Quotes of Item - somelinesforyou

“ God is in the details. ”

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“ A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want. ”

- William Binger

“ Common sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied… ”

- John Berger

“ For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted… ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ”

- Mario Puzo

“ Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ”

- Heraclitus

“ It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ”

- John Wooden

“ Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them. ”

- William B. Given Jr.

“ In a major matter no details are small. ”

- Paul De Gondi

“ What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Now, I have not worked out the details, because I don't think it's for me to work out the details. It's for them to work out the details. ”

- George Soros

“ Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. ”

- Charles Babbage

“ The details are not the details. They make the design. ”

- Charles Eames

“ We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ”

- Reed Hundt

“ That is good which serves man is the important item, this earth is the place, and the time is now. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. ”

- Philip Crosby

“ Always be aware of any helpful item that weighs less than it's operating manual. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. ”

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“ If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. ”

- Stew Leonard

“ One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. ”

- Henry James

“ The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ The Law of Triviality… briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ”

- C. Northcote Parkinson

“ Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Dolendi modus, timendi non item. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. ”

- Alan Coren

“ Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way… ”

- Ivy Lee

“ I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors. ”

- Tom Hayden
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