Components Quotes - Page 19

• It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Investment Success, Long

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• Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Thinking, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

  Troy Polamalu

  Training, Toes, Barefoot

  Source: www.complex.com

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• A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Principles, Slavery

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

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• Visiting a dentist early in life will help keep a kid's smile healthy for years to come. We know good oral health is an important component of good overall health. That's why I'm thrilled to be able to give eligible Ontario kids access to high-quality no-cost dental services.

  Deb Matthews

  Kids, Years, Giving

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• The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

  Gary Sloan

  Machines, Safe, Belief

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• The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

  Richard Dyer

  Fun, Touching, Pieces

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• I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

  Richard Dawkins

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• All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

  Alan Carr

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Effort

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• Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Spiritual, Political, World

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• If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, Expectations, Needs

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

  Andrew Lo

  Impact, Greed, Study

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• Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

  Grant Achatz

  People, Renoir, Beckett

  Interview with Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

  Henry Rollins

  Identity, Violence, Constitution

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• Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

  Peter Dicken

  Elements, Links, Particular

  Peter Dicken (2007). “Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy”, p.17, SAGE Publications Ltd

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• Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Important, Quality

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.46, Random House

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• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Selfish, Competition, World

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

  Rob Wittman

  Quality, Way, Helping

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• If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

  Patrick Lussier

  Unique, People, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Memories, Fall

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

  H. A. Berlin

  Musical, Study, Talent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Recovery, Men, World

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• Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Rejection, Feelings

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.20, Lulu.com

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