"In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap."

-- James Surowiecki

#Cutting Quotes #Technology Quotes #Practice Quotes

“We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."”
“Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.”
“When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.”
“So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin
“Forget purpose. Itâ€™s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.”
“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change. Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

Source : "Deadly Doctors" by Betsy McCaughey, nypost.com. July 24, 2009.
“My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”
“The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.”

Source : Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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