Quotes of Operating - somelinesforyou

“ And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: / From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: / And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border. ”

- Bible

“ We're running around too much. ”

- Mario Lemieux

“ We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? ”

- Goldie Hawn

“ I loved working with Spiro because he has the totality of colors in his performing palette. He is a singer of wonderful imagination and a real professional. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ”

- Dennis Ritchie

“ I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me. ”

- Larry Bird

“ I won't do something just for the sake of working. ”

- Juliette Binoche

“ The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. ”

- Robert Sternberg

“ Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe. ”

- Rickey Henderson

“ No, none of that stuff, though I'd like to try it sometime. Just old-school working out. ”

- Lindsay Lohan

“ Never say "oops" in the operating room. ”

- Dr. Leo Troy

“ When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system. ”

- Peter van der Linden

“ A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft should be split into two different companies. One company will have the Windows operating system and the other will count Bill Gates' money. ”

- Conor Cruise O’Brien

“ 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

“ Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped. ”

- Nathan McCall

“ Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ But when a Man's Fancy gets astride on his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense, is Kickt out of Doors; the first Proselyte he makes, is Himself, and when that is once compass'd, the Difficulty is not so great in bringing over others; a strong Delusion always operating from without, as vigorously as from within. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ I used to think that I needed to get all my motives straightened out before I could pray, really pray. I would be in some prayer group, for example, and I would examine what I had just prayed and think to myself, "How utterly foolish and self-centered; I can't pray this way!" And so I would determine never to pray again until my motives were pure… ”

- Richard J. Foster

“ I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected… ”

- Warren G. Bennis

“ There's progress. He's going to try to push it a little bit this week to find out exactly where he is. Hopefully, he'll be on the field doing some fielding and throwing. He's doing some light running. The running part is the difficult part. He's working around the clock. ”

- Dusty Baker

“ I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable… ”

- Maya Angelou

“ I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about. ”

- Andy Gibb
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