Groups Quotes

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

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.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

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

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs.

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.