#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

The study of medicine consists on the one hand in storing up in the mind an enormous number of facts, which are simply memorized without any real knowledge of their foundations, and on the other hand in learning practical skills, which have to be acquired on the principle “Don’t think, act!” Thus it is that, of all the professionals, the medical man has the least opportunity of developing the function of thinking. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#knowledge #medical-procedures #dreams

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

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#holidays #kids #lot #mail #open

Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#companies #cover #family #family values #fertility

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#afford #been #better #better mother #blessed

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

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

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout