Waves Organization Quotes & Sayings

Office reformers are pulled in two directions. They either follow Frederick Taylor (the father of scientific management) and the successive waves of management scientists who thought that with enough overhead cameras, spreadsheets, computing power, and analysis, they could "solve" the organization and its problems. Or they follow the dreamers of the 1970s and '80s, who, inspired by the cybernetic-counterculture movement, thought that by getting rid of that same organizational infrastructure, they could free workers to reach their full potential by embracing chaos, complexity, new technology, or all three. — Ray Fisman

I cannot help you. So, I will find you unworthy of help. — Matthew Desmond

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today. — Thomas Szasz

The sky is blue, the grass is green, and people are stupid."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning that you can't change any of them. — Rachael F. Heller

The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence. — Auliq Ice

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded. — Chloe Grace Moretz

No elderly person should be like an "exile" in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society. — Pope Francis

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. — Allan Sherman

You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane. — Mario Batali

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds ... — Rajneesh

Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold. — Anthony Powell