Peter Drucker Quotes
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the 'hotel services' by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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When prices are stable, people can hold money for transactions and other purposes without having to worry that inflation will eat away at the real value of their money balances.
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The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
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How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.
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One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the 'hotel services' by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
