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“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.”

“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

People Self Individual Energy Groups Identity Pride Ought Succeed Connections Performances Regard Appeals Clans Group Identity

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.”

Able Individual Groups Performances Prosperity Socialist Free Market Parity Groups And Individuals

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”

Has Beens States Light Government Loses Church Religious Groups Policy Capacity Tradition Performances Criticize Ethical Unjust Cozy

Author:Edd Doerr

“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.”

People Looks Two Whole Film Night Order Three Bits Hours Happened Groups Minutes Performances Theatre Every Night

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.”

People Looks School Ability Teach Groups Performances Seasons Grades Auditions Casting Zombie Georgia Recruit

Author:Gregory Nicotero

“Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.”

“Saturday mornings in spring should always start with a jolt of dance by Paul Taylor performed by Taylor 2. The touring ensemble, an adjunct of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, offered a rare New York performance... It was an impressive event, presented by a group of highly individualistic dancers.”

Should Company Morning Groups Events New York Spring Performances Dancer Saturday Impressive Touring Ensemble Individualistic Saturday Morning

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.”

Feels Trying Wells Art Body Groups Performances Aim Architecture Flesh Performance Art

Author:Spencer Tunick

“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.”

People Age House Common Class Groups Television Waste Eating Performances Distance Income Inward Uniforms Multitudes Conform Mold Freezer

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.”

People Ifs Writing Different Hard Would Be Artist Guy Laughing Groups College Genius Paper Performances Honestly Papers Jackasses Bards

Author:Louis C. K.

“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.”

Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s