"Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment."

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Source : Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

Daniel Katz

#Organization Quotes #Energy Quotes #Input Quotes

“Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.”
“I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.”
“When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.”
“Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!”
“I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?”
“Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1698). “Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney ... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author”, p.9
“I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs.”
“I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.”

Source : "NYFW: At the Burberry Acoustic Party, Tom Odell Swears He's Not Taylor Swift". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.

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