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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. -- Tom Peters
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. -- Potter Stewart
If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud. -- Audie Cornish
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. -- Otto Schily
Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision. -- Zig Ziglar
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. -- Maria Montessori
At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men -- Paul Collier
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
I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems. -- Dave Barry
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. -- Bill Dana
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing. -- Jasper Johns
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
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor. -- John F. Kennedy
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. -- Isabel Paterson
[for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails. -- Franco Frattini
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips. -- Ann Coulter
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. 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. -- Carl Jung
Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law. -- Edward Abbey
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. -- David Antin
Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures. -- Cindy Margolis
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. -- Christopher Bond
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. -- Temple Grandin
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one. -- Bayard Rustin
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. -- Robert Bork
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. -- Bob Barr
We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? -- Lee Child
We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. -- Chris Hadfield
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare. -- Ben Carson
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. -- Harry Browne
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. -- David Mixner
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world. -- Richard Lamm
People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise. -- Bob Barr
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
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States. -- Jan C. Ting
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. -- Mitch Kapor
The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures. -- John O. Brennan
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States. -- John Bolton
The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community. -- Rush Limbaugh
Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't. -- Chris Hadfield
I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together. -- Jonas Mekas
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. -- Kevin Mitnick
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition -- Anne Carson
We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours. -- Omar N. Bradley
Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures -- Dr. David Jones
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity. -- Richard Dawkins
We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures... -- David Rutley
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. -- James Bryant Conant
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary. -- Sigmar Polke
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
people will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures -- Daniel Simons
I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures. -- Leon Panetta
I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone. -- Dave Barry
The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines. -- Harry Wong
In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures. -- George W. Bush
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. -- Marvin Minsky
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. -- John Barton
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around. -- Dave Barry
Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence. -- Joel Fuhrman
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life -- Potter Stewart
I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'. -- John S. Pistole
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion. -- Warren Hern
Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures. -- Garry Kasparov
Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures. -- Tony Dungy
For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved. -- Friedrich Naumann
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures. -- Narendra Modi
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. -- Bergen Evans
Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law. -- Vladimir Putin
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.' -- Michel Faber
I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world. -- Benjamin Carson
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is. -- Alex Gibney
In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. -- Ken Calvert
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. -- Ken Calvert
You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures. -- Gene Robinson
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. -- Marshall McLuhan
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency. -- Buzz Aldrin
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training. -- Charles W. Pickering
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do. -- Allen W. Wood
Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. -- Sherwood Boehlert
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain. -- John Stewart Bell
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. -- George Crumb
I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow. -- Paz de la Huerta
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions. -- Haile Selassie
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures. -- Garry Kasparov
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy. -- Satoru Iwata
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? -- Dwight Schultz
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer. -- Gary Null
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date -- Taiichi Ohno
Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics postoperatively is dramatically reduced or even eliminated. -- Kristi Funk
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable. -- Phil Roe
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well. -- Clayton Christensen
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare. -- Ben Carson
I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions. -- Allen W. Wood
I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don't think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work. -- Rush Limbaugh
I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don't think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work. -- Rush Limbaugh
In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons. -- John Burroughs
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts. -- Stephen Toulmin
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers. -- Janis Karpinski
The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities. -- Peter A. Sturrock
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. -- Che Guevara

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