"Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past."

-- Joseph M. Juran

#Past Quotes #Practice Quotes #Goal Quotes

“The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.”

Source : "The NYT versus the Huffington Post: a cat fight over kitten videos" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.”
“If it's in the bin, it's public property.”
“How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.”
“Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!”

Source : Geraldine McCaughrean (2010). “Peter Pan in Scarlet”, p.97, Oxford University Press - Children
“'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.”
“If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.”
“I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.”

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