#pera

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#giant #mechanism #operated #pygmies

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#done #execution #getting #highest #highest standards

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me. ↗

— Charles Townshend

#cannot #does #end #expense #go

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. ↗

— Iris Chang

#capitalistic #communist #control #country #engaged

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#also #civilization #cooperation #implicit #make

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well. ↗

— Bill Ford

#desperately #diversify #frankly #how #into

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#department #desperately #foreign #foreign policy #foreign service

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#artists #attention #awful #been #being

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#diet #had #i #just #last

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#based #cooperation #correct #east #east asia