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Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision. -- Zig Ziglar
Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return -- Rob Pike
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. -- Alan Perlis
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. -- Maria Montessori
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. -- Thomas Sowell
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. -- Fran Lebowitz
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. -- Harry Seidler
I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems. -- Dave Barry
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. -- Renzo Piano
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. -- Potter Stewart
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. -- Bill Dana
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will. -- David Blunkett
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. -- Donella Meadows
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. -- Kingsley Amis
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. -- Elihu Root
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. -- Donna Karan
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. -- Morton Feldman
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table. -- Ehud Barak
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. -- Ludwig Quidde
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. -- Amelia Earhart
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose. -- Tamar Braxton
We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care. -- John Sculley
I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level. -- Dwyane Wade
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. -- Max Weber
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not? -- Nathan Myhrvold
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill. -- Lamar Alexander
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. -- Neil Gaiman
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow. -- Max Horkheimer
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. -- Noam Chomsky
All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure. -- Michael Foot
The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured. -- Lauren Oliver
It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure. -- Marianne Moore
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash. -- Alfred W. Crosby
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. -- George F. Kennan
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. -- Robert Smithson
Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure. -- Irwin Corey
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. -- John Irving
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse -- Samuel Shem
Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom. -- John Diefenbaker
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. -- John Rawls
Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome. -- John Rawls
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling. -- Susan Sontag
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. -- George F. Kennan
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. -- Dee Hock
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. -- Alice Sebold
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. -- Ronald Fisher
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. -- Bob McDonnell
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. -- George Bernard Shaw
With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true. -- John Henrik Clarke
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The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted. -- Mason Cooley
If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure. -- Mark Feuerstein
I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals. -- Dave Barry
Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn... -- Terry Pratchett
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure. -- Larry Dossey
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. -- Aaron Eckhart
The procedure, not yet approved in the United States or in Europe, was a form of stem cell therapy. -- Joseph M. Chiron
Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform. -- Jerome Groopman
You do realize this makes your wings even more unique." "Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure? -- Nalini Singh
In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure. -- Ann Coulter
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life -- Potter Stewart
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant. -- Rush Limbaugh
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. -- Franz Kafka
Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe. -- Abby Johnson
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Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. -- Susan Sontag
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. -- Fred Brooks
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. -- Oliver Herford
I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology. -- John Sexton
We're going to establish a procedure where people can leave the line, go outside, take care of themselves and the government's gonna pay. -- Donald Trump
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. -- Agatha Christie
This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. -- Maureen Johnson
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." -- David Brooks
I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible. -- Nancy Grace
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. -- David Brooks
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. -- Umberto Eco
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game. -- James Worthy
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away. -- Jim Butcher
My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. -- C.G. Jung
When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical. -- Anthony Fauci
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint. -- Henri Matisse
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular. -- Carl Jung
It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed? -- Wayne Dyer
Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn. -- Ludwig von Mises
... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders. -- Julia Lathrop
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. -- George Crumb
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure. -- Timothy Murphy
The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen. -- Gordon MacQuarrie
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental. -- David Galenson
Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance. -- Chris Hadfield
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure. -- J. William Fulbright
I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line. -- Bob McDonnell
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification. -- Karl Popper
Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. -- Ron Wyden
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command. -- Eoin Colfer
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down. -- E. B. White
Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better. -- Cary Grant
The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have. -- Tony Benn
Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma. -- Ralph W. Moss
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it. -- Cesar Chavez
Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish. -- Andrew Saul
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others -- Morton Feldman
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality. -- Salvador Dali
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers. -- Harry Houdini
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. -- Richard Helms
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. -- Richard Helms
It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply. -- George Pataki
To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle. -- Chris Matthews
I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say. -- Warren Buffett
In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes. -- Godfrey Hounsfield
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I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real. -- William Peter Blatty
To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today). -- Richard Wiseman
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit. -- Paul Goodman

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