Occasionally, perhaps twice a week, he (Winston) went to a dusty, forgotten-looking office in the Ministry of Truth and did a little work, or what was called work. He had been appointed to a sub-committee of a sub-committee which had sprouted from one of the innumerable committees dealing with minor difficulties that arose in the […]
Committee Quotes
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.
You’ll find in no park or city, a monument to a committee.
If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
Wherever and whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but live in fear of […]
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
