Ackoff Pyramid Quotes & Sayings

My master is the same as god
when he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday — Don Marquis

It was only after the conclusion, after everything was over, that the sense of reality returned, long after, in fact, when I had been able to gather the pieces of the puzzle up and put them together to see the pattern. This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principle. — Robert Penn Warren

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on. — Barry Sonnenfeld

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have no regrets. — Andrea Corr

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. — Ambrose Bierce

All women are created equal Then some become marines. — Katy Perry

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. — Mark Twain

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story. — Ashwin Sanghi

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them. — Richard Ayoade

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality. — Mika.

The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet. A dusk like that of the outer world obscured his mind as he heard the mare's hoofs clattering along the tramtrack on the Rock Road and the great can swaying and rattling behind him. — James Joyce

I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special. — Dan Fouts

As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God. — Marianne Williamson

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop. — Ludwig Von Mises