Douglas Mcgregor Quotes

#1. Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

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#2. Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

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#3. SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

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#5. When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.

Amber Sealey

#6. He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Orson Scott Card

#7. I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

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#9. It is probable that one day we shall begin to draw organization charts as a series of linked groups rather than as a hierarchical structure of individual "reporting" relationships. These

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#10. See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

H. Rap Brown

#11. All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one

Charles Dickens

#12. An objective without a plan is a dream.

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#13. Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.

Aldous Huxley

#14. Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

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#15. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine Of Hippo

#16. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

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#17. The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

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