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Members expressed a lack of understanding about the project. They wanted to make sure we're not just...
BILL TEETS No one here has ever gone through this process before.
BILL TEETS Agribusiness and food manufacturing is big here. This project addresses challenges to their business...
BILL TEETS (I believe) southwest Ohio is more along the lines of what Toyota is looking for rather than other p...
BILL TEETS We would like it to be in Columbia City. It's not a firm and final decision, and will depend on tax ...
DICK TEETS Beams have been such a strong market that we have had no time to concentrate on railroad rail. Now w...
DICK TEETS We haven't made any formal announcement yet, but we are taking all the steps in anticipation that th...
DICK TEETS I don't see any big rush to get into Lucent.
GREG TEETS The handset market is beginning a recovery. Consumers are interested in new phones with color and di...
GREG TEETS Nokia may be a victim of its own success. They have some nice low-end phones and are not giving peop...
GREG TEETS Because of the long-term growth outlook for the company and the stability of earnings generated by t...
GREG TEETS

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
JOHN W. GARDNER

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
JOHN W. GARDNER

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
JOHN W. GARDNER

The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and inter...
JOHN W. GARDNER

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
JOHN W. FOSTER

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
JOHN W. DRAPER

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teach...
JOHN W. GARDNER

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Fr...
JOHN W. GARDNER

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced i...
JOHN W. GARDNER

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
JOHN W. FOSTER

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...
JOHN W. GARDNER

I've watched a lot of mid-career people, and Yogi Berra says you can observe a lot just by watching....
JOHN W. GARDNER

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them. . . . They achiev...
JOHN W. GARDNER

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
JOHN W. GARDNER

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and di...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives...
JOHN W. GARDNER

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
JOHN W. DRAPER

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exc...
JOHN W. FOSTER

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Rea...
JOHN W. GARDNER

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
JOHN W. GARDNER

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk fai...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above th...
JOHN W. GARDNER

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
JOHN W. FOSTER

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own dest...
JOHN W. SCOVILLE

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowe...
JOHN W. GARDNER

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments...
JOHN W. GARDNER

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselv...
JOHN W. GARDNER

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American e...
JOHN W. SNOW

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world'...
JOHN W. GARDNER

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. ...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
JOHN W. GARDNER

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
JOHN W. GARDNER

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.&#...
JOHN W. GARDNER

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a w...
JOHN W. GARDNER

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his ...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
JOHN W. GARDNER

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and lead...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
JOHN W. GARDNER

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
JOHN W. GARDNER

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
JOHN W. GARDNER

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which t...
JOHN W. GARDNER So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our ...
JOHN W. THOMPSON Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
JOHN W. DAWSON When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, an...
JOHN W. SADIQ Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
JOHN W. DIXON

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble pro...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives ...
JOHN W. GARDNER

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of afflue...
JOHN W. GARDNER To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.
JOHN W. MACKAY

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...
JOHN W. GARDNER Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
JOHN W. RAPER

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying ...
JOHN W. SNOW

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
JOHN W. GARDNER

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservati...
JOHN W. SNOW

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are ...
JOHN W. SNOW

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies...
JOHN W. SNOW

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teach...
JOHN W. GARDNER

We teach who we are
JOHN W. GARDNER

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his...
JOHN W. GARDNER

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the US. g...
JOHN W. GARDNER

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overc...
JOHN W. GARDNER

Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and...
JOHN W. GARDNER

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
JOHN W. GARDNER

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the ful...
JOHN W. GARDNER What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls a...
JOHN W. THOMPSON

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and mar...
JOHN W. SNOW Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.
JOHN W LORD I don't see it as abnormal in any way; he's just on the private end of the spectrum. But I don't thi...
JOHN W. ROWE

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...
JOHN W. GARDNER Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them wi...
JOHN W. DAWSON

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's i...
JOHN W. GARDNER There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was c...
JOHN W LORD We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal wit...
JOHN W. THOMPSON

Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of st...
JOHN W. SNOW So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very importa...
JOHN W. THOMPSON

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing th...
JOHN W. SNOW What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is...
JOHN W. THOMPSON

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respec...
JOHN W. SNOW

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to...
JOHN W. SNOW

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long...
JOHN W. SNOW Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the bet...
JOHN W. DEAN Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discover...
JOHN W. THOMPSON First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the...
JOHN W. THOMPSON

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. Th...
JOHN W. HOLT, JR.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know w...
JOHN W. HOLT, JR. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY, JR. My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed ...
JOHN W. ROGERS, JR. Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're goin...
JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and capt...
JOHN W. ROGERS, JR. The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a diffic...
JOHN W. ROGERS, JR. History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told ...
JOHN W. CAMPBELL JR. Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want t...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging ...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know w...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. Th...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and thre...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY JR. "Resource-constrained environment" [are] fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to ...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY JR. Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, m...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and thre...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. "Resource-constrained environment" [are] fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to ...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to...
GEN JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT

Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL

Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W. There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W. Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure ou...
W. EUGENE SMITH It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt t...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reve...
W. EUGENE SMITH

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. FIELDS

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot w...
GEORGE W. BUSH

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long i...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in ad...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
GEORGE W. BUSH

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. FIELDS

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm ...
W. C. FIELDS

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for th...
W. C. FIELDS

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FIELDS

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FIELDS

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. FIELDS

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDS

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.

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