Units Quotes - Page 10

• You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up with a top-notch fighting unit.

  Charles Alvin Beckwith

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.

  William H. McRaven

  Military, Authority, Aspect

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• I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the head of it. There are so few pictures of him. We don't even really know what he looks like. For somebody with this outsized influence projecting murder abroad, you'd think that we would know a lot more by now. And then the role of the hostages.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Thinking, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.

  Elliott Sober

  Thinking, Race, Leaving

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

  Taylor Momsen

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Soldier, Risk

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

  Nick Nolte

  Mexican, Culture, Forget

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Children, Years, Turkeys

  Source: www.serialoptimist.com

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• To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.

  Keith Ellison

  Party, Cities, Levels

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

  Keith Ellison

  Party, Focus, Energy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

  FKA twigs

  Self, Want, Wells

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.

  Reggie Watts

  Piano, Different, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.

  Peter Buffett

  Kids, Home, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, Imagination, Fans

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.

  Chris McCaughan

  Thinking, Play, Long

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• Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

  Arthur Compton

  Family, Years, Twenties

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• That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

  Thomas Hardy

  World, Earth, Cold

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• Everybody f-king does it. I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on...It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off...Perhaps it's not wise to put that in a magazine? But I ain't hiding anything.

  Robin Wright

  Wise, Kings, Moving

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• There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

  Mervyn King

  People, Adequate, Pay

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• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

  Bruce Beresford

  Growing Up, Men, White Man

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• Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

  Roger Smith

  Jobs, Business, Doe

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• The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Believe, Simple

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

  John Lindsay

  Mistake, Years, Trying

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Becoming, Narcissistic, Losing

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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