Committees Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana Download Open image ““Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Committees Ideas Life Public opinion Unconventional
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” — Barnett Cocks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and… — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
“It takes a lot of commitment to sit on a committee. Only the most courageous could boldly command all that power, yet remain detached… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“If you want to attract the least imaginative minds and most lethargic people to a new idea then define your new brainstorm as a… — David H. Gustafson Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. ‘Search the parks in all your cities You’ll find no statues of committees.” — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Everything needs to be vetted by a million committees, and we’re afraid of practically everything. We’re just not willing to accept risk anymore, and… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
