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"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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Personal Development
"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"
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Personal Development
"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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Personal Development
"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."
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Personal Development
"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one's clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday."
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Personal Development
"Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
Being
"The organization and the environment are in concert."
Environment
"It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it."
Science
"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."
Art
"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness."
Society
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
Research
"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
Change
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
Design
"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
Work
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
Environment
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