Committees Quotes

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. P. J. O'Rourke
Politics People Somebody Become Wildly Immediately Minute Idiots Brain Committee Committees Turn Suffer
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees. Stephen Hawking
Work Me Sit Research Say Boring Having Disability Allowed Concentrate Without Lecture Committees Helped
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Life Courage Vision Mind Matters Own Our Everything Moral Must Rarely Individual Ideas Himself His Intellectual Survive Begins Committees Room To Survive Confronting Produced Conscience Things
When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance of who we elect to our city councils, who sits on our local board of education committees, who we pick to represent us in Congress, in the Senate and more. Al Sharpton
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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. Alvar Aalto
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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. Andrzej Wajda
Better State Were Committees Established Deciding Separate Even Film Funding Two
If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review. Bill Shorten
Will Leader National Action Our Members Recommend Shadow Policy Am Opposition Review Contributions Committees Elected Team Actively Incorporate
A few states have taken redistricting out of the hands of partisans and put them in the hands of fair-minded committees. Every state should do the same. Bob Beckel
Redistricting Few Every State States Out Taken Put Hands Same Committees Them Should
I have served in the Senate since December 2012 with seats on the Appropriations and Commerce committees and previously served as the lieutenant governor and in the state House. These positions provided me insights on Hawaii's priorities and how to effectively work with stakeholders to achieve meaningful results. Brian Schatz
Work Me Achieve Positions State Lieutenant Insights Hawaii Results Since House Priorities How Provided Governor Effectively Commerce Senate Committees December Stakeholders Meaningful Served Seats
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. David Ogilvy
Today You Television Criticize See Never Allowed Advertisement Advertising Messy Committees Them Create Much Should Product
The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility. Ernest Walton
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. Fay Weldon
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Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' Gloria Steinem
Man Woman Black Before White Every Obama Ring Seemed Threw More Hillary Hillary Clinton Ready Clinton American Reporter Candidate Committees Which Barack Barack Obama Asking Even
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. Hans Frank
Legal Background Fading Idea Academy Also Advisory German Replace Gradually Committees Which Should Reich Reichstag
A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Will Differences Field Too Way Significant Area Fact Observation Study Between Real Exist Review Curious Authorities Same Committees Often Impulse Curriculum In Fact Fields Declare Uniform Each
I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers. John Carney
You Quality Made Controlling Think Films Members See Someone Studios Like Audience Audience Members Ultimately Lot Committees Producers Film
This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, 'Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,' and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt. Julian Castro
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Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally hard to see; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in front of Senate committees. Kate Crawford
Anxiety Those Hidden See Classified Delivered Generally Highly Documents Always Senate Front Committees Languages Hard Connected Twin Deeply
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. Kenneth G. Wilson
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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. Mark Shields
Build Think Meet Herself Know Himself Advocate Issues Effective Effort Any Going Committees Legislator Interested Them Acquainted Communicating Who Fully Bridge
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out. Matt Taibbi
Tough Down Watering Out Lawsuits Comment Committees Legislation Process Creating Turns Strangling Letters
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction. Mayim Bialik
Ego Single Every Rallying Dissertation Like Lot Committees Interaction Stake Actor Professors Position
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation. Michael Pollan
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And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. Milos Forman
You Control Everybody Everything Says Member Some Know Because How Person Committee Controlled Committees Placed Then
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. Mitch Daniels
Government Time Good Money Energy Hundreds Out Weeds Over Beyond Make Devour Advisory Real Years Contribution Any Committees Boards Far Choking Among Growth Good Government
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