Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
Productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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Productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.
