Quotes of: Group-effort Keyword

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

David Cronenberg

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Kate Mulgrew

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

Lisa Bonet

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest gr...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you h...

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods and spirit than others are. He is thus bet...

The Best of the Group of Seven

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly...

Imagine: How Creativity Works

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of...

Race Matters

What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': "I just went to the mall and raped my VISA." "My dad phoned this morning and raped my b...

Slang & Sociability: In Group Language Among College Students

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded wi...

Philip K. Dick

The world is full of lots of people play acting and hurling stuff about, unconscious of the effects. And there are large group karmic things going on through history that none of us should ever take personally. Rushing about trying to rectify the sin...

Jay Woodman

There's almost always a church youth group at the soup kitchen. I have yet to see an atheists' youth group. Yeah, I know, religious people don't have a monopoly on doing good. I'm sure that there are many agnostics and atheists out there slinging mas...

A.J. Jacobs

Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was one of my most draining flaws and he again used three groups to clarify my thinking. There would always be some people, ...

Between the Lines: The Autobiography

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

The Devil's Web

Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.

Eternity's Reach

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

David LaChapelle

There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything

A Hand to Guide Me

Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly!

Shaping the dream

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

The Light Fantastic