Small Groups Quotes

I am not a people person. It's not that I am shy, but I am more comfortable in an atmosphere of one-on-one. I hate crowds and parties.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

I'm a fellow that likes small parties, and the Republican Party is about the size I like.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people, that scares me.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.