Micro Quotes

65 quotes by 64 authors

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage… — Thomas Sowell
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data… — James Surowiecki
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns,… — Juan Williams
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for… — Muhammad Yunus
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy… — Willard Wigan
Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the… — Eoin Colfer
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS… — Harlan Ellison
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass… — Simon Pegg
People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool,… — Marisha Pessl
I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me.… — Lance Armstrong
I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity… — Emily Oster
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings.… — Liya Kebede
Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death. — Laura Prepon
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile… — Tina Brown
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will… — Vaclav Klaus
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. — Jane Siberry
Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to… — Dean Karnazes

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