Brain Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Committees Form Legs Life Six
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harkness Copy Share Image
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… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises… — Stan Kelly-Bootle 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
