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)
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.
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
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
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)
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
Because any arrangement of squares, circles, and connecting lines has limitations in what it may portray, the organization chart is best regarded as an illustration accompanying a description of the departments, boards, bureaus...
— Bureau of Municipal Research (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1932) Philadelphia's government, 1932, an organization chart and description. p. 1
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
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
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
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).
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).
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
