Supply Chain Importance Quotes & Sayings

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. — John Hawkes

[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn't yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must take countermeasures, but beyond that there is not much to say. Evolution cannot help us predict what new vaccines to manufacture because microbes evolve unpredictably. But hasn't evolution helped guide animal and plant breeding? Not very much. Most improvement in crop plants and animals occurred long before we knew anything about evolution, and came about by people following the genetic principle of 'like begets like'. Even now, as its practitioners admit, the field of quantitative genetics has been of little value in helping improve varieties. Future advances will almost certainly come from transgenics, which is not based on evolution at all.
[review of The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life, Nature 442, 983-984 (31 August 2006)] — Jerry A. Coyne

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena. — David Gross

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. — John Galt

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really. — Anne Rice

The first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun ... — Laurie R. King

I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me! — Catherynne M Valente

Home is whete you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me to be there. — Mariana Zapata

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves. — Ira Glass

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. — Alan Hirsch

Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision. — Mike Jellick

It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark. — J.D. Salinger