Karl E. Weick Quotes
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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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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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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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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A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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I'm a songwriter but she Katie Melua has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie Cullum, she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her.
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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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My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.
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Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done. Brian Tracy
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Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
