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• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in System, Stable, Telling

• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Protect, Lawyer

• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Oppression, Unnecessary

• Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

  Tom Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Continues, System, Rely, Antiquated, Ocean

• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  Fidel Castro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Serious, System, World

• Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, System, Law

• Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don’t kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Health

  Tags in System, Administration

• Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Political, System

• Face it, the system is rigged, and it’s rigged against us.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System

• One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

  Ella Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Process, System, Changing

• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

  Bruce Lee

  Topics in Life

  Tags in System, Athlete, Style, Living, Creativity

• So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Function, System, Damaged, Discovering, Hope, Plant

• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Topics in History

  Tags in System, Enterprise, Clear

• Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Shock, Anything, True, Mind

• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Generation, Again, Grows, Place

• There’s never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

  Shannon Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fair, System

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.

  Sam Walton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Beyond

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Political, Journalist

• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cut, Descended, Fractions, Pieces, Prices, Quoted, Spanish, Based, Two, Into, Eight, System, Worth, Dollar, Each, Been, Stock, Bit, Cent, Century