Karl E. Weick Quotes
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I've never been a size 0.
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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.
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Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head
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I am pretty well retired, ... I run Slinger and Milwaukee and certain other shows. It's kind of like a hobby.
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The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Confusion is not an ignoble condition.
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With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
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Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
