#rather

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bosses #capacity #choose #control #destroyed

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#conscious #conscious decision #decision #discussing #email

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles. ↗

— Jack White

#age #beautiful #digital #give #i

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them. ↗

— Shaun White

#because #give #go #i #i remember

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#beholder #eye #eye of the beholder #landscape #moves

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

#day #fail #i #know #lose

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#few #fillmore #i #night #nights