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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems. ↗

— Michael Porter

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Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people. ↗

— Michael Porter

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There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. ↗

— Michael Porter

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So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. ↗

— Michael Porter

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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know. ↗

— Peter Porter

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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. ↗

— Peter Porter

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He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ↗

— Beilby Porteus

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

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