#organ

[R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#motivational

Vince and I had reached the point where there was nothing else we could think of to do with the taco wrapper, and since he refused to draw straws for the privilege of telling Deborah, I'd been forced to make the call to give her the news that we'd come up blank. And three minutes later, here she was, striding into our lab like avenging fury. "Goddamn it," she said before she was even all the way in the room, "I need something from you!" "Maybe a sedative?" Vince suggested, and for once I thought he was right on the money. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#double-dexter #humor #money

Just as no sane farmer would express disappointment because his cow did not lay eggs or hope that his cow might be induced to lay eggs, an intelligent observer should be expected to refrain from critical or hortatory discussion of the functional capacity of the United Nations that is uninformed by an accurate understanding of the realistic possibilities. We have no warrant for being hopeful, disillusioned, cynical, or fearful of the United Nations, unless the expectations that enter into our judgment bear some sensible relationship to the nature of the organization and the limitations set by the political context within which it operates. ↗

— Inis L. Claude

#political-science #united-nations #intelligence

Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important ↗

— Rachel Caine

#monica-morrell #morganville-vampires #ignorance

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#been #day #fail #i #i think

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#direction #good #good deal #know #lies

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#organization #secret #victory

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#am #been #days #disabled #environment

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#achieve #constantly #girl #girl scouts #gives