Group Members Quotes

#1. Brainstorming had four rules: 1. Don't judge or criticize ideas. 2. Be freewheeling. The wilder the idea, the better. 3. Go for quantity. The more ideas you have, the better. 4. Build on the ideas of fellow group members.

Susan Cain

#2. I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

Frans De Waal

#3. rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members.

Joshua Greene

#4. The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group
enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group
members until they prove otherwise to be distrustful, and to distrust
out-group members until they prove otherwise to be trustful.

Michael Shermer

#5. The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

Ken Blanchard

#6. Until you actually join this government you say that you defend and join it on the same basis as any other citizen then I have every intention of regarding you as I would any other lobbyist for any other interest group demanding special privileges for its members.

Fyor Rodan

Walter Jon Williams

#7. Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Peter Singer

#8. Punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.

Gloria Steinem

#9. One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

Ben E. King

#10. Members of a cohesive group feel warmth and comfort in the group and a sense of belongingness; they value the group and feel in turn that they are valued, accepted, and supported by other members.

Irvin D. Yalom

#11. For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don't take themselves seriously, someone else will.

Gloria Steinem

#12. All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

Jean Nidetch

#13. Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

#14. Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

Robby Krieger

#15. Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Russell M. Nelson

#16. Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

Colin Powell

#17. We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Tony Abbott

#18. No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?

Richelle Mead

#19. Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

Pitirim Sorokin

#20. Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Desmond Morris

#21. Bianca, one of the quieter members of the group, shocked us all by butting in. That's just not true.

R.K. Lilley

#22. no empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group.

Margaret Atwood

#23. Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

Patrick Lencioni

#24. well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.

Parker J. Palmer

#25. Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. Teammates are vulnerable with one another; they are confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.

Patrick Lencioni

#26. First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

Carolyn Hax

#27. Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

Peter Julian Eymard

#28. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#29. Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

Robert Fripp

#30. 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

#31. Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

Henry Bonilla

#32. Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

Geert Hofstede

#33. We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Alain De Botton

#34. How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group."

Joel Henry Hildebrand

#35. the proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person's judgment. This procedure makes better use of the knowledge available to members of the group than the common practice of open discussion.

Daniel Kahneman

#36. [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

#37. We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

Margaret Mead

#38. Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

John Dewey

#39. A special pathway to citizenship is off the table ... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

Raul Labrador

#40. Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

Carter F. Smith

#41. The research shows that groups of friends who allow members to disagree and still be friends are more likely to come to better decisions. So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you.

David McRaney

#42. Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

Wendy Kopp

#43. Segregated schools. Children are educated, again often from a very early age, with members of a religious in-group and seperately from children whose families adhere to other religions.

Richard Dawkins

#44. Social psychologists confirm that we are likely to perceive people outside our own community as more alike than those within it. We perceive members of our own group as individuals, but see other groups as more or less homogenous (psychologists call this the "outgroup homogeneity bias").

David Livingstone Smith

#45. I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Richard Harris

#46. My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

Ziggy Marley

#47. No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another.

Jenny Nordberg

#48. An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people.11 On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.*

Richard H. Thaler

#49. Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.

James Martin

#50. I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?'
Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy name, but I could tell his curiosity was piqued.
'The Secular Church of Kurt Vonnegut,' I said.
'Jesus F Christ,' said Mr Peterson.

Gavin Extence

#51. Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Peter Brimelow

#52. Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

Peter McWilliams

#53. No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

Michael Eric Dyson

#54. A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

H. Ned Seelye

#55. One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths.

Sam Harris

#56. Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

Philip Zimbardo

#57. Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

Abraham Lincoln

#58. Social scientists have observed that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype.

Sheryl Sandberg

#59. The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions ... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.

Dennis Prager

#60. I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

John Irving

#61. They met each morning with a group of the followers for a time of thanksgiving and supplication, a practice maintained by members of their group throughout Jerusalem.

Janette Oke

#62. And as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group.

Paul Watzlawick

#63. It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#64. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.

Thomas Gordon

#65. If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group or class, we shall injure or destroy all groups, including the members of the very class for whose benefit we have been trying to run it. We must run the economy for everybody

Henry Hazlitt

#66. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

Laura Mullen

#67. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

Dave Barry

#68. Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ...

Clay Shirky

#69. You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

Ken Livingstone

#70. Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation

Phillip Gary Smith

#71. In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

R. Keith Sawyer

#72. One of these Technocrats had hacked into a laptop at a Bilderberg Group conference and listened into a conversation between a Rothschild and a Rockefeller. This conversation was about the different ways they planned to use surgical mutilation on their own loyal members.

Kerth Barker

#73. If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

Walter E. Williams

#74. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#75. The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

Carter F. Smith

#76. 2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#77. The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Rensis Likert

#78. No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

Kim Jong Il

#79. The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

Peter Senge

#80. There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Eric Hoffer

#81. A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

Patrick Lencioni

#82. I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her.

Ellen Malcolm

#83. A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

Henry A. Kissinger

#84. Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Carol Tavris

#85. Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.

Gloria Feldt

#86. A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Carroll Quigley

#87. The fact is, most people come to faith through the influence of family members, small-group Bible studies, or a conversation with a friend after a church service: Christians intentionally talking about the gospel.

J. Mack Stiles

#88. Big Bang is the group I want to be with till I die. I want us to be five members. Forever.

Seungri

#89. Another property of a group is that one may combine its members in varying sequence, yet the outcome of the combination remains the same.

Paul Watzlawick

#90. No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

Aldo Leopold