Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Christopher

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

Carl Guardino

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

James Levine

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

Wendy Kopp

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Mikhail Bakunin

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.

It's mostly women, working in their own homes. The fact that they're wanting to come together and have a collective voice is remarkable. It shows their determination and creativity.

Charles Elachi

That is what I am delighted about; the fact that they were having a hard time picking one mission and decided to give it to the collective work that we do at this institution.

George H. W. Bush

supported by the collective will of the world.

It was a collective team effort tonight, and our kids did the little things right to win this one.

Jon Gruden

It was a collective effort, ... The offensive line, as we've said all along, is a work in progress. So far we're showing improvement.

It was a collective effort. No one was being selfish and everyone contributed in some way.

Eddie Jordan

It was a collective effort, and we're just riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Everyone has responded from three games ago, and we're just riding the wave right now.

They cut it to nine, she banged that shot in the corner, and it was the exhalation. It was a collective sigh and then we picked up.

They are going to have fewer people to represent in their collective bargaining, and that's going to have some effect on their negotiating ability.

Jim Lee

It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

Geoff Mulgan

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Jeff Kinney

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

This ministry runs on a collective use of talent - everyone gives where they can.

There was definitely a time I wasn't 100 percent sure that Collective Soul would be out with another record. Deep down, I felt like we were going to continue on. I felt like we still had things to offer.

There's a lot of disappointment. It was a collective thing. Shoot, the personnel department might have been the worst part of it.

It is our view and the collective view of all the advisors that we surrounded ourselves with that this speaks of more financial engineering,

It really dilutes the efforts of collective bargaining.

This is a vote of confidence in the power of collective bargaining. It was an exercise in persistence.

There's been a huge shock to the collective consciousness. I hope people will be ready on the 24th to sample new shows. But they may not be.

There's been a huge shock to the collective consciousness,

Tadashi Yanai

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Stephen Covey

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Without them putting their demands in writing, we'll just be confused.

Dennis Miller

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

Bruce Babbitt

As deeply as gold or the grizzly bear, wild salmon infuse California's past, ... But through our collective will, today we help ensure that salmon swim on into our future. For they are not merely commodities, or emblems for a flag. Wild salmon are vital members of creation who enrich our landscapes, inspiring us through their upstream journey from sea to Sierra.