"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills……" — Robert Shea
"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."
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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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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals,…
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which…
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I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union…
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like…
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
— Winston Churchill
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative…
— Sven Birkerts
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We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in…
— Unknown Author
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to…
— Saul Alinsky
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
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