What’s your joy-to-stuff-ratio?
Category: Quotes
Lots and lots of great quotes
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
– Philip K. Dick
That definition works for me :o)
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If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s not a trivial outcome, because the kind of sense that an organization makes of its thoughts and of itself has an effect on its ability to deal with change. An organization that continually sees itself in novel images, images that are permeated with diverse skills and sensitivities, thereby is equipped to deal with altered surroundings when they appear.
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
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In every substantive sense, employees of a company carry more risks than do the shareholders. Also, their contributions of knowledge, skills and entrepreneurship are typically more important than the contributions of capital by shareholders, a pure commodity that is perhaps in excess supply.
– Sumantra Ghoshal
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Truth and meaning
Here’s a thought:
Truth is something you find. Meaning is something you create.
Because a truth you’ve just created, can hardly be said to be a truth. Truth is something you find outside of yourself.
And because meaning that comes to you from outside of you does not mesure up to meaning you create yourself for yourself from what happens around you.
And it just struck me, that if the meaning you create for yourself is not based on truth it must be a flimsy and vulnerable thing indeed.
Or what do you think?
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It’s late friday night at the end of a long, hot summer week. As I push on the next liner, feeling my neck and shoulders ache, I spot one of the trainers and his buddy tiptoeing behind the parts racks with a truly magnificent weapon, a slingshot made of rubber tubing that’s so big one man holds the ends above his head and the other pulls back the cradle…
Not so long ago I was a boss and would have been considerably less amused. Now, picking up the 151st window, I watch with delight as they fire off another water balloon and it travels a good seventy-five feet down the aisle, splattering on the painted concrete floor. I am a prisoner of the line, and I am completely free, free of anyone’s expectations beyond the correct installation of this window.
– Solange de SantisSolange de Santis is a journalist who took a job in a GM car plant to try blue collar work life. She described her experience in the book Life on the line.
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The test of a first class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views in the head at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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There is a bright future for complexity, what with one thing always leading to another.
