If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
Hire for attitude. Train for skill. . . More
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.
I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, "I've got four to five hours every day that I'm going to go deal with music. " I just didn't' have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book. . . it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.
I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. . . . A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.