3 December 2020 Bob Woodward The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
3 December 2020 Eric Ries Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as ‘providing benefit to the customer’ anything else is waste.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
3 December 2020 R. D. Laing There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
3 December 2020 Ed McMahon Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
3 December 2020 Jay Chiat Second, we’re spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We’re spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
3 December 2020 Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
3 December 2020 Ella Maillart Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner You have a strange relationship with calamity when you’re a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that’s a creepy thing to do.
3 December 2020 Al Boliska Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
3 December 2020 Prince Andrew The Queen’s intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone’s in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don’t know how she does it. And she sees everything.
3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
3 December 2020 George Balanchine In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
3 December 2020 Will McDonough I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
3 December 2020 Marc Morial Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we’re planning for the future.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Renner In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
3 December 2020 Epictetus When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
3 December 2020 Quintilian As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
