Best groups & giving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.”

People Thinking Giving Made Stills Use Christian Culture Waiting Christianity Groups Modern Genius Messages Symbols Worldview Dilemma Disadvantages

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Feelings Body Might Social Stuff Relationship Groups Acceptance Projects Fingers Things To Do Norm Manly Social Norms Social Acceptance

Book:Trouble (poetry, contemporary)

Source: Trouble (poetry, contemporary)

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Use Would Be Deals Groups Dues Who I Am Indian Representing Demeaning Mascots

Author:Leonard Little

“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.”

“We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.”

Giving Purpose Groups Identity Belonging Constructs Worldview Belonging To A Group

Author:Carmen Lawrence

“It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.”

“Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.”

Men Giving Years Different Seems Running Groups Fields Wall Baseball Appearance Covered Bricks Hood Robes Ivy Neckties Wrigley Field

Author:Hank Aaron

“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.”

Giving Philosophy Choices Gone Generations Groups Economic Conditions Bears Filled Salvation Chosen Brands Variety New Generation

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.”

People Ifs Way Giving Trying Humans Government Force Groups Special Human Nature Position Competition Favors Enterprise Farmers Representatives Small Business

Author:Milton Friedman

“Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.”

Giving Form Order Differences Groups Special Tradition Notion Endless Pursue Identical Reduction Discontinuity Dispersion

Book:Archaeology of Knowledge

Source: Archaeology of Knowledge

“We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.”

“One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.”

People Ifs Giving Would Be Wanted Order Differences Common Groups Land Giving Up Property Libertarian Socialism Libertarianism Tolerate Socialist Joining Large Groups

Author:David Boaz

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!”

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.”

“When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.”

People Want Giving Trying Comedy Focus Groups Tests Cards Screening Focus Groups

Author:Chris Rock

“I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.”

People Giving May Ends Winning Results Groups Diverse Beneficial Networking Cultivating End Results Win Win Give And Take

Book:Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales

Source: Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales

“Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.”

Way Giving Sometimes Feelings Care Form Talking Risk Groups Produce Birth Intellectual Excitement Heat Unexpected Fever Infection Small Groups

Author:Stephanie Mills

“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”

Men Giving Made Two Country Given Sex Effort Class Generations Groups Vote Fortune Command Secure Other Countries Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.”

“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.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.”

People Way Giving Action Given Social Process Simple Powerful Common Groups Share Birth Conversation Concern Significant Life Changing Social Change Initiate Process Of Change

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.”

People World Giving Shows Order Nice Groups Speech Clothes Died Hardest Instance Therapy Permission Hardest Thing Showing Off Eulogy Explicit Group Therapy

Author:Nancy Friday

“I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.”

People Giving Said Ideas Groups Rage Drag Homosexual Hideous Pious Nun Bad Ideas Bookshops Postcards Receipts

Author:John Waters

“Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.”

People Giving War Groups Morality Genocide Heroism Altruism Tribalism Sainthood

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.”

People Giving Should Facts Groups Months Incline Pickles

Author:Barney Frank

“My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.”

Want Giving Hands Interest Groups Special Good Friend American Politics Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups Walter Mondale

Author:Ernest Hollings

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.”

Giving Political Certain Social Roles Groups Fashion Following Clubs Impression Belonging Social Groups

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.”

Thinking Giving Kind Two Happens Wanted Chance Happened Groups Streets Huge Integrity Offers Pops Bunch Bros Warner Bros Cache

Author:Michael Stipe

“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.”

World Giving War States United Moral United States Groups Havens Conflict Standing Threat Response Criminals Terrorist Around The World Restraint Spy Total War

Author:Edward Snowden

“The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.”

Thinking Way Giving Success Girl Black Boys Groups Fame Giving Up Illusion Athlete Singers

Author:Kristin Hunter

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.”

Giving Art Important Individual Community Groups Reader Mass Importance Damn Works Of Art Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.”

Ifs Giving Humans May Ideas House Parent Groups Okay Raised Cooks

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.”

Knows Giving Children Persons Mother Strong Stuff Struggle Teacher Wonderful Groups Share Needed Adults Give Me Girlfriend Raising Children Complication Wonderful Person

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.”

Men Giving Persons Government Form Interest Democracy Groups Activity Men And Women Selfish Welfare Free Man Forms Of Government General Welfare Government And Society

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.”

Ifs Want Giving Real Play Bigs Able Asks Groups Musician Okay Give Me Guitar Ask Me Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Marion Cotillard

“It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to be part of the group, but this time he wants more from his friends. And without giving the story away, he finally gets something that he has been looking for when the mini sloths kidnap him and take him to their tribal area. He gets to be the Fire King and they worship him and there is an amazing scene with a "call and response" sequence in the style of Cab Callow [the legendary American jazz singer and band leader] between him and his audience.”

Want Giving Has Beens Stories Wanted Lasts Leader Audience Fire Groups Style Kings Scene Band Worship Areas Jazz Response Singers Hanging Out Sequence Buddy Sloth Legendary Cab

Author:John Leguizamo

“That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.”

Ifs Giving Children Hard America Next Opportunity Groups Lucky Experiments Height Shore Grandchildren Landing Arriving Ethnic Groups Squalor

Author:Jon Stewart

“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

People Giving Understanding Support Groups Influence Products Intellectual Give Me Prison Notebook Hegemony Influencing People

Author:Okky Madasari

“I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.”

People Knows Want Giving Trying Looks Young Girl Voice Situation Destiny Heard Groups Giving Up Look Up Know Me Not Giving Up Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:LeToya Luckett

“I would want to be in a larger group. Personally, it would give me a sense of security, that we aren't a force to be messed with. I'd stay in the center of the group, and stay in shape! I've just got to be able to outrun the rest of them!”

Want Giving Able Force Groups Security Shapes Give Me Outrun

Author:Christian Serratos

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Groups Come Up Good Ideas Mediocre Screws

Author:Edwin Catmull

“I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'”

Giving Sex Groups Yelling

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.”

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

“I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.”

Giving My Own Views Groups Shapes Bed Surprise Corners Elsewhere Preference Shrubs

Book:The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

Source: The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook

“It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want to write about this, and I really am interested in this," and for them to say, "Yes," and give you the money to make it.”

Want Giving Writing Ideas Able Groups Privilege Executives

Author:Ryan T. Murphy

“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.”

People Giving Trying Years Firsts Song Known Break Groups Special Kings Singing Singers Organized Just One Treatment Here And There Monotony Trios Special Treatment

Author:Nat King Cole

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