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The outside-in discipline requires that you have an explicit customer-based reason for everything you do in the marketplace. Managers need to create what I call "customer pictures," verbal descriptions of customers that highlight the key customer characteristics and make those customers come alive. Although managers never know as much about customers as they want and need to know, the outside-in discipline requires that they construct customer pictures anyway, basing the pictures on whatever hard data they have plus hypotheses and intuition.

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking.

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.