Clergyman's

In the recipe, How can I know what I think until I see what I say, saying equates to variation, seeing equates to selection of meaning in what was said, and thinking equates to retention of an interpretation. The retained interpretation may then be imposed subsequently to interpret similar saying in order to construct cumulative understanding, test past labels for their validity, or generalize older labels to newer events.
- Karl E. Weick

To talk about sensemaking is to talk about reality as an ongoing accomplishment that takes form when people make retrospective sense of the situations in which they find themselves and their creations. There is a strong reflexive quality to this process. People make sense of things by seeing a world on which they already imposed what they believe. In other words, people discover their own inventions. This is why sensemaking can be understood as invention and interpretations understood as discovery. These are complementary ideas. If sensemaking is viewed as an act of invention, then it is also possible to argue that the artifacts it produces include language games and texts.
- Karl E. Weick

Organizations are presumed to talk to themselves over and over to find out what they are thinking.
- Karl E. Weick

Enactment is first and foremost about action in the world, and not about conceptual pictures of the world.
- Karl E. Weick