Most business men generally are so busy coping with immediate and piecemeal matters that there is a lamentable tendency to let the 'long run' or future take care of itself. We often are so busy 'putting out fires,' so to speak, that we find it difficult to do the planning that would prevent those fires from occurring in the first place. As a prominent educator has expressed it, Americans generally 'spend so much time on things that are urgent that we have none left to spend on those that are important.'
Quotes about piecemeal (15 Quotes)
For 80 years, we've been serving the community in a piecemeal fashion through the various employers surrounding the area. We spent a lot of time prior to the new charter turning folks away because we weren't able to serve them ... because we had a rather restrictive charter.
I can't tell you exactly what a package would look like coming from this committee in the next several months. But I can tell you the chairman prefers a comprehensive national framework that will be flexible and survive into the future, as opposed to a more piecemeal approach that applies to only one or two areas.
The City Council updated its taxicab regulations in December, said Alderman Robert Reynolds, who proposed the update. We needed to clean up the cab ordinance and make it so it would take care of the citys senior citizens and other citizens, ... The cars looked awful. It was shabby and piecemeal.
Homeowners often rely on generalized information they get piecemeal from various sources, sometimes getting lost in the deluge of information maybe because they find it difficult to objectively assess loan suitability or because life's hectic pace leaves little time to sift, sort, or screen all relevant data. We're showing them that for the cost of a typical appraisal or property inspection, there's a better way. We believe that independent personalized mortgage advice and representation are services that are long overdue.
Compared to the United States, ... there is no clear message from the CDU about an individualist, market-oriented economic policy. The program is piecemeal. It's not a vision. It's a sort of muddling through. These are programs that may help give some economic benefits, but it's definitely not something that you could call a conclusive economic program.
We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
The roads that now make up the New York Central were built piecemeal from 1831 to 1853 and the organization of this company in the latter year, to consolidate eleven independent roads extending from Albany to Buffalo, finally put an end to the long debate between canals and railroads.
Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
That's what we've been working on since Dec. 22, and clearly we're very much in the game at this point. Once Knight Ridder said they weren't going to sell the newspapers piecemeal, we were in a holding pattern waiting until someone bought the whole thing.
When the 2005 Rule was announced, I made it clear that the federal governments actions placed an unfair and unnecessary burden on states that would amount to a price tag of millions of dollars and result in piecemeal management of federal forest land.
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
The way it is now, none of these piecemeal things will deal with FEMA being buried in a gigantic bureaucracy. I think we are in worse shape now than we were pre-Katrina.