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Quotes About Shifts

Be responsive to the day-by-day shifts in customer demand rather than relying on computer schedules and systems to track wasteful inventory.
~ Jeffrey K. Liker
One thing was certain: Rose had been wrong about the world becoming small again. Or at least it would not be the same small world it had been. Too much had changed. And amid those shifts and realignments, Anna had slipped through a crack and escaped.
~ Jennifer Egan
Not enough has been written about the treachery of middle life," the old man mused, his voice carrying over the wind. "Dante went to hell to escape it, and I've seen plenty of other men do the same, metaphorically speaking. Be patient, Dexter. Wars have a way of shifting the terrain into configurations we can't foresee, hard as we might try. This is no time for bold moves.
~ Jennifer Egan
In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But
~ Emma Donoghue
The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop .
~ Andrew Durbin
My mum is proud to have been a nurse. At the beginning, she worked a basic 44-hour week, split shifts, night shifts and rarely had a weekend off.
~ Susanna Reid
While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
~ Pat Buchanan
wrenching change seldom characterizes strategic shifts at the outlier companies
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
Most who face this dilemma will not end up dwelling in vehicles. Those who do are analogous to what biologists call an "indicator species"—sensitive organisms with the capacity to signal much larger shifts in an ecosystem.
~ Jessica Bruder
New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.
~ Howard Bloom
As a farmer's son, I am familiar with the long, mucky shifts of our dairy workers.
~ John Whaite
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.
~ Katie Leclerc
Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;
~ Alexandre Dumas
Interruptions are the spice of life.
~ Don Herold
Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.
~ David A. R. White
The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.
~ Mark Pincus
The history of transformational phenomena—the Internet, for example, or paradigm shifts in science, or the spread of a new religion—suggests that transformation happens less by arguing cogently for something new than by generating active, ongoing practices that shift a culture's experience of the basis for reality.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
four different operators in that unit, working on a shift system, each with his own characteristics," says Nigel West, a British military historian. "And invariably, quite apart from the text, there would be the preambles, and the illicit exchanges. How are you today? How's the girlfriend? What's the weather
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.
~ Andrew Charlton
The asides, as you call them, and the soliloquies, in a play, however frequent, are very poor (because unnatural) shifts of bungling authors, to make their performances intelligible to the audience.
~ Samuel Richardson
The light shifts around the dais to the scratching of the chalk on the page, each line careful, considered, the result of a singular communion between the eye and the hand.
~ Sarah Dunant
Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women (AND TO THINK OF THE GIRLFRIEND i WAS TEMPTED TO BREAK UP WITH BECAUSE SHE SLEPT TOO MUCH) i now know, they nurtured her there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her on rotation.
~ Saul Williams
Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women (and to think of the girlfriend I was tempted to break up with because she slept too much) i now know, they NURTURED here there: they slept in packs dreamt in cycles nursed her in shifts and became her ON ROTATION
~ Saul Williams