Organization Quotes - Page 16

• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Long, Democracy

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Community, Isms, Movement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when I was told I had a type of Chronic Dry Eye. Restasis has really worked for me and made my life easier. They're also partnering with Guide Dogs for the Blind, it's a beautiful thing where they're donating a dollar for every quiz taken on Restasis.com. It provides the blind and visually impaired with dogs, and it doesn't have government funding so what Allergan is doing really makes a difference. I'm so happy to be supporting that very inspiring organization.

  Marisa Tomei

  Beautiful, Dog, Taken

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

  Bill Mollison

  Home, Mud, Enough

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The reality is, cellphones have to be used safely. They are today like cars and trucks - we can't live without them, but we certainly wouldn't give a car or truck to a toddler to drive. Why are we thinking it's perfectly okay to give a device that the World Health Organization has said is a "possible human carcinogen" to infants and toddlers, and for that matter, schoolchildren?

  Devra Davis

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.salon.com

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• That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Real, Leader, Danger

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• There's no doubt now that Russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in America, and I am deeply concerned about this.

  Hillary Clinton

  Russia, Cyber Attacks, America

  "Presidential debate: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's first clash - full transcript". www.independent.co.uk. September 27, 2016.

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• If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Leader, Clear

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I love order and organization.

  Kate Spade

  Order

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We should not let this be like the history of the mafia which was allowed to grow into a nationwide organization which infiltrated and corrupted so many areas of society for such a long period of time.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Mafia, Should

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowledge resources, infrastructure resources - in an effort to create value. These are processes that you can map, with results that you can measure.

  John Kao

  Ideas, Effort, Maps

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.

  John Kao

  Ideas, Effort, Way

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Skills, Eras

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.

  John Kao

  Running, Agreement, People

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.

  Marty Nemko

  Teamwork, Moving, Decision

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• [Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result.

  Jonathon Keats

  New York, Military, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.

  Zachary Quinto

  Perspective, Office, People

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they're quite frank, they didn't care much about Afghanistan. But they pay attention more after reading these novels, and at times it has triggered this humaitarian spirt: some have donated money or at time times, people have joined humatiarian organizations that work in Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reading, People, Attention

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• I don't think you ever replace David Ortiz with what he brings to an organization or to a community.

  Dave Dombrowski

  Thinking, Community

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you cannot provide incentives for the openings of accounts, but I think it gets to be a deeper issue of the value structure of any organization and the value of its leaders.

  John Kasich

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what I had to say, so he asked me if I'd be willing to be in this documentary he was doing about carbon pollution. I said, "Sure!" It was kind of a no-brainer.

  Van Jones

  White, Hair, Talking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

  Van Jones

  Color, Community, African American

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

  Van Jones

  Dream, Book, Son

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

  Charlie Brooker

  Religious, Grandparent, Quaker

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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