Conformance Quotes

#1. Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.

Peter Drucker

#2. All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Gary Hamel

#3. The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.

Bill Bryson

#4. After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Alan G. Robinson

#5. We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

Phil Crosby

#6. He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Philip Pullman

#7. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Shirley Chisholm

#9. It is false to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers which inspire them. One might be frightened of sleeplessness and yet not of a duel, of a rat and not of a lion.

Marcel Proust

#10. So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Louis Farrakhan

#11. It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

Zig Ziglar

#12. A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

Georg Hermes

#13. If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Jack McDevitt

#14. Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#15. Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

Sarah Dessen