#organ

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it. ↗

— Karl Radek

#changed #conditions #drew #even #every

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#else #far #individuals #now #organization

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#best #best interests #corporate #ears #eyes

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#believers #metaphor #myth #organized-religion #religion

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ↗

— William Blake

#art

I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return. ↗

— Eric Snow

#best #blessed #broadcast #career #enthusiastic

Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn ↗

— Rachel Caine

#business

For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #business

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#organization #productivity #time-investment #time-management #work-life-balance

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #communication