Operationist Quotes

#1. To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?

Abraham Kaplan

#2. The more gaps a leader can bridge, the more significant influence she or he can make.

Pearl Zhu

#3. If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours.

Julian Barnes

#4. The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

Tony Gilroy

#5. Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief ... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Gore Vidal

#6. One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

Toni Jerrman

#7. Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

John Doerr

#8. Maybe this is madness. Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Anne Rice