Karl E. Weick Quotes
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.
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Now as one of the signatories of the document I naturally recommend its acceptance. I do not recommend it for more than it is. Equally I do not recommend it for less than it is. In my opinion it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire and develop to, but the freedom to achieve it.
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The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
