Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I'm pretty boring.
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Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
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Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.
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There're a lot of rules to basketball.
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I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.
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I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
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If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.
