#committee

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#committees #companies #greatest #greatest things #individual

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever. ↗

— Timothy West

#case #committee #complain #council #decide

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#area #being #bring #committee #create

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get #industry #jump #nobel #nobel prize

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #committees #convinced #i #i am

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#although #american #american history #attention #body

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collectives #committees #incompetency #nothingness #men

The optimum committee has no members. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#members #optimum

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them. ↗

— Gary Allan

#contracts #definitely #end #even #everything

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #group #individually #meet