Chart Quotes
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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
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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.
hillary clinton— Speech at the National Prayer Luncheon, reported in The New Yorker (30 May 1994)
All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that’s not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?
brian aldiss— Chapter 5 “The River: Oxford” (p. 147)
With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.
jean-baptiste say— Introduction, p. lvi
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Crabbed Age and Youth.
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"
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 Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed; Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 104
Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"
morrissey— From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
josé ortega y gasset— “Man has no nature”
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
An organization chart is, in fact, a type of flowchart. Some flowcharts that contain significantly more narrative than others are referred to as narrative flowcharts.
— Nancy J. Campbell (1998) Writing Effective Policies and Procedures. p. 143
An organization chart is a graphic presentation of the arrangement and interrelationships of the subdivisions and functions of an organization as it exists.
— Civil Service Commission, Division of Training (1943) Guide To Municipal Functional Organization Charts. New York City, p. 1; Cited in: John J. Unterkofler (1954) The functions of organization charts and manuals as tools of management. p. 15
The organization chart is a distortion of how people actually relate to each other. Each line does not represent the same process.
— Ian Cunningham (1999) The Wisdom of Strategic Learning: the self managed learning solution. p. 154
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
In practice, the organization chart is a poor way to describe the happenings in an organization and almost worthless as a way in which to prescribe the actions of managers at the various hierarchical levels. One of the weaknesses is that the organization chart is purely hierarchical; it may defer to conventional management techniques such as matrix management or 'group working' but its only proper point of reference is that of organizational hierarchy. For a complex and changing organization form... the main purpose of the traditional organization chart seems to be to decide who to blame when something goes wrong.
— Clifford Matthews (1999) Managing International Joint Ventures: The Route to Globalizing. p. 43
An organization chart is a convenient place to begin building planning models. A Note that as an organization is an object, so are the organization units. An organization chart depicts an object aggregation hierarchy
— Stephen Montgomery (1994) Object-Oriented Information Engineering. p. 62
The work of all those listed in the organization chart is impossible to acknowledge adequately.
— Ch Petit-Jean-Genaz (1992) EPAC 92: Third European Particle Accelerator Conference : Berlin. Vol 1. p. v
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
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.
Alfred Noyes— Alfred Noyes, The Two Worlds; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
martha graham— American modern dancer and choreographer
