"Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."

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Source : Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

Antony Jay

#Responsibility Quotes #Decision Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Sometimes I'll hear some music in my head or I'll go to the piano and mess around and come up with a tune, or be on the guitar and come up with some chords - or I'll come up with lines, or just some words, or just a sentence. It could be the title of a song. I do that all the time. I write titles of songs a lot. And sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, "Oh, this goes with that title".”
“Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.”
“Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.”
“The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price â€“ and who can tell what that price may be? â€“ in toil, suffering and blood.”
“There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
“The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that”
“I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.”

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