Collectives Quotes - Page 8

• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Waiting, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.79, Vintage

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• I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

  Janna Levin

  Mother, Clever, Believe

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• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  Chad Hugo

  America, Disrespect, Trying

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• Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Acceptance, Compassion, Understanding

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• Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Tradition, Behinds

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• Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Intellectual, Deep Thought

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• Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

  Charles McGrath

  Book, Reading, Culture

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• Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Jobs, Mistake

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• Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

  Walter Mosley

  Freedom, Rights, Ability

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace”

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• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Cheating, Learning, School

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• My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Past, Giving

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• Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Focus

  "Get Rid of Dysfunction". www.success.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Self, Political

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.258, Vintage

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• There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Distance, Collective Memory

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• Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Country, People

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• Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The Only Path to Tommorow". Readers Digest, pp. 88-90, January, 1944.

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• The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

  Peter Schwartz

  Ideas, Race, Diversity

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Future, Past

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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• The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

  Socrates

  Perfect, Together, Humans

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• These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brave, Unions, Inspired

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

  Aimee Mullins

  Self, Doubt, May

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• Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

  Desson Thomson

  Past, Sharks, Years

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• Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you have. Do not wait another day.
  Lay your hours and intellect, your heart and passion, upon the altar of self-transformation and collective awakening. Begin now: pray, believe, trust and act.

  Ann Mortifee

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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