Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief thing with person fact with aesthetics knowledge with application of knowledge.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective to be allowed to do his or her job they must have authority over the budget.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

During the Cold War we gathered information by listening to the Soviets taking pictures of the Soviets and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations and you can also have your own style personality and sense of humor because now we're allowed to.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

So influenced by these advisors and this hope I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work as they had long besought me to do.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

God has never in the history of mankind allowed his name to go long offended.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play collaborate and compete share knowledge and share work than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

In my forties my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

To Republicans I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Women ought to have representatives instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

The thing is Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago government had no claim to our income. Only sales excise and tariff taxes were allowed.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.