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“Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.”
Thomas Carlyle
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
W. Edwards Deming
“In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because instead of trying something new, the bull returns to what is familiar. His comfort zone.”
Carly Fiorina
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms”
Jim Davis
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
Felix Adler
“No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.”
Oprah Winfrey
“2-in-1 is a bullshit term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.”
Mitch Hedberg
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection”
Charles Darwin
“You shouldn't have a long-term strategy anymore, because you won't be able to move fast enough.”
Orit Gadish