Susan Sarandon Quotes

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good interview because it was showing a different aspect of a band. They don't really like each other - they work together and they kinda exist together and that's how they like it. They're like, "we didn't get into this band looking for friends."

I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help.

I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.