Bureaucratic Organization Quotes

#1. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Robert Conquest

#2. A dancer isn't great because of their technique ... they're great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

#3. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they're the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.

Shirley Hazzard

#5. The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.

Kurt Braunohler

#6. Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.

M.I.A.

#7. You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

Enid Bagnold

#8. But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint.

Jon Ronson

#9. I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that.

Marcy Kaptur

#10. My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had been love, great big waves of it, crashing ceaselessly against the rocks of life, bearing us all back to grace.

Alex George

#11. Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.

Mark Helprin

#12. I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.

Drake

#13. The most profound legacy of the dominance of bureaucratic forms of organization over the last two hundred years is that it has made this intuitive division between rational, technical means and the ultimately irrational ends to which they are put seem like common sense.

David Graeber

#14. I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Dick Bruna

#15. I actually like talking.

Denis Leary