Gabeta Quotes & Sayings

In many ways, the U.S. bureaucracy has moved away from the Weberian ideal of an energetic and efficient organization staffed by people chosen for their ability and technical knowledge. The system as a whole is less merit-based: rather than coming from top schools, 45 percent of recent new hires to the federal service are veterans, as mandated by Congress. And a number of surveys of the federal work force paint a depressing picture. According to the scholar Paul Light, "Federal employees appear to be more motivated by compensation than mission, ensnared in careers that cannot compete with business and nonprofits, troubled by the lack of resources to do their jobs, dissatisfied with the rewards for a job well done and the lack of consequences for a job done poorly, and unwilling to trust their own organizations. — Anonymous

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? — Hannah Harding

Christian marriage is the great example of a real and irrevocable result; and that is why it is the chief subject and centre of all our romantic writing. — G.K. Chesterton

Whatever you entertain becomes educational. — Okisha Jackson