“In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.” WholeIndividualLinesResultsViewsStructureOperationsAtomsElectricQuantumEmissionsInterconnectedCoherence Author:Johannes Stark
“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.” LongSelfLastsNamesLinesResultsKnowledgeLearningLimitsDiversityOrganizationManagementResponseBottomProductivityEvolveCorporationsConsistentDucksEngineeringEfficiencyVariationRefinedDisruptivePayoffOperating SystemsStreamlining Author:Richard Pascale
“I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.” ThinkingWellsDifferentGrowthLinesResultsStudyFieldsBalanceDiversityBottomGenderMultipleBottom Line Author:Christine Lagarde
“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.” WayYearsMadeProblemWould BeFoundLinesSimpleResultsTheoryPureResearchDiscoveryWork OutInventionConstructsExperimentationDiscarded Author:Thomas A. Edison
“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.” WorldWayHumansSometimesHardFightingCoursesLinesHuman BeingsResultsSituationStruggleEnvironmentToo MuchMastersHappeningsToughDifficultyFishesRisingSwimHookHookedTrout Author:Karl A. Menninger
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.” ChildrenBookDreamValuesLinesResultsQualityInformationComfortableComputerLowsClaimsLibraryBudgetsSuspectsScholarAddictLibrarianHallucinationsInsidersAdeptAutomation Author:Clifford Stoll
“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.” PeopleThinkingShouldPersonsMadeCountryEnoughWholeSeemsEnergyLinesResultsRussiaAdministrationAtmosphereGermanyProvokingEvidentDefectsConvenienceRevoltAmazing ThingsMost AmazingExpendituresCarriagesRailwayClamor Book:AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1 Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1
“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.” KnowsBookLinesResultsReaderTruth IsCatSmellInstanceDustSpiteAutobiographyExtinctionSpectatorsDiligenceTruestDisinterestedBetween The LinesRemorseless Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.” NeedsUseWould BeOrderLinesResultsEffectsObjectsPaintingMaterialsUniversalAimWingsDrawingColourButterflyOrganizeSoupVividPatchesRealisedConstituentsSparklingFlavourDrawing And PaintingButterfly Wings Author:Jean Dubuffet
“London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.” LinesResultsCitiesBrainNew YorkComputerLondonBoundariesMessGloriousScoreVillageChicagoAngleChipsLabyrinthCircuitsStraight LinesConvoluted Author:James Geary
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.” WayChildrenSpiritualFallLinesResultsBehaviorTasksOur ChildrenFoundationRelatePrincipalTriggersElementalsBehavioral Change Author:Shefali Tsabary
“Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.” WorldShowsLinesResultsGrowingIndustryPrincessCruise Author:Gavin MacLeod
“I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.” HeartMadeLinesResults Author:George Steiner
“I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.” WayFeelsBelieveSeemsI BelieveLinesResultsConsciousDialogueAcademicTranslateFormalRight Way Author:David Bezmozgis
“I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.” FatherStrongSexUnderstandingLinesResultsOppositesRaisedGrandmotherMapsMaryGypsy Author:Cherie Lunghi
“The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.” InspirationalStrongGrowthLinesAbilityResultsRecordsGenerationsThirdsQuartersCashDiverseMarginsGlobal Business Author:Jack Welch
“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.” IfsWorldDifferentRealBeliefLinesResultsUnderstoodLogicOppositesAbsolutesMathematicsEqualityCirclesAssumptionReal WorldIdenticalStraight Lines Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.” MindGovernmentPoliticalDifficultInterestLinesResultsPartyLeaderPlayerTeamPerspectiveMembersComplicatedPracticalsPlentyUnusualPolitical PartiesToughnessTeam PlayerProducing Results Author:David Brooks
“It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.” IfsKnowsWorldKindIdeasBigsLinesInterestingResultsFantasyCreativeMarkBottomMoodRealmsPushingBottom LinePush YourselfBig QuestionsFantasy WorldsQuestion MarkUncharted Author:Ariel Pink
“Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.” PurposeProcessLinesResultsInnovationRenewal Author:John W. Gardner
“You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born.” StillsIdeasDoneWholeMomentsDesireEnergyStuffBornLinesResultsAchievePerspectiveContrastNew IdeasEvaluateGet It DoneStanding StillNew PerspectiveConcluding Author:Esther Hicks
“Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.” LightFormValuesLinesResultsToolsBroadsStrokesModelling Author:Nathan Goldstein
“Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.” IfsShouldTwoWould BeTogetherGivenChristChurchLinesResultsToo MuchTeachingPower CorruptsToo Much Power Author:Ali Sina
“The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.” MindHumansWholeAgeUniverseLinesResultsLandscapeHuman MindApocalypseBreaking DownFragmentsEarthquakesUpheavalCryptic Author:William S. Burroughs
“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.” KindIndividualChallengesLinesResultsQualitySituationTeamSkillsJudgmentPerformancesEducationalSpeedCombinationGet BetterCollectionsTeamworkMultipleResponsivenessIndividual Performance Author:John Katzenbach