"Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break."

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Source : "The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball". Book by Scott Gray, 2006.

Bill James

#Causes Quotes #Break Quotes #Rigidity Quotes

“When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.”
“I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.”
“In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.”
“I donâ€™t know why Glenn Murray took the penalty. I suppose because he is our penalty taker.”
“The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.”
“What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.”
“Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.”
“One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable”

Source : "Jeremy Irons: prophet of doom" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.

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