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“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”

People Needs Children Government Political Three Politics Groups Trust Politician Thieves Supervision Spending Other People's Money

Author:Dick Armey

“I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.”

Shows Seems Today Lasts Guy Passion Games Felt Interest Generations Groups Share My Generation

Author:Tim Henman

“We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.”

States Millions Groups Huge Amount Election Green Campaigns Brethren Tasmania

Author:Bob Brown

“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.”

People Thinking Men Sometimes Audience Seeing Groups Advantage Sight Addresses Shouting Great Writers Great Wisdom

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.”

“When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.”

Individual Groups Clubs Extremes Inferiors Susceptible

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.”

May Different Reality Remember Doubt Risk Groups Shapes Perception Rewards Perceive Internals Incentives Marketplace Risk And Reward

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.”

Ifs Knows Feels Problem Talking Issues Groups Comfortable

Author:Jermain Defoe

“We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.”

“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

People Humans Wells Whole Shows Groups Evolution Balance Behavior Training Patterns Evolve Builder Destroyers

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.”

Social Goal Community Religious Support Groups Organization Suicide Terrorist Command Liberation Occupation Broads Isolated Cult Recruit Terrorist Groups Religious Cults National Community

Author:Robert Pape

“I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.”

Art Jobs Support Teacher Groups Fields Paint Seven Profession Wilderness Geography Day Jobs Field Trip Geography Teachers

Author:Robert Bateman

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”

“Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.”

Has Beens Success Groups Overwhelming Congratulations

Author:David Letterman

“Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.”

“The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.”

Government Political Winning Groups Best Things Candidates

Author:Will Rogers

“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.”

People Thinking Knows Life Ideas Different Together Jobs Moving Talking Groups Aspect Arguing Good Ideas Different Peoples People Talking Different Jobs

Author:Steve Jobs

“The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.”

Ifs Way Kind Littles Two Stories Form Turns Three Next Groups Subjects Please Office Meetings Scripts Studios Boards Department Fascinating Cartoon Walt Gags North Pole Bulletin Board

Author:Walter Lantz

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”

Would Be School Deals Teacher Groups Teaching Students Disease Medicine Patient Currents Medical Primaries Broads Professors Pupils Professional Life Medical School Clinicians

Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.”

World Kind Dream Age Ability Groups Greatness Members Entertainment Appeals Believable

Author:Walt Disney

“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”

Mean Persons Business Groups Willing Authority Judgment Appeals Proven Competence

Author:Walt Disney

“There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.”

People Problem Alive Groups Signs Of Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.”

World Way Trying Light Individual Causes Walks Situation Groups Inspire Highest Harmony Inner Peace Better Ways

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”

Knows Age Loses Principles Focus Groups Willing Understood Conviction Historian Approval Popularity Contests Polls Posterity Deserving Adviser True Meaning John Kennedy Focus Groups

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.”

People Use Wanted Wonderful Groups Products Very Good

Author:Steve Jobs

“Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.”

Humans Play Today Nations Groups Tomorrow Survival Preparation Survival Of The Fittest

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.”

Knows Way Heart Real Seems Behinds Groups Design Emotional Development Intellect Drawing Appeals Real Things Motion Pictures

Author:Walt Disney

“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.”

Way Mind Firsts Problem Jobs Lasts Nations Goal Education Support Groups Prove Findings Summer First Time Dollars Educational Divides Instruction Outstanding Last Summer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.”

Firsts Children Helping School Jobs Nations Numbers Education Groups Decided Burden Income Serving Lowest School System

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.”

Humans Process Human Beings Learning Groups Organization Patterns

Author:Tom Johnson

“The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.”

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.”

Character Together Names Quality Moral Virtue Groups Development Balance Battle Perfection Intellect Active Passive Assemblage Great Battle Battle Of Life

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.”

Christian Church Known Groups Teaching Duty Conscious Decided Consideration Peter Commonwealth Christian Marriage

Author:Princess Margaret

“Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.”

Way Two Self Deals Teacher Groups Students Type Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Esoteric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations”

Men Feels Spiritual Next Women Groups Son Praying Capable Enlightenment Eastern Advise Be A Man Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.”

“Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.”

People Might Motivational Walks Emotion Groups Office Disease Spread Mood Faster Panic Skepticism Negotiation Viruses Contagious Bad Mood

Author:Seth Godin

“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.”

“Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.”

Two Form Three Women Groups Triangles Groups Of Three

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.”

Leader Groups Moon Jokes Humorous Wings Notes Careful Divided Spells Ballet Swans Poultry Astounded

Author:Woody Allen

“Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.”

Way Years Made Said Millions Fire Groups Minutes Keys Needed Beats Humorous Sitting Discovery Years Ago Stones Rate Woods Hey Heat Lightning Dinosaurs Sitting Around Cavemen Insurance Rate

Author:Dave Barry

“He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.”

Men Study Groups Students Men And Women Introduction Small Groups

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.”

People Kind Art Two Different Practice Groups Thousand Kicks Martial Arts Mma One Time Minimum

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.”

“Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.”

People Different Sometimes Jobs Artist Process Levels Groups Determination Musical Studios Insecure Psychiatrist Therapists Scrutiny Dynamics Different Levels Misgivings Flipping Out

Author:Todd Rundgren

“I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.”

People Thinking Said Stills Kids Together Fun Groups Horror Scared Unusual Going Out

Author:Jason Blum

“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”

Strong Groups Identity African American Bad Things Group Identity

Author:J. C. Watts

“The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.”

Thinking Way Feels Levels Groups Changed Jazz Our Time New Orleans Influential Meter Groove Funk

Author:John Scofield