#procedure

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bureaucrats #everything #never #nothing #outcomes

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#criticism #employment #first #guide #itself

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#law #london #procedures #nature

The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#aspire #care #change #decisions #given

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#before #grand #grand jury #had #i

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#cannot #change #deficit #entitlement #intended

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder. ↗

— Bob Ney

#affairs #apparently #bidder #bureaucrat #criminal

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ↗

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'. ↗

— John Pistole

#did #here #i #new #our

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ↗

— Bill Dana

#been #cats #days #difficult #had