Streamlined Thomas Quotes

#1. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.

Thomas J. Watson

#2. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

Steven Erikson

#3. Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing

Armistead Maupin

#4. The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. And last of all comes death.

Anacreon

#6. The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

Lights

#7. No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Benjamin Haydon

#8. Ethan seemed to revel in Carter's most hated tics. He'd set them to music. The light bounce of notes, starts and stops, of Ethan's song, it was the music of Carter's Tourette's, and Ethan had made it beautiful. He'd made Carter feel beautiful for having them.

Ryan Loveless

#9. God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so moves in the hearts of people - either Christians or non Christians, it makes no difference - that they willingly, of their own free will carry out His plans.

Jerry Bridges

#10. She tipped her head back and started laughing, and I started picturing people twerking - everyone in the limo. Quiet Luxen Dude. Rolland. Sadi. All of them bent over, butts in the air, looking like damn fools.

Jennifer L. Armentrout