Nepomuki Quotes & Sayings

You will not be a chip the richer. — Plautus

Creative people in particular traditionally have strained relations with systems, structures, standards, and other perceived constraints on their creative freedom. Nowhere is this clearer than in big organizations where people often complain that "the systems" kill creativity, longingly thinking back to the halcyon days when the company was young and less bureaucratic. Going back to the unstructured start-up days is not an option, however. Established companies require a different kind of innovation: they need a culture in which creativity is part of the corporate ecosystem. The key to building a creative culture is not to declare war on systems, processes, and policies, but to embrace and redesign them so they support and actively enhance innovative behavior. Managers, in other words, have to fight systems with systems, creating an architecture of innovation in their teams and departments. The primary aim is to help people behave more like innovators. — Paddy Miller

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late. — Wilfrid Sheed

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply. — Rose Wilder Lane

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time. — Anthony Goldbloom

It stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see. No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system. Yes, Captain Boomer, if you are quick enough about it, and have a mind to pawn one arm for the — Herman Melville

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. — Tom Selleck