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Quotes About Operating

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.
~ Eve Ensler
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.
~ Larry Ellison
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
~ Jane Campion
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
~ Paul Hawken
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.
~ Frederick Lenz
The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit.
~ Witness Lee
At all levels, people operate with many assumptions in mind—but these assumptions are rarely documented and are often in conflict between different developers.
~ David Thomas
We are already engineering the Earth's operating system by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into it every year. We're just doing it badly. Why not get good at it?
~ Jeff Goodell
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
~ Walid Jumblatt
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
~ Stewart Alsop
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
You might contract with an innovation firm such as Innosight or Strategyn to help flesh out the business parameters and operating model.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
The [living] room was as intimate as an operating room but not as welcoming.
~ Robert B. Parker
What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have cholera again. What did I tell you? [He tossed the thin one on his horns.] I told you so... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer... nothing but surgery...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.
~ Gary Zukav
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
~ Eric Hoffer
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
~ Aminatta Forna
I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called 'Little Birds,' and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That's a 35-millimeter camera. It's huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating.
~ Reed Morano
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
~ Bill Keller
Red Bull is an energy drinks company operating a team in F1, of course it doesn't sit particularly well when you are competing against iconic brands like Ferrari and Mercedes. We are happy to be perceived as a bit of a maverick.
~ Christian Horner
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
~ Robert Benchley
While operating in the background—as was his habit—and letting others do the open fighting, he was himself a principal protagonist in the conflict.
~ Robert C. Tucker
And if you are heart smart, and if you're the kind of person that is operating from the main frame of the motherboard, which is the heart, then that's the kind of person that gets more energy.
~ Dolores Cannon