System Quotes

• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Process
  • Company
  • System

• Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

  

  Brian Redman
  • Work
  • System
  • Expert

• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Thinking
  • Distance
  • Leaving

• That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers who don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Force
  • Media
  • System

• A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the state and recycling it into their private bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of that, so it's not just one person. It's a kind of web of people doing that, and that's how the system stays in power and how people stay in control.

  

  Anne Applebaum
  • Money
  • Control
  • System

• It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Interest
  • System
  • Moved

• I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Cancer

• The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Market
  • Consumers

• Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

  

  Darcy O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Today

• Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

  

  Adrian Davis
  • Sales
  • System
  • Meetings

• We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Way
  • System
  • Reform

• This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

  

  Alex Kozinski
  • Proud
  • Process
  • System

• I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then you should try to get a studio budget so that you can use all of the tools they have to get what you want. If it doesn't then you look elsewhere, or make it yourself.

  

  Andrew Neel
  • Independent
  • Budget
  • Filmmaker

• The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.

  

  Roberto Azevedo
  • Future
  • System
  • Reform

• I have great faith in the jury system.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

  

  Sung Kang
  • Belief
  • Racism
  • System

• There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • System
  • Frustration

• Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

  

  Bob Marley
  • Think
  • System
  • Victim

• They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Pride
  • System
  • Take Away

• Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

  

  Erica Jong
  • System

• We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Knowledge
  • Japanese
  • Baristu

• I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Support
  • Lucky
  • System

• For us to go out with a half-baked system just to get a few months out, I don't think would be prudent.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • System
  • Prudent

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