Organization Quotes - Page 7

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

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

  Nolan Ryan

  Four, Feels, Fortunate

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• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Environmental, Boards, Earth

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• I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

  Jim Clyburn

  Community, Important, Growing

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• We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  House, Doing Me, Okay

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

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Empowering, Effort

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Aunt, Leader, Middle East

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• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Lying, Appreciate

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  Jan Schakowsky

  June, Proud, Ongoing

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

  Theodor Adorno

  Insane, Destruction, Bigs

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, Player, Careers

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

  E. M. Forster

  Doe, Literature, Morality

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Energy

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reality, Decision, Action

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• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, People, Accomplishment

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

  James Bryant Conant

  Inspirational, Business, Ideas

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• We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

  Paul Cellucci

  Needs, Als, Defeat

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• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Order, Confusing, Trouble

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Recovery, Thinking, Keys

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• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Music, Dance

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.

  Michel de Certeau

  Religious, Believe, Practice

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Aggravation, People, League

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• In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

  Mary Hart

  News, Stories, Tabloids

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