"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

-- John Burns

#Events Quotes #Way Quotes #Action Quotes

“So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture.”
“I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.”
“I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the - you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.”
“The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.”
“My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.”
“Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.”

Source : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (1992). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”
“I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.”
“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”

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