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“Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.”

Self Speak Hurt Simple Groups Communication Rage Honestly Convince Aggression Indifferent Affirmation Hostile Assertion Psychotherapy Self Affirmation Deepest Thoughts

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“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

“A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.”

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.”

Trying Years Littles Has Beens Lasts Individual My Own Simple Attention Company Groups Industry Approach Investing Criteria Undervalued

Author:Benjamin Graham

“In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.”

Ends Purpose Speak Simple Groups New York Return Conversation Late Accomplished Too Late Dozen Invitations Illustration

Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.”

Ifs Way Use Simple White Five Pieces Groups Notes Seven Nine Piano Repeats Formulas Sections Minimalist

Author:Brian Eno

“Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.”

People Play Lying Games Bits Simple Party Groups Paper Sitting Seven Circles Equipment Werewolf Assassination Hysteria Accusation Guessing Large Groups Second Guessing

Author:Andrew Plotkin

“Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?”

“No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.”

“Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.”

Simple Responsibility Groups Pure Excellence Pursuit Assumption Pursuit Of Excellence

Author:Philip Selznick

“It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.”

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Book:Great gardens of Britain

Source: Great gardens of Britain

“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.”

“Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.”

Turns House Church Simple Moral Support Groups Theory Worship Messages Psychological Compromise Clutter Convoluted Support Groups Houses Of Worship

Book:So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

“It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.”

Ifs Should Stills Seems Simple Results Common Groups Claims Currents Fixed Acquire Zero Assets Counting

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.”

War Stories Stars Simple Groups Special Effects Terrorist Planning Robots Terrorist Attacks Special Effects Group Of Friends

Author:Dana Gould

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