Procedures Quotes

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Nobody speaks twice until everyone has had a chance to speak once

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

I had many orthopedic surgeries.

It is processes that are important.

The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

IAR is policy, always has been.

The interests of the assembly are best subserved by allowing the floor to alternate between the friends and enemies of a measure.

I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my options.

Our boys [the communists] not only attended all the union educational classes … but also took lessons in speaking from Party experts. We were also trained in the fine points of parliamentary trickery … We raised points of order, points of information, divisions of the house, objection to consideration of the question, amendments to amendments, and appeals from the decision of the chair in endless and swift succession.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.