Units Quotes - Page 23

• There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Team, Player

  546 Copy quote

• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Guy Debord

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  "Yes, too many of us are in pointless jobs - but don't despair" by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Military, Gun, Men

  20 Copy quote

• I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?

  Seth Gabel

  Team, Responsibility, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Effective therapies treat the whole body as a unit.

  Pete Egoscue

  Body, Treats, Therapy

  5 Copy quote

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  Carl David Anderson

  Numbers, Track, Majority

  Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Photography, Successful, Guy

  7 Copy quote

• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Thinking, Vision

  "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

  Bobby Sands

  Destiny, People, Leaving

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Brilliant

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible.  By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

  Ruth Wisse

  Home, Men, America

  8 Copy quote

• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Peace, War

  8 Copy quote

• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

  Eberhard Weber

  Thinking, People, Able

  15 Copy quote

• Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Sacrifice, Done, Pieces

  52 Copy quote

• Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Ukraine, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Expansion, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

  72 Copy quote

• An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

  Robert Pinsky

  Couple, Reading, Mean

  "The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Leadership, Strong, Team

  63 Copy quote

• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

  13 Copy quote

• Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

  Samuel Smiles

  Numbers, Form, Depraved

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.30

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

  Stanley Fish

  Doe, World, Language

  Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.7, Harper Collins

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance.

  Martyn

  Home, Ideas, Broken

  4 Copy quote

• The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

  Albert J. Nock

  Humans, Can Do, Human Beings

  6 Copy quote