Groups Quotes - Page 49

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.

I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

How can there be self-help groups?

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

Hillary Clinton's weakest group, though, is people under 30, the young.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

"There's no CEO for the government." But if you were CEO for a day at the government, would you have tools and reports and wherewithal to look at government the way a business would look at its lines of business, its spending, its revenue? I've actually been working, first by myself and then with a group of people, on then on and off, and now much more on, almost since the I time left Microsoft.

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?

I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.

A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)

They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.