“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.” PeopleWayInspirationalDonePlayRealityFilmStarsGroupsFrontsBuddhismOfficeInfiniteDenyAthleticSmall GroupsObliviousFilm Stars Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsWayKindLittlesTwoStoriesFormTurnsThreeNextGroupsSubjectsPleaseOfficeMeetingsScriptsStudiosBoardsDepartmentFascinatingCartoonWaltGagsNorth PoleBulletin Board Author:Walter Lantz
“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.” PeopleMightMotivationalWalksEmotionGroupsOfficeDiseaseSpreadMoodFasterPanicSkepticismNegotiationVirusesContagiousBad Mood Author:Seth Godin
“Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.” IdeasPoliticalGroupsOfficeAddictionPolitical Groups Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.” MayProcessPracticeGroupsStyleDesignOfficeStrongerDemocraticEmploymentAtmosphereFirmTypicalParticipationWorkplaceEmphasisScandinaviaDesign Process Author:Martin Filler
“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.” PeopleShouldWholeWisdomPoliticsTermInterestEconomyGroupsMembersOfficeServantBoardsLiberalismRepresentativesReservesCommitteesShort TermFederal ReservePublic InterestPublic ServantsInterest Groups Author:Wright Patman
“There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.” MenWayWellsGovernmentRunningYoungDifferencesSupportGrowingGroupsFiguresPoliticianOfficeSkinsPreparedMaking A DifferenceThickBrutalYoung WomenMaximsInfluentialEleanorRunning For OfficeRhinocerosSupport Groups Author:Hillary Clinton
“Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.” PeopleWayStatesRunningChristianLeftCausesChurchReligiousGroupsOfficeThreatInspiredDecadesSeparationChurch And StateExtremistSeparation Of Church And StatePublic OfficeExtremist Groups Author:Ronald H. Nash
“Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.” ShouldMaySaidPoliticalCausesGroupsOfficeFocusedOppressionRadicalLiberationTranquilityHostilitySiblingWrecksRivalryHorizontalSibling RivalryDomesticityDuelingPolitical Groups Author:Florynce Kennedy
“Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.” WholeMy OwnRoomsPartyGroupsLuckyOfficeSeriesStartingMinistersOfficialsPrimeFormalPrime MinisterCabinets Author:Tony Abbott
“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.” IfsWorldMeanGovernmentPoliticalOrderDemocracyGroupsRevolutionPoliticianDespairOfficeNewspapersManageBurningRevolutionaryRealisingNew WorldCynicismThreatenedRepresentingNew World OrderWorld OrderRealisationBroadcastingDisenchantment Author:Tony Benn
“When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.” PeopleIfsStatesHandsCausesPresidentInterestUnitedCommonUnited StatesGroupsPromiseOfficeHighestFortunateOathOath Of Office Author:Mitt Romney
“If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingYearsDoeIdeasCountryPoliticalBeliefViewsKnowingGroupsEconomicSafeOfficePerformancesCompetitionPopulationImmenseMediocreHeedLegislatorsPolitical BeliefsSeniority Book:Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s