Organization Quotes - Page 22

• We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand," he said, "I get undue credit.

  Julian Assange

  Hands, Criticism, Lightning

  "WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange dismisses reports of internal strife" by Atika Shubert, www.cnn.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.

  Michelle Rhee

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Proportion, Importance, Dues

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Of course it is better to emphasize the unity of human beings rather than to emphasize the diversity of forms, that is to say, the man and the woman separately. If you have separate organizations for men and women you will tend to set them apart from each other, which is what often happens at present and is absurd!

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Diversity, Unity

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

  Michael Yates

  Issues, Race, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."

  Michael Ignatieff

  Party, Commitment, Brain

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, People, Want

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• This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Depth, Replacements

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.

  Colin Powell

  Purpose, Headquarters

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Roles, Break

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, People, Done

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Links, Levels

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

  Colin Powell

  Standards, Good Organization

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

  Colin Powell

  Energy, Want, Mediocre

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context of his situation and the reason for his actions, for which only he is responsible for. I think it was very difficult for him to try to bring down the very criminal organization that he had created and by the time he wanted to stop, he was unable to.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Trying, Pablo Escobar

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Myth

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Now we have to think, not in terms of what is good for an individual or a segment of the population or an organization or a sect of Christianity or Islam or Judaism, we have to think today of what is in the best interest of the whole of our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Thinking, People, Islam

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Monday, Sacrifice, Weekend

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.

  Barbara Crampton

  Mother, Men, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Population, Excess

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Media, Important

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Interview". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbclearn.com. December 17, 2010.

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• That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Enormous Quantities, People

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

  Julian Assange

  Rights, Effort, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Work, Doe

  'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) ch. 13

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