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Heaven Quote by Dee Hock

“Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.” quote by Dee Hock — Download Open image

“Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.”

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To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it…

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

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It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior…

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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for…

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We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in…

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Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

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By the time you have no difficulties in your life, you have achieved Heaven.

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I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward…

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Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and…

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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth…

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