Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Chris Alexander

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

Dee Hock

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Dee Hock

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Dee Hock

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Benjamin Spock

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.

Charlie Crist

Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.

Chesley Sullenberger

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

John McFarland

We started playing on Marty's kid's stuff. God, it was an awful noise!

Stephen Friedman

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

Mayor Madison

We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do.

Helen George

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

Louis C. K.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

Hugh Fountain

We were awful in the second quarter. We didn't start that bad. We'd execute for a few plays, but we couldn't keep things going. We challenged them at halftime.

Mark McGrath

We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs.

Charles Buck

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Brene Brown

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Paulo Freire

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Frederick Wiseman

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Ian Wilmut

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.