"The problem is never how to get new,……" — Dee Hock
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
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54 Quotes by Dee Hock
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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid…
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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
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Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at…
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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.
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People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources."…
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The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because…
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Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no…
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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular…
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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data -…
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Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you.…
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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and…
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More Archaic Quotes
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold…
— Camille Paglia
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I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the…
— Jimmy Hoffa
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural…
— H.G. Wells
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Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but…
— Guillaume Faye
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It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering…
— Gary Valentine
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and…
— Edward Abbey
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the…
— Jacques Derrida
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
— Bridget Riley
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A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution…
— Michelangelo Signorile
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As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and…
— Dolores Cannon
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A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human…
— Unknown Author
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