"People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create."

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Source : William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press

William H. Whyte

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Together Quotes

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.”
“Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.”
“What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.”
“It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over the backs of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... If Russell Wilson wins back-to-back Super Bowls, there is no doubt it puts him amongst the top.”
“I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.”
“In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporationâ€™s funeral at our expense.”
“There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.40
“Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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