“Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.” EyeIndividualGoalResultsEffectsNegativeUltimateSatisfactionObviousMythSelfishIdeologyAspirationNationalismFascismConsumerismSuperiorityIrrelevantOutlookMarxismMaterialisticLife GoalNazismOverconsumptionUltimate GoalPerniciousExaltation Author:Pope John Paul II
“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.” ThinkingKindTogetherIndividualStuffResultsHappenedStageBiggerWitnessCollectivesAlchemy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.” PeopleIfsWayTogetherIndividualResultsComedySeriousElementsHappeningsBasesFirmRealisticEmbarrassing Author:Christoph Waltz
“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.” KindIndividualChallengesLinesResultsQualitySituationTeamSkillsJudgmentPerformancesEducationalSpeedCombinationGet BetterCollectionsTeamworkMultipleResponsivenessIndividual Performance Author:John Katzenbach
“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.” PassionIndividualResultsSubjectsOughtFitJudgmentPrejudiceErrorsCongressVicesAbsurdFlightEnthusiasmFollyProductiveDefectsAssemblyLegislatureLiableFrailtyHastyPartialityControlling Power Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.” WholeSpiritualIndividualFreedomResultsRaceEvolutionSpiritual Experience Author:Andrew Cohen
“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.” IfsGivingChoicesIndividualPerfectResultsAudienceSubjectsListeningInvolvedPeriodsDramaTreatmentInstructionSympatheticFreedom Of ChoiceGreat Results Author:George P. Baker
“The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.” MenGivingWholeActionIndividualResultsRevolutionEvolutionCapabilityTechnological Author:John O. Brennan
“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).” IfsWayNeedsWould BeIndividualDifficultResultsCareersTeamAchieveBuildingDevelopmentEgoDirectRecognitionEtcAgendasDivisionHierarchyTeam BuildingAlignmentCareer DevelopmentOrganizationalConfidentiality Author:Patrick Lencioni
“Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.” IndividualSocialProcessResultsParticularActivityAvailableRangeTheoreticalExceedCognition Author:Ludwik Fleck
“When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.” LooksGovernmentActionIndividualDecisionResultsMaterialsAchievementCompetitionWestSuperiorsEnterpriseCompulsionAstonishingFree EnterpriseShaping The Future Author:Enoch Powell