"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers,……" — Robert Shea
"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
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26 Quotes by Robert Shea
Robert Shea has 26 quotes on this site.
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest…
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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping…
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to…
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
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You are attached to what you attack.
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition…
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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along…
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which…
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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
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More Diverted Quotes
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention…
— Anita Brookner
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
— Emile Durkheim
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some…
— Gilbert Burnet
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Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and…
— David A. Bednar
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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings…
— Margaret Sanger
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Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith…
— Rex D. Pinegar
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It…
— Harry S. Truman
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop…
— Douglas Harding
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