Ackoff Interactive Planning Quotes & Sayings

As soon as the man had gone, Caitrina moved to stand before him, her soft feminine scent clouding his senses. Would it always be like this - this clawing need for her? The inability to think when she was near? The feeling that if he didn't take her in his arms and kiss her, he would surely die? — Monica McCarty

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world. — Italo Calvino

Order is its own reward. — Janet Morris

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him. — Andrew Pettegree

Something. Of course! he thought. He had touched the screen. It was a touch screen! The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors. Tim had never seen such a screen, but he'd read about them in magazines. — Michael Crichton

If the girl had been one of her sisters, she'd just knock her into the wall until she let go and then lecture her for the next hour about being a cry-baby girl. — Bethany K. Lovell

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive. — Karen Bass

Force without reason falls of its own weight. — Horace

Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now. — Neil Pasricha

I balked at trying antidepressants, I just couldn't see myself taking pills to try to be less of a fraud. — David Foster Wallace

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool — Phil Knight

Greedy is the one who is disappointed when he finds silver in gold mine! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien. — Shea Hembrey

But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other. — Robin McKinley