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Quotes About Pull

Lean principles focus on how to create value for the customer through systems thinking by creating constancy of purpose, embracing scientific thinking, creating flow and pull (versus push), assuring quality at the source, leading with humility, and respecting every individual.
~ Gene Kim
He pulled me like a magnet. Every female instinct I had went into overdrive.
~ Ilona Andrews
I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.
~ Irvine Welsh
I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.
~ Wes Craven
I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.
~ Mark Kirk
Love never had a stronger pull, then from Souls coming together for a joint purpose.
~ Catherine Louise Birmingham
You never know when somebody will pull you to them.
~ Charles Frazier
I meet his eyes. They are deep and almost mesmerizing. Did I say deep before? Yeah, right. That's not it. They have a pull to them, like currents, like Velcro or something, totally captivating, like when you see a convertible flipped over on the highway and there are body bags and you don't want to look but you look because you can't look, because you can't not look, because you are just riveted and . . . Stop. Just stop.
~ Carrie Jones
The wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
~ George R. R. Martin
Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.
~ Terri Guillemets
dangling from her ear. "Yeah, and I buy it from the street stall on Lex." "I don't," he said easily. "You take this back." She started to pull
~ J.D. Robb
There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
~ Caitlin Kittredge
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
~ Johnny Carson
I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
~ Tanith Lee
Anybody who has wanted me to go out there and pull some emotion out and act like we are going to get down, that's what I specialize in. That's fine. That's something that I do, and that's something that I've done over the breadth of my career. With Brock Lesnar, regardless of who he is, it was going to be no different.
~ Samoa Joe
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
~ Melissa Fumero
On a certain kind of diseased mind they exerted the same magnetic pull as they had pre-Zero, and so among a population of millions on the ring you might find one person who'd spent too much time delving into a five-thousand-year-old web archive and become infected with ideas about pre-Zero blacks that he fancied were applicable to Moirans, and so on. It was purely an intellectual curiosity and not at all a factor in real people's lives:
~ Neal Stephenson
And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled.
~ Laini Taylor
It was called ananke, this sensitivity to the pull of destiny.
~ Laini Taylor
The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity.
~ James Gleick
Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
~ Ram Dass
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
~ Junot Diaz
could feel the power of it, of her across the dream. And he knew she was seeking him out. Even in sleep he felt the pull of her, and that same impatience he'd sensed from her within his circle, within his own time. It seemed for an instant that their
~ Nora Roberts
There is a simple, but powerful, insight at the core of our theory: customers don't buy products or services; they pull them into their lives to make progress.
~ Clayton M. Christensen