"Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense"

-- Henry Mintzberg

#Common Sense Quotes #Risk Quotes #Management Quotes

“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.”
“Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at this point in our history. Let's embrace these things, make them work, and push for more, rather than denouncing them because they're 9th best (which they are).”
“For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.”
“Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.”

Source : K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”

Source : "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.
“Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.”
“...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage.”
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.”

Source : "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.

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