Negalios Quotes & Sayings

When a schedule is not met, those inclined to pass out blame are quick to point at the lowest-level workers; they reason that performance is the domain entirely of those who perform the work. They ask plaintively, "Why can't these guys ever meet their schedules?" The answer that the schedule might have been wrong in the first place only befuddles them. It's as though they believe there is no such thing as a bad schedule, only bad performances that resulted in missing the scheduled date. There is such a thing as a bad schedule. A bad schedule is one that sets a date that is subsequently missed. That's it. That's the beginning and the end of how a schedule should be judged. If the date is missed, the schedule was wrong. It doesn't matter why the date was missed. The purpose of the schedule was planning, not goal-setting. Work that is not performed according to a plan invalidates the plan. The missed schedule indicts the planners, not the workers. — Tom DeMarco

If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband. — Louise Thaden

Everybody sympathized with him so much that when he appeared in his fantastic uniform and declared himself to be Emperor of America nobody had the heart to contradict him. He was a gentle and kindly man, and fortunately found himself in the friendliest and most sentimental city in the world, the idea being 'let him be emperor if he wants to.' San Francisco played the game with him. — Isobel Field

As people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given. — Gordon B. Hinckley

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else. — Paul Reiser

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us. — John Paul Caponigro

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them. — Emma Roberts

Global warming is my personal experience. — Wang Shi

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. — Ralph Abernathy

He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. — Elizabeth Gaskell

What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c? — Joss Whedon

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before. — Anzia Yezierska

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius

Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me. — Mike Vallely