"Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept."

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Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

Tom DeMarco

#Team Quotes #Games Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes

“I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre.”
“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”
“I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.”
“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”
“My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown
“I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important.... The work is about the system.”
“I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.”
“I've never been in the music industry, only acting.”

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