Organization Quotes - Page 28

• Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that.

  Heather Graham

  Mean, Names, Catholic

  Heather Graham (2009). “Dust to Dust”, p.159, MIRA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Money, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Moving, Rights, Justice

  53 Copy quote

• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Engagement, Rewards

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Facts, Recognition

  4 Copy quote

• I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is, Ideas, Cards

  "The Single Girl's Guide To Winning At Life By Taylor Swift" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. February 14, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Don't Trust, Policy

  4 Copy quote

• Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. “Did you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. “Alexander!

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Sleep, Cat

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1661, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Eye, Men, Class

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Good Luck, Support

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.346, W. W. Norton & Company

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Loneliness, Writing, Doubt

  Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play”, p.4, Dramatic Publishing

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

  Paul Harding

  Jesus, Men, World

  8 Copy quote

• Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect . And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations our families and our communities.

  Shawn Achor

  Moving, Butterfly, Positivity

  28 Copy quote

• A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.

  Starhawk

  Spiritual, Teaching, Inspiration

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.46, Beacon Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Light, Half

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.48, Beacon Press

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

  Ally Carter

  Fear, People, Weakness

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.112, ReadHowYouWant.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.

  Ken Kaess

  Business, Self, Clients

  4 Copy quote

• The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Success, Business, Years

  17 Copy quote

• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Courage, Simplicity, Growth

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

  Hannah Arendt

  Equality, Born, Results

  23 Copy quote

• I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  "Letters of H. L. Mencken". Book edited by Guy J. Forgue, 1961.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, History, Bucks

  9 Copy quote

• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

  9 Copy quote

• Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.

  John Travolta

  Country, Childhood, Community

  8 Copy quote