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Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.


Karl Weick

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KARL LAGERFELD Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
KARL LAGERFELD The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
KARL LAGERFELD I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, pe...
KARL LAGERFELD In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of f...
KARL LAGERFELD I'm totally myself.
KARL LAGERFELD I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
KARL LAGERFELD What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.
KARL LAGERFELD When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 ye...
KARL LAGERFELD I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
KARL LAGERFELD I'm a working-class person, working with class.
KARL LAGERFELD Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time ...
KARL KRAUS Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
KARL KRAUS I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
KARL KRAUS Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
KARL KRAUS Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
KARL KRAUS Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
KARL KRAUS No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
KARL KRAUS How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they...
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