Chart Quotes
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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
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The organization chart is a graphic representation of the departmentalization process. Most organization charts are positional; that is, they are organized by title and rank
— Barbara J. Stevens Barnum, Karlene M. Kerfoot (1995) The Nurse as Executive. p. 64
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
— 1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.
Illustrious Cook,Columbus of our shore, To whom was left this unknown world t'explore, Its untraced bounds on faithful chart to mark, And leave a light where all before was dark.
— 1823 Australasia.
We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
lawrence summers— Statement made at World Economic Forum — reported in Muihoong (February 1, 2000) "China trade vote a key test, says Summers", The Straits Times, p. 9.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
robert charles winthrop— Letter to Boston Commercial Club (1879).
Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter. When he talks like this you don't know what he's after.
leonard cohen— "The Stranger Song"
I NEVER saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
— p. 188-189. Time and Eternity.
You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
gloria estefan— Al Roker on the "Today Show" television program (July 25, 2007)
Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.
buckminster fuller— R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), p. 130
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul’s invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
george santayana— O World, Thou Choosest Not (1894)
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
adlai stevenson— Speech, Richmond, Virginia (20 September 1952).
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
jasper johns— Jasper Johns in: Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed; Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 104
An organization chart is merely an administrative device which enables an executive to see the men who are responsible for performing the activities of the company.
— American Management Association (1928) Annual Convention Series. Nr. 12-77. p. 247
It is not surprising that the organization chart is a frustrating instrument when used for other purposes, or when the chart is drawn to conform to some executive's ideal rather than to the observable facts of organizational life.
— Frank Baker (1969) Industrial Organizations and Health: Selected readings. Vol 1. p. 50
One reason the informal organization chart is never drawn and printed is that it's doubtful every one knows all parts of it.
— Loren B. Belker (1997) The First-time Manager. p. 41
The organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one […] as one learns, he changes the design... Management structures also need to be changed as the system changes…
— Fred Brooks (1975) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
An organization chart is a drawing depicting how the responsibilities and functions of the organization are divided up among its workers. It usually shows who reports to whom.
— A. Leslie Derbyshire (1981) Mastering Management p. 230
The organization chart is a sort of map, an aerial photograph if you like, in which all linkages between the individuals listed are complete and no disagreements or omissions occur.
— Adrian F. Furnham, Barrie Gunter (1993) Corporate assessment: auditing a company's personality. p.180
An organization chart is not the organization itself. Nevertheless, as in the case of the road map and the road system it represents, we can better understand and communicate many aspects of the organization with the benefit of a chart or diagram showing its important components and some relationships among these components.
— Herbert G. Hicks (1971) The management of organizations: a systems and human resources. p. 259
This organization chart is also the point of reference for all Job Descriptions.
— Diane M. Hoffmann (1999) Contextual Communication Organization and Training. p. 134
It is sometimes stated that the typical organization chart is undemocratic in that it emphasizes the superiority and inferiority of people and positions.
— Christine M. Koontz (1990) Essentials Of Management. p. 205
Organization charts are subject to important limitations. A chart shows only formal authority relationships and omits the many significant informal and informational relationships.
— Harold Koontz, Heinz Weihrich (2006) Essentials Of Management. p. 198
It may come as a surprise to the T-oriented analyst that the typical organization chart is a poor guide regarding the locus of power in organizations: Real power does not lie in documents and memos outlining your terms of reference and area of jurisdiction: it lies in what you can achieve in practice.
— Harold Adrian Linstone (1994) The Challenge of the 21st Century. p. 99
An organization chart is an example of a graph: the nodes are interpreted as positions in the organization, and the links, the reporting and authority lines.
— James Robert Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every (1993) The vulnerable fortress: bureaucratic organization and management. p. 202
We have already seen that rank in business is, at best, a shaky thing and that the organization chart is a poor device for showing it.
— Karol White (1963) Understanding the company organization chart. p. 73
The real key to effective project management is the project network chart. No amount of bells and whistles can compensate for an inefficiently constructed project network.
— Lee Harris in: InfoWorld, 27 okt 1986. Vol. 8, nr. 43. p. 42
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
— Letter to Boston Commercial Club (1879).
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
— Robert C. Winthrop, letter to Boston Commercial Club. June 12, 1879.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present .
— Adlai Stevenson, Speech, Richmond, Virginia (20 September 1952).
