Units Quotes - Page 22

• The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Individual Effort, Achievement, Might

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• I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

  Martin Fowler

  Writing, Tests, Bugs

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• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

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• The real man is the one Unit Existence.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Men, Existence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.141, editionNEXT.com

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• Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

  Eric Ries

  Progress, Essentials

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• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Slavery

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• It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

  Rick Renzi

  Home, Nursing, Order

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• Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Defeated

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Quality Goods, Progress, Soil

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• We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  William Robertson Smith (2004). “The Prophets of Israel: and their place in history to the close of the Eighth Century B.C.”, p.20, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Health, Buddhism

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• Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Team, Different, Six

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• I would love to see a G-Unit reunion.

  Tony Yayo

  Reunion

  "G-Unit was better broke, tony Yayo Reveals" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2013.

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• History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Men, Different, Use

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• When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

  Tony Yayo

  Ego, Groups, Records

  "Tony Yayo says g-Unit isn't accepting game's apology" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

  Glen Mazzara

  Summer, Jobs, Nyu

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• From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

  Jimmy Reid

  Book, People, Atmosphere

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

  Johannes Stark

  Discovery, Facts, Atoms

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• Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

  Tim Cook

  Home, Joy, Important

  "5 Most Telling Takeaways From Tim Cook's Goldman Suchs Keynote" by Christina Bonnington Gear, www.wired.com. February 14, 2012.

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• A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Clients, Problem

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2001). “The Sign of the Four; Or, the Problem of the Sholtos”, p.11, iUniverse

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• For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

  Jacques Lacan

  Absence, Symbols, Uniqueness

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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

  Garrett Hardin

  Rights, Decision, Choices

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.265, Oxford University Press

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• In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Science, Eggs, Organization

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• All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Two, Community

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• What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Moon, Men

  Song: A Few Moments With Brother A. West, Album: The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, 1991

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