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“If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.”

Ifs Should Use Wisdom Purpose Process Loses Decision Groups Team Advantage Organization Collectives Decision Making Small Groups Decision Making Process Advisory Collective Wisdom

Book:The Wisdom of Crowds

Source: The Wisdom of Crowds

“Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.”

People Knows Giving Real Community Church Groups Week Give Me Encouragement Accountability Small Groups

Author:Jeremy Lin

“Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.”

“If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.”

Ifs Challenges Common Groups Common Sense Elephants Unlikely Living Things Small Groups Credulity

Book:Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

Source: Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

“Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.”

Needs Individual Class Teacher Groups Teaching Students Particular Attending Small Groups Differentiation

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).”

People May Made Opportunity Christ Acting Wonder Lord Too Much Groups Stupid Concerned Meetings Comment Small Groups

Author:Edward T Welch

“A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.”

People Men Real Hands Liberty Groups Labor Property Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Dissent Real Men Small Groups

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.”

Ifs Needs Feels Speak Differences Support Groups Crazy Huge Strong Women Not Alone Small Groups

Author:Gloria Steinem

“What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”

People Two Facts Hands Politics Groups Politician Election Majority Active Candidates Minorities Selected Small Groups Citizenry Two Hands

Author:Robert Ringer

“When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.”

Firsts Form Jesus Groups Ministry Small Groups

Author:Rick Warren

“Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.”

World Individual Ability Groups Committed Changing The World Underestimate Small Groups Never Underestimate

Author:Margaret Mead

“Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.”

Persons Happens Speak Healing Groups Transformation Small Groups

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.”

Way Winning Groups Team Complaining Winner Loser Small Groups

Author:Bill Parcells

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.”

People World Change Groups Changing The World Thoughtful Small Groups Time For A Change Times Have Changed

Author:Margaret Mead

“I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.”

Ifs Believe Persons Reason I Believe Groups Honest Married Intimacy Preparation Intimate Participating Small Groups Few Friends

Book:Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture

Source: Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture

“Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.”

“A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.”

Grows Church Groups Worship Small Groups

Author:Rick Warren

“Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.”

People Way Feels Littles Film Term Environment Groups Subjects Independent Storytelling Someday Relaxed Small Groups

Author:Chris Wedge

“I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.”

People Believe Religion Fighting I Believe Groups Civilization Destroying Bent Small Groups

Author:Tom Tancredo

“A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.”

“A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.”

Together Community Groups Building Connections Entrepreneur Scales Working Together Small Groups

Author:Robert Reed

“A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups”

Years Doe Church Growing Groups Recalls Ministry Eleven Small Groups

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.”

Ifs Asks Numbers Groups Phones Crush Jealous Small Groups Phone Numbers Your Crush

Author:Mindy Kaling

“And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.”

Knows Fear Goal Numbers Groups Decided Threat Committed Worried Destructive Capability Terrified Small Groups Disruptive

Book:The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1

“From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.”

“The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.”

People Made Government Today Purpose Groups Citizens Approach American Citizens Small Groups Elitist Proclaiming

Book:Time for Truth

Source: Time for Truth

“Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.”

Source: Neuropolitique

“It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.”

Men Long Government Running Growth Creative Groups Planets Walking Please Civilization Moon Essentials Neighbor Wilderness Isolated Long Runs Star Gazing Small Groups

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.”

Has Beens Groups Possibility Materials Realms Small Groups Configuration Realm Of Possibility

Author:Bill Dixon

“I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.”

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Author:Bernardine Dohrn

“We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.”

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Author:Wilder Dwight Bancroft

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”

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Author:Sebastian Junger

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