"Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did."

-- Russell L. Ackoff

#Business Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Organization Quotes

“While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.”
“Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.”
“I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.”
“In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.”
“Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.”

Source : "Violence in the media". Canadian Forum, Volume 56, (p. 9), 1976.
“The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“I used to be squeamish a long time ago and I guess, secretly squeamish, no... but I have a huge respect for the human body and what we do and so I think it's a massive privilage for people to let you operate on them. And I used to be very "OOOH GOSH! THIS IS BAD!" but to see people bleeding and suffering is bad and I will never get over that, but being able to do something about it, means that you're no longer squeamish.”

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