Quotes About Group Achievement

#1. But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra - an orchestrion, an orchestrina - whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo -

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. Yet, it amazes me that anyone would give heed to a man who speaks such hatred.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#4. Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

Tupac Shakur

#5. Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. It will be hard for us and it will be an achievement just to get out of the group stages and through to the quarterfinals, but I am personally dreaming of reaching the final!

Andriy Shevchenko

#7. You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Elizabeth Emken

#8. If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement ... If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Edmund Hillary

#9. I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

#10. For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

Lou Gramm

#11. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

#12. Life is a successive symphony of losses.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?

Walter Sickert

#14. Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Jim Fergus

#15. The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

Noah Baumbach