Group Efforts Quotes

#1. Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Barbara Tober

#2. Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Willard Libby

#3. Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#4. Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#5. In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.

Thomas E. Mann

#6. It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

Mathew Baynton

#7. A good mixture of nothing and everything is eating up my head alive.

Anne Sexton

#8. It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

James Cameron

#9. By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.

Michael Hyatt

#10. Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

Janet Napolitano

#11. Unique is what one person does alone. What is not unique is what others have to collaborate on.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Sometimes an owl is just an owl.

Mark Frost

#13. The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Joel Miller

#14. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.

Marlene Caroselli

#15. Whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#17. I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

Tyra Banks

#18. Being out in the heat for two weeks can definitely drain your energy.

Cobi Jones

#19. Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

Richard Branson

#20. Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

#21. Time is like an egg and life is like a chicken that lays the egg.

Murray Schisgal

#22. The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Harper Lee

#23. The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.

Margaret Weis