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“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.”

Thinking Individual Groups Small Acts

Author:Chris Abani

“I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”

Thinking Should Individual Speak Social Term Class Groups Benefits Philosophical Hardship Comment Social Groups

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?”

Thinking Should Made Matter Bigs Today Left Issues Groups Media News Yesterday Statements Comment Mainstream Dictator Screws Idiotic Mainstream Media Chavez Venezuelans

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.”

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.”

Thinking Opinion Groups Proud Appreciate Humble Strife Disagreement

Author:Basilea Schlink

“Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.”

Thinking Way Years Running Today Comedy Focus Groups Years Ago Polls Focus Groups

Author:Bob Newhart

“Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.”

Thinking Way Different Together Used Animal Groups Dog Intelligent Different Ways Sophisticated Crow Lumps Highly Intelligent

Author:Alison Gopnik

“My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.”

Thinking Way Want Trying I Can Decision Groups Huge Yeah Blessed Want Me Faith In God Positively Think Positively Group Of Friends He Wants Me Amazing Family

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.”

Thinking World Trying Made Song Groups Band Concerned Definitions Heal Golden Jackets Leather Being Cool Your Favorite Heal The World Leather Jackets Favorite Bands

Author:Kanye West

“I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.”

Thinking Different War Feelings Groups Soldier Just One Different Feelings

Author:Emily Robison

“Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.”

People Thinking World Way Firsts Dies Individual Born My Own Behinds Existence Millions Groups Members Breaths Really True Live Simply My Own World

Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

“I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.”

Thinking Humans Children Art I Can Success Human Beings Groups Succeed Experts Peers Peer Group

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.”

Source: On call: political essays

“I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.”

Thinking Humans Certain Evil Human Beings Common Groups Materials Communication Chaos Censorship Trusted Pornography Common Good Selective Uncontrollable

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different War Use Problem Government Running Views Groups Goes On Conflict Taxes Method Invention Superiors Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

“I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.”

Thinking Kind Play Problem Running Easy Lines Talking Class One Thing Groups Team Defense Nfl Offensive Quarterback Super Bowl Seattle Receiver Great Running Running Back Offensive Line

Author:Bill Belichick

“I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.”

People Thinking Needs Made Bigs Causes Groups Resources Enormous Collections Suspicious Needles Nsa Probable Cause

Author:Rand Paul

“I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.”

People Thinking Groups Fields Slavery Pulling Cotton Plantations

Author:Alex Haley

“I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics. I really am a kind of small government person and I'm most certainly a fiscal conservative and strong on national defense.”

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

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Author:William J. Mitchell

“I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.”

“we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.”

Thinking Should Doe Leadership Leader Groups

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.”

“... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Should Use Used Groups Method Angry Threat Nervous Corporations Underestimate Never Underestimate

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.”

Thinking Knows Long Helping Groups Needed Safe Forgiving Abortion Long Ago Forgiven Nurturing Attending Needed Help

Author:Barbara

“Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?”

“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

“I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.”

Thinking Should Together Goal Forget Company Successful Groups Discipline Missions Divides Users User Experience Successful Company

Author:Donald A. Norman

“I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.”

People Thinking Different Happens Nice Groups Healthy My Friends Hollywood Different Things

Author:Topher Grace

“I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.”

Thinking World Believe I Believe Groups Danger Becoming Members Species Communicate Splits

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.”

Thinking Trying Years Firsts Important Different Bigs Would Be Lasts Given Fun Mistake Happened Groups Team Keys Messages Compare Last Year Terrific Big Mistake

Author:Tony Bennett

“Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Done Happens Guy Leader Groups Huge Conversation One On One

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.”

Thinking Hard Bigs Evil Easy Groups Metaphor Hard Times Zombie Evil Things Faceless Brainless

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.”

People Ifs Thinking Character Groups Believable Generalization

Author:Mark Haddon

“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.”

Thinking Art Important Reality Interest Challenges Powerful Groups Function Accepted Interest Groups

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Humans Looks Important Different Human Beings Accepting Class Rights Groups Awareness Draws Majority Superiors Oppression Our Future Parallels

Author:Janelle Monae

“In this era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the universe can contact you instantly. Think about how crazy that is compared to even a few decades ago.”

People Thinking Night Choices Universe Groups Crazy Decades Contact Eras

Author:Aziz Ansari

“For me, I always go back to when I was 10 years old and, I think between the time I was 10 and going to high school, were some of the greatest moments for me, because I had a group of friends that I was inseparable with, who we would make movies with all the time.”

Thinking Years Moments School Groups High School Inseparable Group Of Friends Going To High School

Author:Michael Giacchino

“I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.”

People Thinking Way Feels Care Voice Groups Industry Proud Treats Regard Commodity Be Proud Supportive

Author:Alicia Keys

“It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.”

Thinking Sometimes Turns Groups Grain Happy Endings

Author:Cher

“There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.”

Thinking Believe Important Ends Whole Christian Individual Christ Talking Groups

Author:Lewis Black

“It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.”

Thinking World Ideas Challenges Groups Development New Ideas World Bank Multilateralism

Author:Robert Zoellick

“Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.”

Thinking Ideas Play Character Happens Together Groups Strange Musician Manners No Idea Solitary Conductor

Author:Colum McCann

“People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.”

People Thinking Groups Organization Envy Faster Peers Get Over Competitors Thinking About You

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“John Kerry made a joke about Bush being a moron, and now Bush wants morons to think it was a joke was about the troops. ... Now, John Kerry has apologized. He said he made a botched joke and admitted that he has a joking problem. He has checked into an improv group and revealed that as a child, he was molested by a clown.”

Thinking Want Children Made Said Problem Groups Jokes Troops Clown Moron John Kerry

Author:Bill Maher

“I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.”

Thinking Sports Successful Groups Activity Being Successful

Author:John Wooden

“The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.”

Thinking Years Wells Whole Lasts Guy Accepting Vision Roles Sacrifice Groups Willing Keys Couple Seasons Pushing Willingness Championship Nba Championships

Author:Steve Kerr

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