieve Achievement Very Good Candidates Big Things Small Things Good Chance

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in”

Wells Artist Powerful Environment Groups Worst Achievement Projects Foundation Secure Artistic Awards Bullying Ironic Tactics Endowment Lobbying

Author:Jon Rubin

“The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.”

Children Has Beens Ideas Parent Greater Groups Development Achievement Aspiration Passive Peers Parental Peer Group

Author:Steven Pinker

“Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.”

Doe Problem Would Be Humanity Growth Interesting Progress Groups Rocks Achievement Difficulty Personal Growth Streams Concrete Curves

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.”

Giving Motivational Player Groups Willing Basketball Giving Up Achievement Accomplishment Basketball Player Famous Basketball Inspirational Basketball Nba Player Great Basketball Basketball Training Awesome Basketball Personal Achievement

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.”

Inspirational Science Certain Effort Groups Degrees Achievement Working Together Teamwork Cooperation Cooperation Teamwork Group Effort Cooperation And Collaboration Collective Effort

Author:Willard Libby

“I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the Heavenly Man, is the goal for the human being, so for him, also, there may be a goal, and for him the achievement may be the development of God consciousness.”

Men Humans May Self Form Goal Human Beings Consciousness Groups Development Achievement Heavenly Self Consciousness

Book:The Consciousness of the Atom

Source: The Consciousness of the Atom

“Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.”

Men Wells Persons Whole Loss Views Sun Groups Honor Fame Equal Achievement Gains Scientist Point Of View Expenses One Man Shade Unfair

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.”

“In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.”

May War Ends Deals Leader Roles Groups Terrible Achievement Determination Circles Uncertainty Reports Fulfilled Exploring Cabinets

Book:Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Source: Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship