Richard Pascale Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton

#3. I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

Kenneth Branagh

#4. Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

Art Spiegelman

#5. Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

Dalai Lama

#6. Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks.

Ann Voskamp

#7. Success is a huge topic that is more so based on luck.

Auliq Ice

#8. 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

#9. First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Sameh Talhamy

#10. 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

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

Richard Pascale

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

Richard Pascale

#13. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

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#15. Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Patrick McGoohan

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

Richard Pascale

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

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#18. [My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky
'the hem of heaven.

Nancy Horan

#19. I'd rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.

Lee Clow

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Hey," he said, "you won't ever meet a man who likes women better than me. They're the best thing on the planet. And I don't just mean horizontal. Women hold the world together.

Scott Turow

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

Richard Pascale

#24. I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

Richard Seymour

#25. Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

John Hutton

#26. 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