Committee Quote by David Ogilvy

“committees can criticize, but they cannot create.”

— David Ogilvy

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

— Walter Legge

“Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.”

— Ryan Lilly

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to…

— Alvar Aalto

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

— Betsy DeVos

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time…

— Jason Epstein

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue had never been erected in honor of a critic”

— Jean Sibelius

“To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the public what…

— Edward Abbey

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are…

— Enos Mills

I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit…

— Mo Udall