"Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on."

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Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

John Kao

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“Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.”
“In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.”
“I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.”
“It doesn't take me long to write songs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.”
“It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.”
“Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.”
“But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin

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