W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.