"Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts."

-- Karl E. Weick

#Strong Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.”
“A poem round and perfect as a star.”
“Poetry is a dangerous gift ...”
“It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.”
“There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.”

Source : David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Stand up - above the crowd. Even if you've gotta shout out loud!”
“We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.”
“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”

Source : "Ig Nobels Highlight Science of a Special Kind". "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday", www.npr.org. November 24, 2006.

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