“Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.” PeopleWayShouldWholeDiesProcessResponsibilityGroupsWeaponsNuclearDiscussionNegotiationTheologian Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.” WorldWayFeelsHas BeensActorsNumbersGroupsLuckyTinySmall Numbers Author:John C. Reilly
“It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping their way through their 20's doing other amazing things. And I've been in...I spent like 10 years working here without ever having been shooting in Toronto. And it's so frustrating because it's a great city. And I remember seeing Montreal actually used as Montreal in that Ed Norton-Robert DeNiro.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsMeanArtRememberYoungUsedCitiesWonderfulSeeingGroupsSceneShootingFrustratingAmazing ThingsGreat MusicTorontoGreat CitiesMontreal Author:Alison Pill
“I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.” PeopleWorldWayWantHumansMeanWarEndsStatesNamesCausesUnitedRolesUnited StatesRightsGroupsMetsUniversalHuman RightsCome UpAround The WorldWar Of The WorldsThinkerCrucialWorld War IiWorld War IDeclarationEleanorAssemblingDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.” WayGroupsDancingCommunicateAnother WayDolls Author:Nicole Scherzinger
“I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveLongDifferentChristianI BelieveChristWrittenGroupsCallingLong TimeDiedMetaphorFeel GoodDifferent Ways Author:Jane Fonda
“The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingLooksKindHardWholeTogetherMovingIndividualChristStepsCreativityGroupsInnovationAncientCoreInventionFuelMysticismMysticalBarbariansCreativity And Innovation Author:Erwin McManus
“When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.” WorldWayYearsFirstsFoundCasesStudyPsychologyGroupsTheoryProveEvidenceScientistSticksDataRelyGlobal WarmingHockeyPretendingScareConsistentlyApprovedExaminingAberrationPuzzlingHotterGraphsCase StudiesHockey Sticks Author:Christopher Booker
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought” WayDifferentRunningTurnsRecordsGroupsFormerManagersLabelsTherapyChipsArtemisRecord LabelsDistributorsGroup Therapy Author:Brian Ebejer
“It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingWellsLongHardPlayFactsGroupsInfluenceArmsBandLong TimeObviousOne WayAffectedUnitsDefiningCulmination Author:Chris McCaughan
“Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.” WayStoriesProblemStudyTakenGroupsSlaveContactIndianThinkerAmerican IndianWhitenessLead InFolktales Author:David Roediger
“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.” WayLongLawAbilityWhitePoorGroupsExampleCitizensLong TimeConcernedCatholicJewVariousTrialsImmigrantsHistorianTomsArrivalsPrecedentWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.” WayWantI CanPlayGroupsTrackRelyLaptops Author:Thighpaulsandra
“Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.” KnowsWayWantGovernmentJobsSpeakGrowthTechnologyGroupsCitizensCreaturesOilOur FamilyPoisonTolerateExtinctionFrackingNew Growth Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.” WayWantPersonsNaturalGroupsNovelistsMesh Author:Jane Smiley
“It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantDifferentTogetherSocialEasyGroupsIdentityPersonalityLessonsValuableVarietyShySenateIntrovertCampusNavigateObnoxiousHandyEasy WayLiving TogetherClimbersImportant LessonsExtrovertsGroup Of Friends Author:Claire McCaskill
“I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.” PeopleKnowsWayLooksEndsFeelingsHouseCommunitySecretGroupsJokesSpyEthnicity Author:Sherman Alexie
“I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document the existence of interventions that reduce it. It's really hard to find ways to change the way people see people in different groups. It should be our goal, and we're working for that, but it's hard.” PeopleWayShouldYearsDifferentHardGoalExistenceStudyGroupsEasierSexismDocumentsIntervention Author:Amy Cuddy
“Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.” PeopleWayArtGroupsArt IsMovedVacuums Author:Walton Goggins
“A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLooksKindPersonsImportantDifferentLife IsGroupsBandFeel GoodHow You FeelMake You Feel Good Author:Adam Duritz
“A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDoeWholeVoiceDecisionBreakGroupsListeningComfortableFindingsCaughtCrowdsThings To DoCaught UpHerdsInner VoiceCool ThingsWorld Life Author:Echo Bodine
“There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite a bit, and I was also pretty big into Josh Grider back then. I remember going to a lot of Kevin Fowler shows early, and Eli Young Band was another one of the groups I listened to a lot of when I was learning to write and play guitar.” WayWritingFirstsPersonsPlayShowsBigsRememberYoungBitsGroupsListeningBandGuitarJust OneRogerKevinJoshRandy Author:Curtis Grimes
“I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.” WayMadeRunningSoundRecordsGroupsAlbumsFuturistic Author:Kool Keith