Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes

Never let something important become urgent.

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • War
  • Day
  • Fly

• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Want
  • Years

• I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Find

• I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Think
  • Political

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Universe

• Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.

  

  Logic
  • True
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Trying

• You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

  

  John Glenn
  • People
  • History
  • Reading

• I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Powerful
  • Thought
  • Kid

• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Free
  • Perfect

• I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Important
  • Realize
  • Islam

• Never let something important become urgent.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Important
  • Urgent