Units Quotes - Page 2

• In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

  Colin Powell

  Disappointment, Leader, Normal

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• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  Gary Neville

  Strong, Disappointment, Mistake

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• I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

  Guy Lafleur

  Guy, Together, Big Families

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• God loves all of His children. He has provided a plan for His children to enjoy the choicest blessings that He has to offer in eternity. Those choicest blessings are associated with marriage between a man and a woman by appropriate priesthood authority to bring together a family unit for creation and happiness in this life and in the life to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Thinking, White, Southern

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• I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

  John le Carre

  Fatherhood, Example, Able

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• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

  Alvar Aalto

  Cells, Encounters, Connections

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Home, Air, People

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it aims to satisfy in what group of people and with what value proposition that distinguishes the business from its competitors.

  Philip Kotler

  People, Needs, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fighting, Israel, People

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2003.

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• Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

  Stanislav Grof

  Culture, Earth, Return

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Growing Up, Couple

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• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  Philip Gibbs

  Fighting, Done, Prohibition

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  Adolf Galland

  Russia, France, Norway

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• I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ideas, Imagination, Fans

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Church, Fundamentals, Eternal Life

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Doctors, Perception

  Susanna Kaysen (2001). “The Camera My Mother Gave Me”, p.126, Vintage

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• The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

  Annie Besant

  Alive, Body, Totality

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.340, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

  Harper Lee

  Effort, Groups, Alabama

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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