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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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
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The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.
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The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
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To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.
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The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
