Karl E Weick Quotes

#1. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Karl E. Weick

#2. England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

Dasha Zhukova

#3. Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Karl E. Weick

#4. 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.

Karl E. Weick

#5. Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.' ...
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

#6. My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

Jacques Brel

#7. Waiting for the answers to questions that we cannot answer, is probably one of the hardest things to do...

Phani Kondeti

#8. The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Karl E. Weick

#9. History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

George W. Bush

#10. We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#12. There is no separation in this world. It is impossible not to be together.

Vatsal Surti

#13. Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.

Marcel Proust

#14. Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Karl E. Weick

#15. The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere.

S.J Perelman

#16. If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

Karl E. Weick

#17. To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Make every misadventure an adventure.

Alana Siegel

#19. Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

Karl E. Weick

#20. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick