Oramos Y 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

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou

I like to express myself through the clothes that I wear. — Nayvadius Cash

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out. — Sarah Dessen

You could see just a trace of the daughter there, the way she held her shoulders back, the length of her neck. It was a crime what time did to women. — Ann Patchett

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar. — Jeffrey Eugenides