"We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases."

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Source : "Management Systems" by Peter P. Schoderbek, (p. 199), 1971.

C. West Churchman

#Team Quotes #Practice Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.”
“But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One out of four kids in Lesotho has AIDS, and the idea of the charity is to help the children first fight the stigma of living with HIV and then teach them how to live with it and survive and get an education so all these children can have a normal life. When you're changing the life of so many kids - one out of four is a big number - you change the direction of an entire nation.”
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
“A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.”

Source : Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”
“From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.”

Source : "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.
“I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.”

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