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The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. — W. Edwards Deming
It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientiï¬c innovations we are witnessing into health… — Elias Zerhouni
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle. — Peter Rachleff
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things… — Bill Gates
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described… — Fred Hoyle
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature… — Fred Hoyle
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. — Charles R. Swindoll
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic… — George Will
There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. — Jack Kornfield
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic… — John Templeton
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and… — Michael Crichton
To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the… — Ezra Taft Benson
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. — Edward Witten
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick… — John F. Kennedy
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals… — Dalai Lama

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