Sensemaking And Sensegiving Quotes & Sayings

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. — Joni Mitchell

When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience. — John Pilger

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. — Deepak Chopra

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. — Bruce Lee

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. — Doug Stanhope

When all is said and done ...
Be certain to include "YOU" ... — Vernetta Norman

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

I had to remind myself that Islam had once swept north as far as the gates of Vienna; that when the haggadah had been made, the Muslims' vast empire was the bright light of the Dark Ages, the one place where science and poetry still flourished, where Jews, tortured and killed by Christians, could find a measure of peace. — Geraldine Brooks

Nothing can be produced out of nothing. — Diogenes

What's great about having a sci-fi/fantasy show start on the web: that's a gigantic part of your demographic right there. It targets a significant part of your demographic when you deliver online. — Ryan Robbins

He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death. — Milan Kundera

Have you ever stood on a sandy beach when the tide is coming in? Felt the waves come up around your feet and suck the sand from under you. That's my life now. With every day, I feel I sink deeper into uncertainty."
p. 628 The Fool to Fitz — Robin Hobb

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons
make daiquiris. — Chris Rose