Groups Quotes

• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, Thoughtful, People

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• Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Long, Identity, Enlightened

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You have to make every group you come in contact with better.

  Will Smith

  Contact

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• When I started doing these advocacy groups, it sort of propelled and compelled me to write songs, because otherwise I wasn't really sure what I was going to do, music-wise. I wasn't particularly motivated to write songs. But this level of humanity and spirit that I witnessed greatly impacted and so inspired me, so that I felt this sort of renewed vigor to write music. As far as how grounding it is, yeah, it's the ultimate amount of perspective.

  Thao Nguyen

  Wise, Song, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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  A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Trust, Teamwork

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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• We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Religious, Freedom

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

  Laozi

  Running, Ego, Wells

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• Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

  John A. Lejeune

  Leadership, Military, Character

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• Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Powerful, Ideas, Interest

  "The people always pay" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

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• If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Land, Rights

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

  Oscar Peterson

  Important, Sound, Corny

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Jan 24, 2012

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• There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational Sports

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• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Voice, Photographer

  W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

  Erin Gruwell

  Germany, Way, Action

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Average, Individuality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

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• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, Government, People

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• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Confusion, Together, Kind

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• As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

  Matthew Carter

  Beautiful, Design, Fonts

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• What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

  Maurice Strong

  Change, Country, Responsibility

  "Environmentalism: Ideology and Power". Book by Donald Gibson, 2002.

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Cities, Mosques

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  Edward Bernays

  Control Someone, Knowing, People

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

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