Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain and when it is important, they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
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In the whole of geophysics there is probably hardly another law of such clarity and reliability as this—that there are two preferential levels for the world’s surface which occur in alternation side by side and are represented by the continents and the ocean floors, respectively. It is therefore very surprising that scarcely anyone has tried to explain this law.
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Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain and when it is important, they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.
