Weick Quotes

#1. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all.

Sara Raasch

#2. I took a chance, I took a shot
And you may think I'm bullet-proof, but I'm not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

Taylor Swift

#3. The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

Pete Souza

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

Karl E. Weick

#5. 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

#6. New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

Mark Batterson

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

Karl E. Weick

#8. My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley

#9. For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me ... I don't understand what there is in the American character ... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them.

Michael Parenti

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

Karl E. Weick

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

Karl E. Weick

#12. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.

Natalya Vorobyova

#13. What worried Roosevelt was the inability of ordinary people to see the danger of this proliferation of cogs and cylinders and coins in American life.23 The corrupt power of corporations was increasing at an alarming rate,

Edmund Morris

#14. The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

Oswald Chambers

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

Karl E. Weick

#16. I couldn't believe that nine-hundred and ninety-nine religions were completely false and the remaining one true. In reality, Christianity is primarily the fulfilment of the Jewish religion, but also the fulfilment of what was vaguely hinted in all the religions at their best. What

C.S. Lewis

#17. Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

Karl E. Weick

#18. To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Jules Renard

#19. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.

Michael Kedzlie

#20. I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

Sheridan Smith

#21. I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Michael Grant

#22. 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