"Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete."

-- Ralph Fletcher

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“Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs”

Source : Joseph M. Juran (1988). “Juran on planning for quality”
“I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Source : John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356
“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”
“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.216, Cambridge University Press
“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”

Source : Brian L. Weiss, Amy E. Weiss (2012). “Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories”, p.13, Harper Collins
“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
“I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.”

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