Operations Quotes - Page 4

• My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Nurse, Wife

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Keys, Focus

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• My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

  Alvin Adams

  Communication, Views, Keys

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• I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

  Syd Barrett

  Serious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

  John Boehner

  Real, War, Choices

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• The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Police, Training

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• I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Essentials, Finals

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Target, Bombs, Rooms

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• The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

  John Cage

  Purpose, Accord, Highest

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Two, Understanding

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Commitment, Buying

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, School, Government

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Moving Forward, Done

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

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• Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Prayer, Mean, Commitment

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• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  Walt Kelly

  Reality, Not Good Enough, Energy

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• You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Fishing, Law, People

  John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.

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• Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

  Fred Hollows

  Kings, Eye, Medicine

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• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

  David Bohm

  Order, Feelings, Mind

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agriculture, Long, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Long, Giving, Perspective

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

  Hideki Tojo

  Communication, Technology, Preparation

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