Pascale Quotes

#1. The notion that every choice you make means that other possibilities are eliminated forever -- as a kid, I found that terrifying,' Joss recalled. 'As an adult, I still find it scary.

Amy Pascale

#2. I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Warren Spector

#3. And Joss, Gregg, Renner, and Hiddleston confirmed that there was "some Avengers affinity" for the video game Dance Dance Revolution. But

Amy Pascale

#4. The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Richard Pascale

#5. Fail better worse now.

Samuel Beckett

#6. Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Richard Pascale

#7. As long as you have peace in your heart and you can dream of world peace, one day you shall see your dream awaken among all of mankind.

Timothy Pina

#8. Is there anything in the world more useless than an afterthought?

Marty Rubin

#9. Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.

J.P. Donleavy

#10. Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

Pascale Petit

#11. Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking.

Richard Ford

#12. Everything written is at least in part fantasy.
Except maybe the national budget.
That's horror.

Mercedes Lackey

#13. People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Richard Pascale

#14. Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes
a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected
adversity
is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.

Richard Pascale

#15. With three of its fourteen episodes still unaired and two of them still in production, Firefly was canceled.

Amy Pascale

#16. Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!

Richard Pascale

#17. it is raining blessings, and we all stand under our large umbrellas. come out and let yourself be rained upon!

Pascale Kavanagh

#18. Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

Pascale Le Draoulec

#19. Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

Richard Pascale

#20. The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.

Richard Dawkins

#21. Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Richard Pascale

#22. We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

Steve Kazee

#23. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Richard Pascale

#24. What if they get hostile?" Ember asked. "I have no desire to become a Redshirt.

Bryan Fields

#25. I'm not just a Princess, I'm a warrior.

Ashley Nemer

#26. Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," in issue 4 of Literary Orphans

Joseph Patrick Pascale

#27. The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#28. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Richard Pascale

#29. Joss was lonely kid who thought that if he could just crack the code, people would understand what an awesome person he was and love him for it. As Buffy executive producer and Angel cocreator David Greenwalt said, 'If JossWhedon had had one good day in high school, we wouldn't be here'.

Amy Pascale

#30. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

Richard Pascale

#31. Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - From "Pageturner" in 365 Tomorrows

Joseph Patrick Pascale

#32. Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera ... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

#33. If you have time to judge another person's life, you're not paying attention to yours.

Ginn Pascale

#34. I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

Pascale Petit

#35. Every human being has the duty to create one timeless thing in his or her lifetime.

Iimani David

#36. Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

Richard Pascale

#37. Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

Richard Pascale

#38. I even love the smell of books.

Adriana Trigiani

#39. According to Joss [Whedon], "TV is a question, movies are an answer.

Amy Pascale