Quotes
Authors
Charles Handy

"The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide."

Source : Charles Handy (2011). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, p.219, Random House

Charles Handy

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“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”
“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”
“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”
“A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.”
“There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.”
“The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.”
“For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.”
“I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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