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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. -- Pauline Hanson
An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future. -- Strive Masiyiwa
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. -- Bruce Barton
The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all. -- Sathya Sai Baba
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. -- Susan George
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations. -- Aristide Briand
Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders. -- Errico Malatesta
[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation. -- Vladimir Putin
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?' -- Noam Chomsky
I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund. -- Cliff Richard
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. -- George Bernard Shaw
Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. -- Gijs de Vries
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. -- Arthur Middleton
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. -- Havelock Ellis
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations -- Warren G. Bennis
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it. -- Karl Radek
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. -- Abdul Kalam
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary. -- Giulio Andreotti
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. -- Thomas R. Cech
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant. -- Lord Robertson
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour -- Kofi Annan
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. -- William Robertson Smith
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. -- Gavin Bryars
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick. -- Damon Hill
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time. -- Noam Chomsky
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. -- Paul Watson
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. -- Noam Chomsky
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. -- Ricardo Semler
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. -- Bill Gates
You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. -- Keith Richards
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success. -- Stephen Covey
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. -- Robin Sharma
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The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. -- Paul Watson
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. -- Karl Jaspers
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. -- Paul Davies
Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got. -- Conor McGregor
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles. -- Robin S. Sharma
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out. -- Julian Assange
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is. -- Ricardo Semler
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn. -- Noreena Hertz
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one. -- Carne Ross
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. -- Gavyn Davies
I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from. -- Robert Winston
Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation! -- George Galloway
Customers must trust an organisation and its people. -- Tom Farmer
In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position. -- Thomas A. Stewart
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation. -- E. F. Schumacher
A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect. -- Jane Eisner
Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. -- Peter Drucker
Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. -- Guy Debord
Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation. -- B. R. Ambedkar
I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation. -- John Sculley
We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation. -- Baba Kalyani
Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard. -- Mahathir Mohamad
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why -- Frances Hesselbein
If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently. -- Carly Fiorina
I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party. -- Viktor Chernomyrdin
Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation. -- Lars Larsen
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. -- Sun Tzu
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation -- Queen Elizabeth II
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity. -- George Pell
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. -- Douglas Alexander
Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation. -- Patrick Dixon
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. -- Tariq Ramadan
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. -- Toby Young
The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money. -- S.A. Tawks
Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation. -- Mahathir Mohamad
It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations. -- Vladimir Putin
The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty. -- Martin Millar
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. -- Paul Watson
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Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. -- Carla H. Krueger
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. -- Guy Browning
It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria. -- Maajid Nawaz
Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory. -- Paul Virilio
without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition. -- Akio Morita
I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation. -- Paul Virilio
As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa. -- Bob Hawke
Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation, -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people. -- Steve Crocker
If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave. -- Edward Yourdon
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress -- Nelson Mandela
You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops. -- Peter Senge
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. -- James Black
Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation. -- John Elkann
There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan. -- S.A. Tawks
I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio. -- Christina Aguilera
Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer. -- Tim Field
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies. -- Jim Ratcliffe
I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy. -- Gemma Cairney
You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively. -- Cate Blanchett
The peoples' revolution .... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman. -- Gavyn Davies
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. -- James Buchan
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. -- Daniel Dennett
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. -- Robin Sharma
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. -- Barbara Hepworth
No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems. -- Mahathir Mohamad
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. -- Eric Holder
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer. -- Annie Lennox
We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change -- Mark Zuckerberg
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Huxley
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality. -- Hozier
Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation. -- Barack Obama
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas. -- Mark McCormack
I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people. -- Lance Armstrong

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