Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
If synchronized efforts are required and the contribution of one link is strongly dependent on the performance of the other links, we cannot ignore the fact that organizations are not just a pile of different links, they should be regarded as chains.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in Sophie's Choice - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
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If synchronized efforts are required and the contribution of one link is strongly dependent on the performance of the other links, we cannot ignore the fact that organizations are not just a pile of different links, they should be regarded as chains.
