“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.” PeopleSelfIndividualGroupsBuildingEmpathyToolsFunctionObsessedAllowingSelf Obsessed Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.” KnowsMenGivingValuesIndividualLeadershipLeaderKnow HowGroupsHe ManDrawsFunctionRegardManagementInitiativeRecognizingDefining Author:Mary Parker Follett
“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.” IfsKnowsWellsProblemArtistBeliefStrongKnow HowGroupsStylePaintingSkillsDrawsFunctionDrawingPainterAbstractMusclesGroundedSculptureAnatomyBiased Author:Guity Novin
“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.” ThinkingArtImportantRealityInterestChallengesPowerfulGroupsFunctionAcceptedInterest Groups Author:Salman Rushdie
“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.” IfsWorldTryingFirstsTwoProblemThreeCommunityDealsGenerationsGroupsModernNormalFunctionOrganizedFadesDiminishWorld ProblemsThree GenerationsNormal Family Author:Ralph Borsodi