"There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you."

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Source : Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”

Meredith Willson

#Sky Quotes #Bird Quotes #Saws Quotes

“The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If thatâ€™s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that itâ€™s true of what we need to teach.”
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
“There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.”
“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons donâ€™t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.”
“You have to be an outsider to write,”
“Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.”

Source : "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.
“Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”
“What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us.”

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