Hierarchy Quotes - Page 11

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  Gary Hamel

  Community, Adding Value, Influence

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• If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Live Life, Needs, Passionate

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• The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

  Robert Bly

  Kings, Confused, Catholic

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• The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

  Joseph Story

  Real, Government, Giving

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• Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

  Robert Bly

  Wine, Divine Feminine, Attention

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• There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

  Robert Bly

  Buddhist

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• I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

  Terry Deary

  Hate, Hero, People

  "Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories". Interview with Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

  Robert Bly

  Catholic, Church, Attention

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

  Sandra Bartky

  Body, Language, Speak

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Incompetence

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Empathy, Violence

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• I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

  James Caan

  Nice, Choices, Boss

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• The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

  Michael Marmot

  Higher

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• There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Song, Thinking, Suffering

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• Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

  Alex Kapranos

  Alternatives, Mainstream, Type

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  James Cameron

  Blue, People, Hollywood

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.

  Susan Fiske

  Editors, Peers, Paper

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

  Gary Hamel

  Roles, Process, Heavy

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• There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

  Tommy Chong

  Prison

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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, True Friend

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• I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Catholic, New Testament, Testament

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• Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Religious, People, Needs

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• Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Dream, Lying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

  Florence King

  Boys, Names, Males

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• People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

  Frank Schatzing

  Real, People, Diversity

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