64 Hierarchy Quotes for You to Enjoy

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence Every Hierarchy Rise Tends Employee His Level

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything. Elizabeth Thornton

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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. Friedrich Nietzsche

Future Obligation Problem Value Values Philosopher Hierarchy Solve Determine True Sciences Task Which Ground Prepare Now

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct. Michael Shnayerson

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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform. Eugene Kennedy

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What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. Gloria Steinem

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' Takashi Murakami

Art People Will Pretentious Hierarchy Rigid High High Art Fact Blended Accept Surprised Western Commerce In Fact Japanese Japanese People

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal. Alessandro Michele

Women Men Men And Women Hierarchy No Boundaries Boundaries Equal Women Are Should Violence

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside. Alissa Quart

School Awareness State Local Saw Hierarchy More Had Attended Heard Than Person Stood Where Social Far England Ever

I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy. Obviously, you would not talk informally or disrespectfully to your commanding officer. But me, in my limited Korean, I basically told my commanding officer, 'Thou shalt forget!' The Korean public thought it was really funny. Amber Liu

Funny Me You Army Culture Strict Thought Thou Hierarchy Would Shalt Talk Obviously Limited Korean Commanding Very Officer Forget Public Really Your Show Basically

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. Andrew Lansley

Health Will Hierarchy Well Empower Bureaucracy Patients Professionals

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent. Andy Kindler

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I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy. Angus Deaton

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. Barbara Ehrenreich

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Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide. Barton Gellman

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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. Ben Kingsley

Religion Class Hierarchy Rigid London Like Still Certain Certain Extent Extent

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. C. Wright Mills

Great World Wealth Hierarchy Replaced Celebrity Descent Even Publicity

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that. Callan McAuliffe

Me You People School Care Hierarchy High Nerdy Geeky High School Guys Picked Like Terms Very Middle Anything Middle Ground Then Much Really Ground Who Popular

The fact that millennials are fast at communication and expect transparency and don't feel comfortable with hierarchy gets interpreted as us being impatient or entitled. These traits are perfectly normal given that we're the first digital natives. Caroline Ghosn

It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority. Corey Stoll

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I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is a director, and above that is a producer, and above that is a writer. But on a television show or film, the whole call sheet thing and being No. 1 on a call sheet, people look to you and almost expect you to exercise this power for good or bad. Cress Williams

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The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them. Deborah Tannen

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