Organization Quotes

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.