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Quotes About Practices

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
~ Jared Diamond
Maybe he's got a plan for proving that he was a victim of unethical research practices. Who knows? I can't begin to guess his objectives but I can promise you that there is nothing you or I or modern para-pharmaceuticals can do for him. We can't fix the monsters.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
All our wisdom consists in servile prejudices. All our practices are only subjection, impediment, and constraint. Civil man is born, lives, and dies in slavery. At his birth he is sewed in swaddling clothes; at his death he is nailed in a coffin. So long as he keeps his human shape, he is enchained by our institutions.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It should not be thought, moreover, that this manner of thinking is peculiar to Catholics; it is that of every dogmatic religion in which belief is made into the essential thing rather than deeds.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
~ Peter Ustinov
Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.
~ Scott Weiss
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
~ Cherie Blair
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'
~ Tim Heidecker
A particular episteme is bound to give rise to a particular form of knowledge. Foucault called the latter a discourse, by which he meant the accumulation of concepts, practices, statements, and beliefs that were produced by a particular episteme.
~ Unknown
Their businesses were among the approximately sixty dental practices here, mainly concentrated in a three-block area, all within easy walking distance of the border gate.
~ Paul Theroux
The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
~ Tim Crouch
When institutionalizing the culture, don't just graft it blithely onto existing processes or practices. Go deeper and question whether those processes or practices themselves need improvement.
~ David Cote
the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles
~ Unknown
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
~ Narendra Modi
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
~ Mark Pagel
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.
~ Narendra Modi
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one
~ Sunday Adelaja
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
~ Annie Besant
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
~ Carlos Ghosn
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
~ Bill Gates
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
~ Azim Premji
It might be asked, are all these policies and practices necessary? Don't they interfere with the entrepreneurial spirit and stifle creativity? And cannot a business be entrepreneurial without such policies and practices? The answer is, perhaps, but neither very successfully nor for very long.
~ Peter F. Drucker