Quotes about Group Members

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization. Votes: 4

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members. Votes: 3

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side. Votes: 3

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. Votes: 2

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves. Votes: 2

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. Votes: 2

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of. Votes: 2

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group. Votes: 2

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know? Votes: 2

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback. Votes: 2

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. Votes: 2

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone. Votes: 2

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. Votes: 2

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Votes: 2

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. Votes: 2

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. Votes: 2

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. Votes: 2

Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups. Votes: 2

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group. Votes: 2

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs. Votes: 2

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups. Votes: 2

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that. Votes: 2

Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters. Votes: 0

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. Votes: 0

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another. Votes: 0

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members. Votes: 0

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Votes: 0

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders. Votes: 0

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. Votes: 0

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals. Votes: 0

Big Bang is the group I want to be with till I die. I want us to be five members. Forever. Votes: 0

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations. Votes: 0

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream. Votes: 0

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. Votes: 0

To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone. Votes: 0

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. Votes: 0

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. Votes: 0

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids. Votes: 0

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform. Votes: 0

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. Votes: 0

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... Votes: 0

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent. Votes: 0

No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love? Votes: 0

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. Votes: 0

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity. Votes: 0

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing. Votes: 0

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations. Votes: 0