Charles Handy Quotes

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Charles Handy

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Children
  • Free

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Gift

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Funny
  • YouTube
  • Vlogs

• Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Past
  • Wall
  • Advertising

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• I don't know much about morality and that, but there is this: It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

  

  John Galsworthy
  • Hurt

• Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • Law

• Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Goddess

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Character
  • Interesting

• If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Law
  • Communication
  • Effectively