Mar 30th 2001 Lorrin L. Lee
Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future.
— Lorrin L. Lee
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Archive for March, 2001
Mar 28th 2001 Joan Didion
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want or need something … but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen … and then is when we are in bad trouble.
— Joan Didion
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Mar 27th 2001 Dr. W. Edwards Deming
A fault in the interpretation of observations, seen everywhere, is to suppose that every event (defect, mistake, accident) is attributable to someone (usually the one closest at hand), or is related to some special event. The fact is that most troubles with service and production lie in the system and not the people.
— Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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Mar 23rd 2001 Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Bacon
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Mar 22nd 2001 Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
A good architect has to finish three or four successful systems before he can begin to identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.
Corollary: You can’t generalize from a sample of one.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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Mar 18th 2001 Frederick Smith (Federal Express)
“Lieutenant, there are only three things you gotta remember: shoot, move and communicate.”
- advice given by a sergeant when he was serving in Vietnam.
— Frederick Smith (Federal Express)
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Mar 17th 2001 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate, only prisoners of their own minds.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Mar 15th 2001 Unknown
Greed and excess always end in tears for some–usually the inexperienced and last to join the party.
— Unknown
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Mar 7th 2001 Unknown
The failure of any given incentive program is due less to a glitch in that program than to the inadequacy of the psychological assumptions that ground all such plans.
— Unknown
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Mar 4th 2001 Belasco & Stayer
People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.
— Belasco & Stayer
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