Silo Quotes

#1. the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.

Gillian Tett

#2. Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Eric Lefkofsky

#3. Silo builds the wall in people's minds and creates the barrier in organizations' "hearts.

Pearl Zhu

#4. Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#5. Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

James MacDonald

#6. left the cafeteria and approached the silo's airlock, that great yellow door to the open world

Hugh Howey

#7. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

Greg Behrendt

#8. There are people out there so heavily specialized in wearable technology that they call shirts with networked devices built into them "wearable shirts." They're so deep into their own silo of futurism that they've forgotten how shirts work.

Warren Ellis

#9. In many ways, the cycle of violence in Silo Eighteen was no different than what took place elsewhere. Beyond being more severe, it was the same waxing and waning of the mobs, of each generation revolting against the last, a fifteen-to-twenty-year cycle of bloody upheaval. Victor

Hugh Howey

#10. Sheltering the women and the children played some part; Troy was sure of that. The women and children of Silo One had been gifted with a long sleep while the men stayed and took shifts. It removed the passion from the plans, forestalled the chance that the men might fight among themselves.

Hugh Howey

#11. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.

Hugh Howey

#12. Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other.

Cameron Sinclair

#13. What god would make so much rock below and air above and just a measly silo between?

Hugh Howey

#14. Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.

Jonathan Zittrain

#15. Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

Pearl Zhu

#16. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

Chris Wooding

#17. And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity would blow across such embers and burn this silo to the ground.

Hugh Howey

#18. Ideas cannot be limited to the confines of a silo. They need space to run around and occasionally bump into strangers.

Steve Hardy

#19. The silo was something she had always taken for granted. The priests say it had always been here, that it was lovingly created by a caring God, that everything they would ever need had been provided for. Juliette had a hard time with this story.

Hugh Howey

#20. I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

Peter De Vries

#21. The majority rejoice in the 'silo' mentality but the minority seek 'think tanks' whose advice brings significant reforms

Paul Gitwaza

#22. An employee's inability to be wrong, obsessed with their personal agenda, or complacency with the comfort of their title and paycheck often keeps them stuck in selfish politics and silo mentalities.

Angela Lynne Craig

#23. IT needs to transform from a big fat silo to the digital fit brain of a modern organization.

Pearl Zhu

#24. The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.

Hugh Howey

#25. In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Dallas Willard

#26. Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.

Pearl Zhu

#27. Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

Nate Parker

#28. The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

Simon Schama

#29. Never place a period where God's placed a comma.

Gracie Allen

#30. I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Willie Stargell

#31. Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,
Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;
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Munindra Misra