If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
People always say, "You played such a strong character. " I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak. " But "strong" to people means "real. " It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
I pay a lot attention to what I eat, but I don't have any specific slimming method. I eat organic food, a lot of fish, no meat, and I force myself to limit sugar, even if I like it a lot. It takes a lot of effort! I have to practice sport a lot because I love cakes. I've danced for a long time. I learned the discipline, how to like doing efforts, endurance. Today, I practice a physical activity at least once a day. I run or I take a hike. Sport is for me as much physical as mental.
I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm sure he will say this about other communities as well - who live in violence, who are subject of that, or who do not have the educational opportunities that every child in this country should have so they can reach their fullest potential, that that's unacceptable.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.