We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

No one can remember more than three points.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Successful people breed success.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

The cycling helmet can save your life but it doesnt look good and tends to ruin your hair.

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

I couldn't kill a fly.

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.